adoption
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we are eight.
On April 24th, we celebrated 8 years as a family of six. Actually to be quite honest, we haven’t celebrated yet. David and I both had meetings that night so we all vowed to do something special together another time. A week and a day later, we’re still trying to find that time! In the last few months, we had two “come full circle” moments that I wanted to share with you. Firstly, after our family trip to the mountains at the end of December, we stopped in Greenville at the exact Barnes & Noble where David and I met our boys for the very first time. So I talked…
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7 years.
Gabe and Noah have been apart of our family for 7 years. It simultaneously feels like the time has flown and also that they’ve been with us forever. I thought to celebrate Adoption Day, I’d tell you about what they’re each like, right now, in spring, 2022. Gabe. He’ll be 11 years old in a month. He has endless questions about the world and the way things work. He wants to know the details of machines and appliances and any technology. He shines in math, Latin, and science. He’s not a bookworm in the way some of the rest of us are, but does enjoy reading nonfiction, especially…
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october.
Visit with Christi and John David posted this to Facebook after we met up in Greenville with the boys’ birth mom one morning this month, and we mean every word: May my boys always know their birth mother, know her fierce love for them, her courage to carry them to term and bear them into this world, and do the impossible to give them another life through adoption. May they love her all the more for it. And may we find our way together in this blended family God has knit together in the unlikeliest but most beautiful of ways. David turns 40! It was…
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5 years.
Week 1: Week 280:
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4 years.
Four years ago: Today:
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national adoption month part 2: giving.
Hi there! I realize I’m late writing this post, and it’s not technically National Adoption Month any more. Friends, I am sorry and will try not to promise blog posts on a time frame!!!!!!!! I love this blog and love, love writing, but life just seems so very full right now. It’s full of wonderful things and often I wish I had the creative energy to share them with you. But many days, when I reach our afternoon house quiet time or the evening, my brain feels like mush. Thank you for faithfully reading alone with my posts, when I can post. I fervently hope that in a different season…
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national adoption month part one: an ode to our adoption agency.
Hi there, friends! This weekend was the three-year anniversary of the day that our adoption of Gabe and Noah was finalized in court. Did you know that November is also National Adoption Month? This gives me a double excuse to talk about adoption, which is one of my favorite things! I’m going to write two blog posts this week, and this first one is about our adoption agency, Bethany Christian Services. Since it’s been over four years since we started our process, I think it’s a good time to reflect on the agency we chose. I realize that there are many avenues to adoption, including through foster care, and many…
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happy adoption day.
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three years ago.
This is always a meaningful time of year for me, because it marks our adoption anniversary. The actual three-year anniversary isn’t ’til Tuesday, but by this point in time our lives were already very much turned upside down, as we made the 3-hour round trip drive daily to get to know Gabe and Noah, then scrambled back to get our house ready for two toddler boys (rather than an infant), figure out health insurance, and buy a minivan. Today in celebration of that utterly crazy week, I want to show you the first photos we ever saw of our boys. By this time we’d heard their names. We’d heard their…
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gabe’s trip to the zoo.
Our friend from church, Mrs. Peggy (pronounced “Miss Peggy” by us Southerners), is a retired school teacher, and comes over once a week to tutor Gabe. He loves anything to do with science and nature, so this year they’ve used studying about animals to work on concentration, retention, and to practice articulating the things he’s learning. Gabe’s very smart, and it’s obvious there’s so much going on in that head of his, we’re working to help him use his words to express himself. After several weeks of studying animals, Gabe and Mrs. Peggy took a trip to the zoo, just the two of them. He was thrilled for the one-on-one…
