A couple of months ago I began a new line of items to sell as we continue to raise funds to bring our sweet baby home. I saw a similar item somewhere in internet-land and got creative with making fabric cutouts of the continent of Africa and using high-quality iron-on material to put them on [...]
It was one year ago today that I lost one of the most important people in my life, my Paw Paw June. He passed away at 11:00 on Sunday morning. That was special to us because he was a man who never wanted to miss church and it meant a great deal to know that [...]
Finally, as of today, I am no longer a mail carrier stalker. I will no longer hurry home from my errands just to check the mailbox. I will no longer be thought strange by the neighbors who see me walk to the mailbox several times before 10 am and then run out the door as [...]
This morning was our USCIS Biometrics (fingerprinting) appointment. That’s the last big hurdle in the paperchase, and now we just wait for the approval (I-171H) to come in the mail and we can submit our dossier!!! From everything I can tell, we can expect that to take anywhere between a couple of weeks and three [...]
Nearly a month ago, I took my little Claire’s pacifier away. She and her paci have had a very close relationship. In fact, she was so close to her paci that she gave it a nickname all it’s own– Uh-oh. No, really, “uh-oh” is what she called it from the moment she started talking. I [...]
I wrote a post a while back about the song Love Never Fails by Brandon Heath. Love it, love it, love it! And I want to share another song now that I love as well. This is another one that speaks to my heart every single time I hear it and that I cannot hear [...]
While we were camping this weekend, I noticed them gearing up on K-Love radio station for the Well:Done Project on Tuesday. They partner with Blood:Water Mission to provide clean drinking water to villages in sub-Saharan Africa. This caught my attention right away because while I’ve always been especially interested in projects to meet needs in [...]
I know some of you are interested in knowing where we currently are in our process, so this post is for you! A few days after mailing off our huge home study packet, it was approved by the NC director and forwarded to our social worker who called me to set up our interviews. This [...]
One of my favorite songs right now is Love Never Fails by Brandon Heath from the album What If We. Every time it comes on the radio it brings tears to my eyes. I Corinthians 13 is one of my favorite passages of Scripture and this gorgeous song always stirs my heart to meditate on [...]
Very often the first question people ask us when they hear of our adoption is, “Why Ethiopia?” It’s become a running joke between my husband and me. I really can’t blame anyone for asking. Most people still haven’t met anyone else who has adopted from Ethiopia, or even adopted transracially for that matter. The simple [...]
