I like adoption

I’m having a hard time knowing we’ve been home for two weeks already and Ephraim has been a part of our lives for almost two months. In some ways it seems like the time is going by so quickly and yet life with him feels so normal. He fits into our family. He was meant…

In just three months we will be celebrating Ephraim’s fourth anniversary of being a part of our family. I have no idea how time has gone so quickly. How is he not still that chubby one and a half year old who refused to say anything other than “Mama”? Honestly, there are some days where I forget that…

Tomorrow marks five years since a South African judge ruled in favor of Ephraim joining our family. I cannot believe it has been five years already! That chubby eighteen month old has grown into a hilarious six and a half year old. When we first got our referral for him one of the words they…

Today I am finally sharing our international adoption story of how we were led to adoption from South Africa. Our journey included a lot of brick walls, like an unethical agency, countries closing and more but it resulted in the sweetest boy being added to our family and it was worth all the effort, tears…

I’ve neglected to post a proper adoption update here for awhile (nothing since our road trip in October), and kind of purposely so. Friends, I’m not going to lie, things have been hard. Recently in church a lady heard me talking about our adoption and thought I was talking about our second one, because this…