Every month, Anne over at Modern Mrs. Darcy hosts a Twitterature Link-up, “a place to share short, casual reviews of books…” I love gathering all the recommendations! So far, I’m off to a good start on my Reading Goals for 2014! Here’s what I read this Month: The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared This is a fantastic…
The snow had fallen as we slept and we woke to roads and trees that reflected the sky’s night work. Two months shy of two years old and thirty-two weeks pregnant; it was just him and me. It was December in Wisconsin. The wind was bitter, but there were long caged-in, pent-up movements that needed…
Last week I talked a little about how not every believer is necessarily called to adopt; but ALL of us are called to engage in the caring for the orphan and widow (and everything in between). So today, in wrapping up my series on the Heart of Adoption, I wanted to share 5 (of countless)…
Over the past couple of weeks of this National Adoption Month, I’ve shared the deeper heart of Why We Are Adopting and hopefully made clear my understanding that Adoption is not Charity, It’s War! Right now our church is doing a series called The Gospel Effect and the idea is that if we truly accept the Gospel,…
Every month I join Modern Mrs. Darcy’s Twitterature Link-up (which should be coming up at the end of this week and I am super excited to get some feedback on the books I read this past month). Today, she hosted a What’s on YOUR Bookshelf Link-up for all of us to sneak a peak at…
If you’re new to this series, start here! I’ve had numerous conversations with people expressing concern at our adoption: …Is this the right time…Just remember you can’t save the world…Do you have those resources…Think of what you’re giving up…What if the child is sick or brings a really challenging situation…You know, This is not going…
November has looked like a lot of this… Which quickly turns into this… Which then usually results in this… Allowing someone to get his share of this… and this! We bounce back quickly though… And Mommy doesn’t mind sneaking a peak at my “Andyman Solution” :) mmhmm… And then someone gets cold and the snot…
Why are we adopting? I should probably add this to our FAQs because we’ve received it often. It is apparent that many people who adopt do so because they are unmarried or unable to have biological children. Not so in our case; the miniature people we cart around that look EXACTLY like us (or at…
Well, if you’ve been following along, this past month I was honored to be invited by Amber over at Adventures in Mindful Living to join up with her Change 3 Challenge! It was a joy to get to know her better and follow along with her challenge updates as well as the other ladies who…
There was a very strange dichotomy to last week; I experienced annoyances, physical pain, and emotional heaviness, coinciding with super exciting anticipation for a blessed Girl’s Getaway. Such good and such heaviness… (photo credit) In my Twitterature post last week, I mentioned two books I read on marriage, womanhood, and motherhood last month. While those seemed to…
