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

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...

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 h...

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...

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 dese...

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...

"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 readin...

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...

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...

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...