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Our final photo update before we travel next month. Isn't he so cute?? Those dimples and brown eyes are gifts from the Lord. Guess we'd better stock up on bubbles!!!

Here is the timeline/task list we have been working through for the last five weeks or so (not including visa stuff or documents for our agency...) Step 2 was complete on Wednesday (2/19) and now we are waiting on Article 5. The end is definitely in sight, though it's hard not to feel overwhelmed with… Continue reading A Quick Update

  For the second January in a row, Thomas and I completed a round of "Whole30," which is generally defined as a 30-day reset for your body by eliminating certain food groups that might be having a negative impact. For 30 days, we did not consume the following: sugar, dairy, grains, alcohol, legumes, carrageenan, MSG,… Continue reading Whole30, take three

A common question I am asked these days is "how are the kids doing with the idea of Oliver coming home?" Since we've never done this before, we are obviously not experts, but we are trying to be intentional with how we prepare them. Here are a few things we have done: -We pray for… Continue reading some adoption musings on a quiet February day

This is a popular question for us these days and with very good reason! Things have been quiet...so we have been quiet. In August, following our trip to Kenya, we came off of the unofficial hold we had been on with our agency since January and officially entered the strange in-between period that is "waiting… Continue reading “So, what’s happening with your adoption?”

We thoroughly enjoyed a week at the Outer Banks with the Grooms' side of the family over 4th of July week. We have more often than not found ourselves travelling over the 4th, with this year being no exception, but this time it was fun to be in the good ole US of A and… Continue reading OBX

It feels appropriate to write an end of summer post on the Sunday night of Labor Day weekend. Even though the summer weather here will stretch on (and on, and on...but that's another issue), Labor Day weekend feels perfectly transitional in saying see ya to summer and hello to the roller coaster plunge of a… Continue reading the summer of 2018

The elephant in the room here is that I haven't blogged in three months, but I won't waste time apologizing or explaining so that we can move on to the good stuff, which is an update! Our dossier (the big, fat file of paperwork) went to China at the end of December (DTC). I think… Continue reading So it’s almost April?!

[*DISCLAIMER: If you only read one book this year, if you haven't read a book since high school English class, if you read somewhere between 1 and 1,000 books this year....it's all good. I read because I love it but we can certainly be friends if you don't love it. I'm always happy to share… Continue reading 2017: A Year in Books