A NOTE TO THE READER: This is one post in a series of posts that will share the story of how I came to know and grew to love my daughters who were adopted at fourteen years old, mere days before they aged out of the adoption system. It does not reflect my feelings now. […] Read more…
The Beginning
A NOTE TO THE READER: This is one post in a series of posts that will share the story of how I came to know and grew to love my daughters who were adopted at fourteen years old, mere days before they aged out of the adoption system. It does not reflect my feelings now. […] Read more…
Eliza Today
A NOTE TO THE READER: This is one post in a series of posts that will share the story of how I came to know and grew to love my daughters who were adopted at fourteen years old, mere days before they aged out of the adoption system. It does not reflect my feelings now. […] Read more…
Happy Messy Mother’s Day
I always greet Mother’s Day with mixed emotions.
I imagine lovely Mother’s Day pictures of years past with my mother, aunt and grandmother smiling proudly and all of us daughters smiling sweetly in our neatly pressed dresses and shiny white shoes, the sun shining brightly into our tightly squinting eyes, and the lilac bushes […] Read more…
Happy Easter
Eleven baskets all in a row.
Easter cookies all ready to go.
Eleven happy children with their eggs to show.
This weekend we celebrate the cross. The horrid seemingly senseless death of a God/man who’s only crime was that He came from Heaven to live among His own, those He created and loved so […] Read more…
Just As We Are
This morning a familiar worship chorus kept repeating itself in my head.
Come, now is the time to worship
Come, now is the time to give your heart
Come, just as you are to worship
Come, just as you are before your God
Come
And it really spoke to me.
Our summer felt really long.
The year of surgeries with […] Read more…
Evangeline’s Wish
So many times in life blessings come to us through the hard things.
So it is for Evangeline.
She’s had a whirlwind year with illness and surgeries, but today, she walks without crutches, has a family that loves her immeasurably, and has been granted the opportunity by the Make A Wish Foundation to make […] Read more…
Cow Appreciation Day
Yesterday was cow appreciation day at Chick-fil-A.
If you dressed as a cow from head to toe, you got your meal absolutely free.
And for a family our size, that’s a pretty decent piece of change.
We had so much fun!
The girls have been home ten months now. I am in awe of how […] Read more…
Summer Birthdays
Victoria was born on June 25th. Jonathan was born on the the 29th, and Sophia was born on the 4th of July.
So our 4th of July picnic always ends up doubling as a birthday celebration.
Jonathan and Steven enjoyed checking out the gifts.
Sophia finally got a pair of hoop earrings. She’s waited […] Read more…
Celebrating Her Life
I want to write this morning about Teresa, and how she blessed our lives in the short time we knew her.
I want to write about how Jesus shines amidst the brokenness of our lives.
And perhaps I may do that today.
But I want to share dear Ann’s post about their great loss and […] Read more…
