While in Uganda we met a young girl named Promise. She lived close to Tyler and Michelle, and her and her brother Moses would often stand outside the fence that surrounded their house and yell out “muzungu” (white person) or “Jeremiah” (Tyler and Michelle’s son). One day we let them in the yard to play,…
Lists of things to do before one’s next birthday are all the rage these days. I’ve been making them for years but have always been afraid to make them public for fear of the humiliation I will feel when I fail to check off each item on my list. But I today I am facing…
In the midst of this busy week we reached two months on the adoption referral waitlist. Though from my understanding we really haven’t moved up on the list at all from last month which is a bit of a bummer (do people still use the word bummer?). Despite the news of not moving up on the…
If you are familiar with the online adoption world chances are you have heard about a wonderful website that was created just 11 months ago –Give1Save1. What started out small has really turned into a movement (and it’s about to get a lot bigger in just a little while). Beth Cupitt was the brains behind…
I am expecting this week to be a little (or a LOT) crazier than normal so I thought I would start it out by sharing a post by Jen Hatmaker. If you have never read one of her books you really should (which reminds me, I’ve got to borrow 7 to you Shawna!), or you can…
spending lots of time at the park with Raeca wishing we weren’t being engulfed by forest fire smoke devouring this blog I stumbled upon (seriously, check it out!) hoping for a relaxing weekend stressing over all that I need to do next week waiting for our referral praying for dreams to be realized loving the hot weather we’ve been having noticing every “that”…
