I’m a few days back from our Utah trip, and that’s a few days I’ve spent wishing I was still on the West Coast. I love the East Coast, and she definitely has better cities; but when it comes to the wild west and it’s landscape? It seriously wrecks me every time. The last two […]
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 […]
Sundays in the City
We live in the ‘burbs. It breaks my heart a little bit to be out aways from the city, but with 4 kids…it is what it is. Which is part of why whenever I can get away, I like the bright lights and fast action. We’ve had the opportunity to bum around lots of cities […]
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 […]
Brazil Culture Night
My kiddos just left me for their first day of school. One starting kindergarten, one in third grade, and one starting middle school. So many feels. Instead of thinking on it too much, I’m getting crap done. Like the 10 loads of laundry folded. And the remnants of our China trip I still haven’t completely […]
The Olympics are Here!
I get a little excited about the Olympics…it combines so many of my favorite things; cultures, community, and competition! This year we are celebrating even bigger than the last time. Mainly, because my kids are two years older and get it even more than before. And two years can make a big difference in comprehension […]
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 […]
He Redeems
My first experience with hospitals that I vividly recall was going to visit my grandmother after she had open heart surgery. My adolescent self felt so intimidated and scared by all the machines and hoses and cords. She was still intubated, and couldn’t speak, just laid there lifeless. A vivacious woman now completely immobilized for […]
Feasting and Fasting
In her latest book, Savor, Shauna Niequist talks about Feasting and Fasting: “I’m learning, slowly, a rhythm of feasting and fasting that brings a rich cadence to my year. I use the word fasting loosely, as an opposite term to feasting-permission and discipline, necessary slides back and forth along the continuum of how we feed […]
Expect, Equip, Encourage
*crickets* Yeah…I’m still here. I think with all the insanity that was during the paper process of adoption, I’ve needed some time to recover. I’ve been getting life back in order and doing things that went neglected for 3 months…like dusting. Plus I basically live at the baseball fields right now. I think baseball applies […]