While we wait for the message that says its time to come HOME, we’ve been getting lots of questions about our plans for when the kids arrive.
I typed out a couple of texts and then realized that this was better suited for a whole blog post. Even if you may not know us offline, this might help you to better love another adoptive family when they are in this same season.
Since we “passed court” in February, we’ve been waiting on all of the kids’ documents to be translated into English so that we could file them with their i600 form from the US government. This is our biggest step on the U.S. immigration side of things and the one we expect to take the longest.
Continue readingToday we received the documents to solidify what God told us 11 months ago. On February 26, we “passed court” in DRC and the beautiful children we have been in love with for so long legally became our son and … Continue reading
My sister Anna was born with a very rare genetic disorder called Alagille Syndrome (ALGS). There are only about 8,000 cases of ALGS in the United States and only a couple of hospitals that treat it. For the past four years, Anna has … Continue reading
How blessed are we to even worry about things like this?! How lucky are we to have turned our overabundance of food into a “problem” we bicker about?
Continue readingOctober 7 would be exactly 6 months from the day we first saw the faces of our beautiful children. From the start, I told myself we could submit that big packet of papers (called a dossier) in 6 months. But if you break down just what we were trying to accomplish, 6 months is no time at all.
Continue readingFor the past few weeks, my feeds have been full of posts from exhausted and overwhelmed stock show moms in the midst of their county and state fairs. They’re sharing the good, the bad and the messy from their weeks. … Continue reading
When we started sharing the news of our adoption, we realized we were answering the same questions over and over again. I complied the most common questions into one post so that we can refer folks to one simple place … Continue reading
As the pages of the adoption application slid through the scanner, I felt that heaviness lifting and being replaced with peace. We had spent a full week agonizing over what God was calling us to do because it seemed so crazy, so illogical. But in that moment, we both felt such confidence in answering His call. Most of all, we were overwhelmed with the love we have for those two precious faces we knew only through photos.
Continue readingBeing able to baby wear on the farm has allowed me to play a more active roll. It allows my son to safely be a part of nearly everything I do on the farm or at a livestock show. Our baby carriers have been a game changer!
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