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...

(Click HERE to read the rest of the Grace-Parenting series.) The outlasting technique is my version of isolation/time-out/time-in tha...

On Day 5, we talked about Mouth Trouble and I introduced the FIRST of two good options for teaching children to use respectful words. (Cli...

Do any of your children ever struggle with not responding respectfully when you speak to them? I didn't think so. Neither do mine. :...

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...

(If you're just joining us, scroll down or click HERE to read about the GAME we're playing, see the wonderful comments and question...

ONCE UPON A TIME...... There were two daughters. One had long, blonde curls, a nurturing spirit, and a heart for Jesus. The other had ...

(If you're just jumping into this series, please consider starting HERE with Part 1 of Finding Joy in Motherhood.) How can we find JOY...

We're moving on to the GIRLS bedroom today. This room is pretty small, so we have to keep it VERY organized or the stuff overwhelms the ...

I received a question regarding this post and our girls' swimming attire. :) We do believe in modesty in our home, and try to teach m...

.....for another precious lost soul has become a child of the King of Kings. This girl, who 9 short months ago didn't know ANYTHING ab...

Many thoughts swirling in my head lately. So many that it is difficult to pull one or two out of the overflow and try to blog something cohe...