The past few months have been a whirlwind for our family. The children have been finishing up school. We’ve had ballet performances, and I’ve had a lot of sewing to do. We fell very hard for sweet “Melanie,” and began working to adopt her in April, and have really been on some sort of emotional […] Read more…
Wisdom…And Questions
I used to think I knew a lot. I was confident and educated. My husband had graduated from an Ivy league graduate school. We both spoke fluent french. We both had double majored with our second majors being French, just because we enjoyed the language. I had attended La Sorbonne in Paris, and Mark, the […] Read more…
The Easter Bunny
The Easter Bunny.
Nine baskets…
all in a row…
but still missing one for our sweet daughter on the other side of the world.
We can’t wait to bring you home, Eliza BiLu.
Candy Raiders…
We are thanking Jesus tonight for His death and life and praying that someone in China will share Jesus’ love this Easter with […] Read more…
Faith Like a Mustard Seed
I’ve been thinking a lot about faith lately.
You know, the kind of faith Jesus talked about when he said if we had faith the size of a mustard seed, we could say to the mountain, “Move,” and it would move.
I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you […] Read more…
Just Sharing My Thoughts Today
Sometimes the needs of a large family just seem so diverse and vast that I’d like to hit a pause button somewhere just to slow things down a bit.
We had to make a few quick decisions for our oldest son, Andrew, this week. He is seventeen and in eleventh grade. As many of […] Read more…
Paperwork
Late at night, when the kids are asleep or settling in, and when Mark and I are really feeling the effects of our long days, here’s where you’ll find us…
knee deep in paperwork.
We are driven by a fierce love for a young girl on the other side of the world whom we have never met,
a […] Read more…
Asking For Wisdom Today
This post is directed to all of you veteran fundraisers out there.
As I have blogged before, I have postponed really moving forward into adoption for two years because of the minor little detail of money. I really tried to earn the money to begin the adoption before I began, but then I saw Bi Lu’s […] Read more…
By God’s Grace We Welcome Another…
We are so blessed and delighted to announce that we have received pre-approval from China to adopt a sweet girl who has waited far too long for a family. By the time we arrive to take her home sometime this summer, Bi Lu will have waited almost fourteen long years for a Mommy and Daddy […] Read more…
This Man
I love Thursdays around here, even though they are really long. We have a home-school co-op that lasts most of the day and then ballet, and we finally arrive home around eight, which happens to be about the same time my sweet husband gets home. Sometimes, on Thursdays, he brings pizza,
and Krispy Kreme.
My kids are […] Read more…
Happy Birthday Sweet Boy!
Today, our little David turned six.
He is such an incredible blessing to us. He came only fifteen months after Sophia, and was our seventh child. NO ONE thought I should have any more babies. That is, except for God.
Boy am I glad I trusted Him.
Happy Birthday, David! I’m so glad God gave you to me!
Blessings […] Read more…
