Category: Adoption
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Falling Free, a book review
I’m just going to come right out and say it: This is the best book I’ve read all year. And I’ve read a lot of goodies. If you’ve been inspired by the prose of Francis Chan or David Platt, then Shannan Martin’s Falling Free is for you. In fact, if Ann Voskamp and Jen Hatmaker miraculously conceived a love-child, she would…
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Lip Service
Laundry is finally caught up from our recent whirlwind road-trip to Oregon. Little Man had his annual visit with the team of cleft specialists in Portland, as well as a surgical revision of his lip. Like countless others from his native China, Little Man was born with cleft lip and palate. He had his first lip surgery as an infant ensuring he could sufficiently eat…
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Adoption at Any Age
We’ve just returned from a whirlwind trip to Oregon wherein Little Man underwent a surgical revision of his cleft lip (more on this here). Between the gambit of appointments with his team of skilled pediatric specialists, we squeezed in as many visits with loved ones as possible. Home now, we are physically and emotionally exhausted but basking in…
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Back to Basics: Strategery for the Sleep-deprived Parent
I’m tired. No, for reals… woefully tired. Husband and I haven’t had a good night’s sleep in a month of Mondays, since a certain Little Someone is back to waking multiple times in the night*. It’s no secret that sleep has been a long-standing struggle under our roof. It seems in our haste to squelch re-occurring night-terrors we’ve…
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A Simple Star Wars Birthday
A long time (four years) ago, in a galaxy (country) far, far away, a young Jedi was born– one who would bring balance to the force (our family)… Little Man is four today! And officially obsessed with all things Star Wars. Heartbroken when he couldn’t join his sisters at the theater when it first released this past winter (he’s just not there…
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Awakening East – a book review
I’ve just completed the most incredible book that’s left me yearning to pack up my family and move overseas… The premise is this: Along with her husband, the author adopts her children from China. Years later, they return as a family on a radical pilgrimage of sorts, with the aim of immersing the children in their birth…
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Two Years As Five
Today marks two years since Little Man officially became our son, in China. I shared more about the significance of “family day“, as well as how we celebrated, last year, but thought I’d still share a smattering of the photos from the past twelve months that we’re required to provide China, via our adoption agency, alongside our annual…
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Monkey Business (Chinese New Year 2016)
I was feeling a twinge of guilt because we weren’t hosting a big, authentic feast to ring in Chinese New Year this evening… but then I realized that this year’s celebration has actually been more traditional: We’ve stretched the holiday into several small gatherings and good ol’ quality time with friends. In China, New Years fun lasts for fifteen days! We…
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Year of the Monkey
It’s that time of year again– Chinese [lunar] New Year! This coming Monday, the 8th, commences the Year of the Monkey. Festivities will be a touch piecemeal for our household this year –what with the Superbowl and all- but we will observe it nonetheless. Husband put the kibosh on our usual floating lanterns, citing concern about fire hazard and…
