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27 Mar

Testimony Tuesdays

  We reserve Tuesdays to share stories from  some of our grant recipients.  May you be blessed by their stories….                April 19th  marked the beginning of our family's journey to adopt a little girl with special needs from Ethiopia.  Special needs were close to our heart after our second daughter was healed from a brain tumor in utero.  We discovered the great number of orphans in Ethiopia through friends who were also adopting.             In...

20 Mar

Testimony Tuesdays

  We reserve Tuesdays to share stories from  some of our grant recipients.  May you be blessed by their stories….   We had thought about adding to our family through adoption for the past few years, but we were never sure how we would be able to do it financially.  We decided that maybe later on in life we would be ready adopt and we starting trying for our 2ndbiological child.  After trying for quite a while we found out our...

14 Mar

Playing it Safe

  In reading the parable of the talents in Matthew this week, I’ve asked myself many questions, but specifically, “Am I playing it safe?” Remember the story: the master was going on a journey and left his money in the care of his servants, according to their abilities. To one servant he gave five...

13 Mar

Testimony Tuesdays

  We reserve Tuesdays to share stories from  some of our grant recipients.  May you be blessed by their stories….    We have been married four and a half years, have a two and a half year old daughter named Lara, are on the waitlist to be matched with a toddler from Uganda, and are also pregnant with our third child.  Needless to say, life is about to get very busy for us,...

08 Mar

Change

I almost forgot to write my post for today!  Which is quite silly since I’ve been thinking about it for the past few days and had lots of good ideas.  But ‘tis the season of my life to forget stuff it seems!  Not that having 7 kids has anything to do with that. LOL! Actually this week my fragmented brain has more to do with what happened on Tuesday.  On Tuesday we put our cocker spaniel down.

06 Mar

Testimony Tuesdays

  We reserve Tuesdays to share stories from  some of our grant recipients.  May you be blessed by their stories….   It brings our hearts daily joy when we gather as a family and pray for our “new brothers,” to which our almost-two-year-old twins respond with enthusiasm “Congo!” To know and pray for by name the country in which our children are born is the culmination of years of a faith journey. It was not long after Stephen and...

01 Mar

Speaking of Attachment

  I remember the moment I met her, just 9 months ago.  She was the tiniest 3-year-old I had ever seen.  When I held her, I even thought she might break.  I silently wondered, “What happened to the healthy toddler from the referral picture?” Less than 5 minutes later, our facilitator shrieked, “Look, another one!” which meant, “Here’s your second daughter!”  And as I reached for my new 1-year-old, I was completely unaware that my emotional ‘detachment’ with my tiny...