Hope Deferred

No new updates. There are some things percolating that we’ll surely post as soon as we have definitive information.
Nate and I are taking a mini-sabbatical of sorts at The International House of Prayer in Kansas City. This is about the best place on the planet I know of to just let down … [...]

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Crosswords for Adoptive Moms

I’m convinced the Crossworld Puzzle industry has an untapped market in adoptive moms. We are worse than dogs in heat — looking for any creative outlet we can find to bide time while we wait on our “assignment.” Hence, blogging!
As if that wasn’t enough, there is a not-so-new game of cyber-tag going around that my [...]

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Bigger and Better

In Young Life we used to organize this scavenger hunt of sorts for high school kids called “Bigger and Better” where we’d give them a penny or paperclip – something small – to start off. Then, in teams, they’d go from house to house and ask if the person at that home had something “bigger [...]

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Shout out to Em!

Seems that everyone has an opinion these days about what should go in our blog. Being an opinionated person, I’m not surprised that I tend to be around others equally (if not more) opinionated than me; so, I’m not threatened by this barrage of requests on what we should write in our diary. I just [...]

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Keeping it at Bay

I realized just this morning that I have been doing what I’m sure most people do when they experience pain/deferred hope/waiting … I’ve been pretending like the thing I’m hoping for just isn’t happening. It’s like the big purple elephant in the room, our adoption. I’m actually startled when people ask about it because in [...]

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