What a special week celebrating our people and all that we have for which to be thankful. Time is truly the best gift.❤
Category: Holiday
Hardness isn’t the standard by which we judge the rightness of our path.
Married to an adoptee, adoption has always been on the table. One sunny warm afternoon on a business trip to San Diego many years ago, we took a day visit to Tijuana. I was holding my bright blonde three year-old’s hand, and carrying my four month-old in a baby carrier safely against my chest. I … Continue reading Hardness isn’t the standard by which we judge the rightness of our path.
Are my birth parents aliens or dinosaurs?
Happy birthday to the smartest, sweetest, most humorous nine-year old I know! To the boy who said to Dan and I last year, “Please! I want to adopt a brother so he can have a family like me”. To the one who once asked me if his birth parents were aliens or dinosaurs (because he … Continue reading Are my birth parents aliens or dinosaurs?
Happy Birthday, Jesus!
Happy Birthday, Jesus - we baked our @riverscrossing birthday cake which our three year old was given as a take home from Sunday school. We told the humble, timeless story of our Savior’s birth to our five kids again, clanking around the ceramic figures in the nativity display on the ottoman, with the air conditioning … Continue reading Happy Birthday, Jesus!
Proud of Mom
Did one thing I thought I’d never do again today….again…went to kindergarten to celebrate Christmas with my sweet new five year old. Tears come when I think about how proud he was of his mom today in front of his friends, and how he kissed me on the cheek three different times. It’s amazing the … Continue reading Proud of Mom