This is a long, detailed description of our first adoption trip to Ukraine–a place that is so different in some ways and so alike in others. I am proud of myself for…
Email Changes Everything.
I used to check my email every day. Sometimes all day long. I used to really wonder about (–a.k.a. judge–) people who didn’t instantly respond to my messages. But then life took a…
Fingerprints, Phone Calls, and Garage Sales, Oh My!
It’s been a while since I’ve written an update on our adoption journey. I’m frankly distracted with an upcoming graduation of my oldest child. All my attention is on keeping my emotions…
A Little Update.
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…