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Jun 27
7 min

Footprints in the Jungle

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

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Kara Larson

Feb 17
3 min

Letting Go Helps Us Grow

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, et...

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Kara Larson

Jan 19
6 min

Planting Roots or Burning Rubber?

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...

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Kara Larson

Aug 15, 2019
5 min

Discovering Grandma Irene

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, ...

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Kara Larson

Jul 5, 2019
5 min

The "Wind" in my Yard Sale

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...

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Kara Larson

Jun 2, 2019
4 min

A Legacy of God-fearing Women

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 h...

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Kara Larson

Mar 14, 2019
4 min

Feeling Preggers without the Glow

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 p...

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Kara Larson

Feb 12, 2019
3 min

Name Your Year

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

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Kara Larson

Dec 2, 2018
4 min

Fighting Giants

"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 dese...

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Kara Larson

Oct 28, 2018
3 min

Snapshot Parenting

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 da...

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Kara Larson

Oct 20, 2018
3 min

Adopted

"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...

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Kara Larson

Oct 7, 2018
5 min

Breadcrumbs to India

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

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Kara Larson

Sep 20, 2018
3 min

The Imprint

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 shoulder...

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Kara Larson

Sep 19, 2018
4 min

The Joining and Growing

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 mo...

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Kara Larson

Sep 19, 2018
11 min

Expanding our Horizon

Adoption was always a someday, when we get more settled, conversation. When our youngest son, C.J., was 18 months old, we sold our townh...

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