Somewhere shortly after starting this blog, it became an adoption blog. Which wasn’t initially the intention, but it’s where life was, and will always be marked by. But no longer defined by. So one last adoption related post, and then we are back to the original intention. Encouragement, to be a resource (mainly of recipes), […]
Living in the In Between
People make funny comments to me all the time these days. Between four kids, usually by myself, and one of them looking a tiny bit different, we usually draw attention. I laugh most of them off. Few, if any leave me simmering on the comment for days. But recently, I had one. I was at […]
Six Months
Tomorrow we have our first post placement visit. It is absolute insanity that it has been 6 months home. It seems like a lifetime has passed in that short time. I’ve been scurrying around this afternoon trying to find all our adoption paperwork and order photos. I basically piled all the adoption paperwork and put […]
What LOVE Can Do
So as crazy and insane as our over six weeks home have been, we have also gotten a front row seat at what eight weeks of love, care and attention can do. Since the first day our daughter was basically pushed towards us in a run down random building in Shanghai, here is the way […]
A New Normal
I’ve been a bit quiet around here. We’ve been settling in and finding a new normal. I say new, because *normal* as it was, won’t ever exist again. That may seem bit harsh, but it’s one of the things I’ve learned to accept over the past few weeks, and I think subconsciously mourned before we […]
TA, CA, and Two Weeks to Go
TA came in seven or less days like we prayed it would. Day 6. July 11 family day. CA came two days later for July 19. We are traveling with two of the families we prayed we would that we met at our training in February. God has been so good. We booked all the […]
Patient in Affliction
If you’ve been following along, or are the least bit familiar with adoption, you know this journey has not been a cake walk. In fact, there were some times that were absolutely heart wrenching. So many times I have wanted to walk away from this process as it’s felt too hard. As I look back, […]
What’s in a Name? Part 2
In case you missed the explanation of our daughters first name, feel free to find out more here. On to her middle name! I’ve been following along with lots of other China moms adoption stories, and it has been such huge help!!! Especially as we learned her Chinese name and had to figure out what […]
What’s in a Name?
If you’ve known me very long, you probably know I’m a little crazy about names. I think a name is basically a self-fulfilling prophecy. Naming our kids has been a big deal, and not just the name itself. Each of our kids have different verses that go with their names that we have prayed over […]
Good News from China
February was one of the craziest months ever. My head has been spinning, I can barely catch my breath and I regularly feel panic trying to take over that I have to fight down. Some of it is the start of baseball season, some of it is our daughters birthday. Some of it’s our sons […]