I'm trying to get caught up on the blog, so decided to write this while I have pictures loading to my computer. So…bathrooms. Public ...

If you're on my Facebook, you know that the kids and I have been really sick. The kids are running high fevers and I have tonsillitis…a...

I mentioned in a previous posts that I have concerns about Audrey's c-spine stability. She has periods of time where she is completely ...

I'm not sleeping well because there is really no room for me, but the reason makes it all worth while!

Its still yesterday for you in the US. Thursday. But its tomorrow for me in Serbia. Friday. This post is about my yesterday and your today....

Yesterday Audrey paid a visit to hour hotel room. We were lucky enough to keep her for most of the day.

I normally have a list of specialists for us to see when we bring a new family member home. After our first few days together I start to pr...

Earlier when I posted Audrey's picture, I could only get internet on my phone and I hate typing on it. So…here are a few pictures and t...

The other part of my meeting to day involved Axel. There are only a couple of other kids who have ever come back to Serbia after their adop...

Today was the day of our meeting with the Serbian  Ministry Adoption Unit. For those new to the Serbian process, this is the first step of ...

Axel was adopted in December 2010. Four months later, in May, 2011, I was able to return to Serbia to meet Axel's birth family. They re...

This is my seventh trip to Serbia. Every time I try so hard to do it "right", and get on Serbia time quickly. I still don't h...

It was a long, but mostly uneventful trip! Our first flight was delayed because the President came to visit MN and, you know, the arrival a...

Every stitch of laundry is done.  The beds have clean linens. Four different schools have everything they might need while I'm gon...

YOU DID IT!!! You have each played a HUGE role in helping us get J home! Whether you contributed $5, $10, $100 or more, each of you helped ...

Whenever I travel, weird stuff happens. In 2010, at the end of my very first trip, I sat in a hotel restaurant in Bulgaria, enjoying my b...

We're down to just nine days before I leave. J's bag has been packed for a week or so. This weekend I got the guest bedroom strai...

That's right! Just fourteen more days for us to be sitting on a plane bound for Serbia to meet our girl! I can't even begin to...

Do you know what I just did? I just packed J's suitcase. Yes. Yes I did. Why when there are 20 days to go? Because Abel and ...