I’m so sorry it has taken me so long to update you all on our adoption progress. I guess it’s because it hardly feels like progress. Our home study is nearly complete….
Providence.
The local community college sends us a catalog of their continuing education classes. This catalog always goes the way of the local phone book that gets delivered to my front door–straight into…
To Live Out The Gospel.
A month has passed since we cried and hugged and said goodbye to two great boys and sent them on a plane back to their homeland. Not a day has gone by that…
Farewell! A word that must be.
Farewell! a word that must be, and hath been— A sound which makes us linger;—yet—farewell! ~Lord Byron We arrived at Chicago O’Hare at 2:00 PM and the boys were taken through security…
Agony of Parting.
“Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.”–George Eliot Just a typical Road Trip so far: music, reading, sleeping, and card games. But with less than…
Final Countdown.
Most of you aren’t up right now to read this, but naturally, I can’t sleep. After 4 weeks, tomorrow we bring our Eastern European friends back to the airport. They have reassured…
Open Wide & Say, “Awww!”
I have been dreading this week. This was the week that the boys would be visiting the dentist. I have heard horror stories of the multiple-thousands-of-dollars’ worth of work that some of…
Photo Blitz.
First of all, I would like to give a shoutout to Dr. Kimberly Cruise and the staff at the 10th Street Iowa Eye Care. They took such good care of the boys…
The Gospel According to Seuss.
Traditions are big for our family. So even though our family is enhanced with two extras this year, our Christmas celebrations continued as usual. We explained to the boys that the final…
I love Jesus. I believe Jesus. Jesus changed my life.
Those words are embossed on three bracelets that O. wears. On this very holy day, as you are tempted to rush around to buy one more, rush one more, stress over one more…