Category: Posts
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Provision & Preparation
This morning we received the astounding news that we were awarded yet another adoption grant! We are immensely grateful to the fine folks at A Child Waits Foundation for blessing our family with a generous contribution towards our remaining in-country adoption costs. A thoughtful friend popped by with a willing ear, wise advice, and an…
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The Final Countdown
9 more days. We are counting down with bated breath. His bed is made, car seat installed. I’m beginning to deep clean every surface of our house and freeze meals in preparation for our return with New Brother. Every time I make dinner, I prepare a double batch and freeze half– just like I did…
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Preparing For Your Homestudy
Dear friends, who are in many ways our family here in Montana, had their first Homestudy visit yesterday. In fielding their anxious preparatory questions beforehand, and celebrating with them on the phone afterwards, I kind of relived our own Homestudy experience from a year ago. A Homestudy is a comprehensive report compiled by a local,…
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Ode to a Vitamix
Oh Vitamix, how I adore and covet thee. Truly, you are sovereign over all other kitchen appliances. I have a serious case of blender envy. All the cool kids have a Vitamix blender. Even Handsome Husband’s Grandpapa has one. Would it be terribly inappropriate for me to ask him to will it to me? Too forward?…
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Itinerary
Forgive my brevity, but I just finished applying for four international visas and my brain is absolute mush. Our flights are booked, we’re headed to China! March 26th. 16 days… not that I’m counting, or anything. After a quick puddle-jump to Seattle, we board our 12 hour international flight to Beijing. Please pray for our…
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Staging Your Home To Sell
In the midst of all our heading-to-China-to-bring-home-our-son excitement, we’re also getting a house ready to put on the market. Weary of being long-distance landlords, we’re finally selling our property in Oregon. My colleagues there report that the market has made a nice come-back since our exodus a year and a half ago, and we are…
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Though She Be But Little
Our first-born’s birthday isn’t until mid-April, but once we return from China it will be right around the corner. Since I’m an admitted Over-The-Top-Birthday-Party-Planner, I figured it was time to officially get my party ducks in a row. We’ve had a theme in mind for her for over a year: our typical extravaganza of a…
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Travel Approval
I will praise you, O Lord, with my whole heart; I will tell of all Your marvelous works. I will be glad and rejoice in You; I will sing praise to Your name, O Most High. Psalms 9:1-2 We just got our Travel Approval, our official invitation to head to China and pick up our…
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Jumping to Assumptions
In high-school, my loud, liberal best-friend proudly displayed a large button on her Jansport backpack, which plainly read, “EXAMINE YOUR ASSUMPTIONS.” Isn’t that just the best? After all, I’m still talking about it, a few eighteen years later. My parents went a more direct route, repeatedly admonishing me to, “Never assume… it makes an a** out…
