How many of us have brought home our first babies from the hospital and thought, "Do these guys come with an instruction manual?" Me! I...

"He led me to a place of safety; he rescued me because he delights in me." 2 Samuel 22:20 "God delights to meet the faith of one who...

In my family growing up, there was an invisible line between the boys and girls that was felt. Eventually, divorce made that line...

"Be careful to obey all the commands I am giving you today. Then you will live and multiply, and you will enter and OCCUPY the land the...

Today we had a prayer covering at our church before heading off to pick up our girls! It's so hard to believe this day has finally come!...

UPDATE: We are now fully funded!!!! We were matched to these sweet sisters in January of 2020. They were then 9 and 11, and today they...

The path towards adoption is laborious. The beginning holds much to get done, running around and gathering all kinds of documents and...

When a seed begins, it already has it's potential written within. The kind of plant it can become, what type of fruit it can produce,...

Our moves in life have never been conventional! Some might call us modern day hippies, but we would say not in the truest sense. In our...

When I was a little girl, my favorite times were spent at my Grandma Murray's house. She loved to have us grandkids come stay with her,...

Don't worry, there was no actual "wind" during most of our sale! In fact, it was the only 3 days of this summer so far without some kind...

God has blessed me with three amazing sons, who I adore! He also blessed me with a legacy of amazing God-fearing women in my life that...

As we took this leap of faith off the cliff of adoption, others who have taken the leap before us told me how the process can feel like...

Each year our family writes our favorite events, toys, sayings, etc. from the year that is ending, and we write our individual goals for...

"They returned from looking over the land after forty days.  And they came to Moses and Aaron and to all the people of Israel in the...

It's easy to get stuck in the weeds of our day to day activities. Some days are filled with getting our "to do list" done, while some...

"God decided in advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. This is what he wanted to do, and...

If you haven't read my first three posts: The Imprint, The Joining and Growing, and Expanding our Horizon, then start there before...

I was 11 years old, in the back seat of the car, holding my new Korean sister-to-be, "Meg", when my mother quietly said over her...

When we married at 22 and 25 years of age, we looked at the road before us, ready to walk side-by-side to realize our dreams! But, as...