Adoption was always in the plan for building our large family. We adopted children 6 and 9 (both newborns exposed to drugs and alcohol in utero) and three teens from Liberia, West Africa. It has been a wild, rocky ride, but we feel very blessed with our large family.
This post was hard to write. God is pushing me to deeper levels of faith that have me searching the scripture and clinging to His words. Nice, Christian Platitudes Aren’t Enough When Chuck and I set out to adopt in 2001 we had one objective only, to offer a home to a child who needed…
I recently shared the article On Adoption, Christians Should Put Up or Shut Up on my personal Facebook page. I wrote, “I’ve said this for years. Unless you have adopted or are actively helping other adoptive families, keep your mouth shut.” This led to a conversation in the comments where I said, “I can think…
Yesterday found me in a very odd situation. Enoch and Kalina headed to their homeschool math class and Chuck took the six younger kids up to Mt. Baker to play in the snow. I was home. Alone. So I did what any awesome mom would do…I cleaned the kitchen, did laundry and then settled…
Do Bedwetting Alarms Work? Our family, unfortunately, has vast experience with bedwetting. When our oldest was eight and still wetting the bed every single night, we decided it was time to take action. Not only did our oldest wet the bed, but all of her younger siblings did as well. And our kids didn’t just…
Post includes affiliate links {originally posted in 2011} I recently read the book No Biking in the House Without a Helmet. It is about a family with four biological children, who then end up adopting five more children. All of the children were older (from age 4 to teens), four from Ethiopia. When I…
Oh Avi…such a beautiful girl. For those of you who are new here, Avi joined our family when she was three days old. It’s an amazing story which I just moved under the Adoption Stories heading (it was originally posted on my old blog). You may want to take a moment to go read it….
My sweet Jubilee was born ten years ago exactly one week before Thanksgiving (though her birthday was on a Tuesday this year). She was our seventh child, born in our seventh year of marriage at exactly seven pm weighing in at exactly seven pounds! She was born with a head full of dark hair and…
Ten years ago a baby boy was born in Seattle and placed for adoption. By God’s grace, he was placed in our home four weeks later. While it’s true that Mordecai struggles every day with the effects of the choices he birth mom made while she was pregnant with him, he is not the sum…
Boaz is eighteen. Eighteen…can you believe it? He and Keziah came home yesterday so we could celebrate. It doesn’t seem like so very long ago that these two young men… …were just two little boys from different parts of the world just getting to know each other. This is the only photo I snapped of…
This little guy was my running partner yesterday. He was awesome! Except for the fact that he can out run me… Thursday afternoon I noticed one of my teeth felt a bit odd…I touched it with my tongue, then my finger and found it a bit loose. This bicuspid happens to be a crown on…