So the person who was supposed to show up to the important meeting on the other side of the world today did not show up! This is a GOOD THI...

Thanks for sharing this with me tonight. How perfect.

Picture a cliff, of the Grand Canyon variety. I stand with my toes at the very edge of it, looking down at the depths of the valley below....

As in weeks past, this week will mark yet another decision for Ianna. When I got the email I freaked out a teeny, eensy, weensie bit. My d...

In the last couple of days, a couple different people have emailed me privately to ask how they can donate to our adoption fund through Reec...

What does it  mean when us bloggers refer to a child who is "in danger of being transferred"? It countries in Eastern Europe, that...

Copied from a public news website ,     A girl plays in a center for the disabled in Kulina, southern Serbia, Thursday, Nov. 15, 2007. The...

I am feeling so restless. I'm done gathering documents. On Monday or so we'll have the draft of the homestudy report to review, th...

Yulia is living on borrowed time . My friend is doing an Ipad give away to contribute to a grant fund to get Yulia into a family. Maybe YOU ...

Last night I kept having dreams that Dean and I had children we kept forgetting that we had committed to adopting! We'd go get Ianna, on...

Today God worked one of those miracles we were talking about. Not one for my family, but for a little boy on the other side of the world. On...

I know God can do anything. ANYTHING. a.n.y.t.h.i.n.g. There is an entire book full of miracles that He performed, and I, personally, ha...

Homestudy visit is DONE! Is it a good or a bad thing when the social worker says, "Wow, your family is really interesting!" I...

Tomorrow is our home visit! If you've been reading my facebook status updates, you know I'm feeling a little stressed out lately.  W...

Ok, this is NOT the picture you were waiting for, but it was a good teaser, wasn't it? Yeah, well it's the same type of teaser I got...

I think most adoptive parents will say that at various points throughout the process they hit some valleys. Times where they just felt not o...

Today it all feels hopeless, just hopeless. And yet how can I have so little hope when everything God has said and done in the last 5 months...

There is nothing to report because our family profile was not submitted. ............Insert long dramatic sigh here................... I...

"But if we hope for what is still unseen by us, we wait for it with patience and composure." Romans 8:25 I am working so hard o...

LOOK AT WHAT GOD HAS DONE FOR AARON!!!! Never again will we call him the "Little Boy Lost"! Aaron has a forever family now! PRAIS...