Archive | December, 2011

On Deck!

Posted on 28. Dec, 2011 by in Adoption Process, Christianity/Faith, International Adoption

Four days before Christmas we got an email from our family coordinator at our agency, AWAA, letting us know we are now on deck! Honestly, this doesn’t change much for us since we’re in the yahoo group for our agency’s Ethiopia families and already knew (from tracking the “unofficial” list kept by all of us [...]

Santa Is {Not} Coming To Town

Posted on 23. Dec, 2011 by in Christianity/Faith, Family Life, Parenting, Uncategorized

I remember it like it was yesterday.  I was standing at my cubby in my first grade classroom, hanging up my denim jacket with the yellow lining, chatting excitedly with my best friend about my Christmas wishlist when she dropped a bomb on my world and announced that there was no Santa.  I still remember [...]

Reclaiming Christmas

Posted on 08. Dec, 2011 by in Christianity/Faith, Family Life, Parenting, Uncategorized

I just wonder what the wise men of old would’ve thought of us when they brought their sacrificial gifts to the little Lord Jesus and knelt before him?  What would Mary have said of the way we celebrate the birth of her Son, the Savior of the World, with crazed shopping and wrapping of piles [...]