I closed this blog down a few months ago. I found an online attack on me and my family, and truthfully, I just wanted to hide. Maybe tha...

I wish that parenting came with a perfect "how to" handbook. I REALLY wish adoptive parenting came with that handbook. :) I'...

Notice anything different from my  last post about Johanna? She is HOME. After 5 months in residential treatment, and some horribl...

1. You will fall in love with a picture and a child a world away , and you will lay awake at night, thinking of this child and wondering a...

Dearest Eliana Rose, Today, February 13th, 2013, is your eleventh birthday. I remember the moment I found out we were expecting you. It ...

During our family Christmas photo shoot last week, we posed the three toddlers alone for some shots. The out-takes tell a story all the...

Dearest Friends and Family, Thank you to those of you who prayed and encouraged our hearts last week. We faced some really big decis...

---Brent posted this on his Facebook status this afternoon. It stirred my heart, reminding me of the why behind what we're doing. I want...

In this post I finally began blogging about some of the harder aspects of Johanna's adoption. I started with Birth Order and the affe...

Not everything I write about is easy to share .   In fact, some of it is very personal and therefore very difficult to talk about in su...

November is National Adoption Awareness month, in case you didn't know. That means I have an excuse a reason to post even more about o...

  One year ago in China, a heartbroken foster mama and daddy said good-bye to a spunky little sparkly eyed baby. The baby they'd ...