Pause

There are times and seasons for everything. While our blog has been a gift to write and fun to do for a period of time, we’ve decided it’s time to push the pause button on this public diary for various reasons.
At this moment, we anticipate some long months ahead of waiting — so, fear not, [...]

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Hunting Down Paper

The past few days have been the most energy inefficient I’ve experienced in a while — on multiple fronts. The latest paper chase for our new agency has had me back and forth across town more times than I want to admit. I hate running errands and will do everything I can to lump tasks [...]

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Oh Happy Day!

Adopting has connected us with a whole crew of people at different stages of the same walk. Although requirements vary from domestic to international and between different countries, the general language is the same and the angst of the wait can unite any stranger . . . or re-unite any old friend.
One of these was [...]

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“Daddy is home … YES!”

Maddy fell asleep on me last night. That marks a successful day for Aunt Sissy. My six and a half year old niece mimicked a explanation she’d heard her Mommy, Aunt Sissy and Nana all use when she said “I’m just resting my eyes, Aunt Sissy.” I know what that means. I wondered if that [...]

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A Glimpse of Why We’re Doing This Thing

Nate here, again hesitant to add my two cents to this blog as I’m not sure my fragile, male English-Major ego can handle comparisons to my wife’s beautiful authenticity (and, well, her haikus!).
So I normally just stick to posting cool links and stuff.
Anyway, as we’ve gone through the last few months, fielding questions about why [...]

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Praying Dangerous Prayers

I recently read in a commentary on the book of Job where the author challenges readers to “pray dangerous prayers.”
My mind flashed back to a year ago this time and even before when my mind was filled with prayers like “God, make me more like you … I want to really know you.”
Sometimes I walk [...]

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We Have An Update

Finally!

We’ve been sort of vague and non-communicative on this blog the last couple weeks. Mostly because there’s been lots of teeny developments giving us reason to believe a referral was coming … but then not panning out. Rather than telling everyone about all the jump starts, we’ve just been watching and waiting and praying.
And now [...]

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Ode To Nate

Maybe better titled: Ode to a Faithful God, Who’s Placed His Finger On My Husband

Seven years ago today Nate and I gathered the masses to watch us say “I do.” That felt like eons ago. We had no idea what we were getting ourselves into as we giddily pranced through vows that have since carried [...]

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