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…
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…
Princess Livi
Olivia really believes she’s a princess.
A week or so ago, I was getting ready for the day, and Olivia said, “Mommy, do princesses get married?”
I responded, “Of course they do. They marry their prince.”
A few minutes later, she went to her daddy who had yet to climb out of bed, and in the […] Read more…
Costa Rica
Mark, Andrew, and Evan just got home late Saturday night from a mission trip to Costa Rica.
And Daddy came home bearing gifts for all.
I don’t have pictures of their departure or return because the night before the morning they were leaving, I ended up in the Children’s Hospital ER with Steven for kidney […] Read more…
ECMO
From Teresa’s mother…
ECMO
This morning Teresa came out of surgery with her right ventricle struggling but not too bad. A few hours later she went into full cardiac arrest and had cpr performed for over thirty minutes. She was put on life support (ECMO).’ Her left and right ventricle are not functioning at all. At this […] Read more…
