Alex and I are celebrating 15 years of marriage today. We were tiny baby people when we started out and …

Alex and I are celebrating 15 years of marriage today. We were tiny baby people when we started out and …
Last week I met with a friend and picked her brain for ideas about one of my kids. This morning …
I’m not sure what all the cool kids are calling it these days, but you know that thing when one …
You know all the Saturday Night Live families? There’s “Sarcastic Clapping Family of Southampton,” “Dysfunctional Family Dinner” with Sarah Michelle …
This morning we had our domestication hearing for Ana, the final step in her adoption process. Woo-hoo! We followed our …
Lists. This is that time of the year, when we take stock of our lives and list the old and …
I’m back over at Coffee+Crumbs sharing those first feelings after I had Elliott. I had preeclampsia, and he had inter-uterine …
Remember back in July when I was in a car accident and my dog died? I mean, separately, but within …
This morning I finally broke the bus stop/jammie barrier. For weeks now, I’ve managed to pull on jeans, shorts, or …
As a mom of three, two adopted internationally, I get a lot of questions about adopting our girls. We’ve completed …
Today I threw away fliers. I crumpled them up and recycled the heck out of them. This may not seem …
For Throwback Thursday, I want to show you a video that most of you probably haven’t seen, bringing Evie home …
My church is big, so we really encourage everybody to get in smaller groups that meet in homes. In order …
My kids go back to school this week. Never mind that it’s the first week of August and we’ve already …
(I wrote this the day before my dog died.) My dog is dying. I won’t try to put that up …
They chortled around the dinner table tonight. Sometimes the only way to describe the bubbling laughter of my children is …
This summer, in an effort to keep us all sane and break up all the hours of togetherness, I signed …
My son was born six weeks early. I watched his little red, wrinkled body inside the incubator in the NICU. …
Do you ever just feel suffocated by Mom Guilt? That extra-heavy, nearly impossible to slough off sense of utter failure …
Do you ever feel like you learn about God’s character through parenting? You look at your own reaction to something …
Grabbing coffee together in Riga on a gorgeous, snowy day. On Monday, we celebrated Ana’s name day. In Latvia, name …
This little-big girl burst into our lives last summer and we fell in love. Hard. Her laughter fills our rooms …
I wrote this on the back of our van…forgetting that two of my kids can read now. A– stood behind …
So…a lot’s happened this week. Rich Stearns told Religion News Service that World Vision had lost “less than 5,000” sponsors …