Ethiopia

As I write this, I'm sitting at Panera immediately after Asher's 9 Month well check. I'm trying to catch a few moments to myself and process after a few hard …

And now, a fun story that will be written down in our adoption journal... While we were in Washington, D.C for the 2:1 Conference, our Dossier paperwork was in the …

I am beyond giddy to be able to announce that we are finally DTE status. What is DTE? Dossier to Ethiopia! Our paperwork process has been a rather long one …

One of the pictures I didn't share yesterday when I talked about the "My" Sight Word Book Jonah and I made together was this... Did you catch it? Look closely... …

It's funny to me how you can miss someone so much that you haven't even met yet. In these days leading up to little brother's birth, I find myself yearning …

We really struggled with this decision. I mean REALLY struggled. We originally said we were open to either gender. How could we choose? It felt like if we were to …

We had our Homestudy visit today. It went well. During the visit, our caseworker wanted to talk to Jonah and ask some questions about his thoughts on the adoption...she got …

I've been struggling a lot lately with the gravity of what God has revealed to me about orphans and the Church's role in orphan care. And frankly, it's messing me …

When I went to Relevant, I scrimped and saved to get there. Now,  I'm not usually much of a "girly-girl", but I realized that I would be seeing my online …

Ah, this is a fun story.... When we submitted ourselves to God's call to adopt, our next question was "Where, Lord? There are so many orphans. How can we possibly …