Happy Belated Birthday, Caleb!

Our house is beginning to show signs of a new era. Bins of child paraphernalia have replaced what once was the storage space for our DVDs, photo albums and flower vases. My clutter-free existence is getting crowded with hand-me-downs and donations for the orphanage that have been flooding in. They are coming …
Today we got [...]

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So You’re Saying There’s a Chance?

We got word today that the birth certificates are in process and they hope to have the children’s passports by July 2nd. Pending this and a negative TB test for Eden, we are on our way.
If things progress as we hope they will — we will have 4 day’s notice before we hop on a [...]

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The Home Stretch

We have hopes to travel the second week of July but before we get the “go ahead” to get on that plane we have a few more hurdles to overcome …
…Eden will need to pass the Tuberculosis test that is required by the US Embassy for all children over 2. They first do a skin [...]

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Trees that Weep and the People Who Prune Them

My to do list is unending, yet somehow I found time today to spend just under 2 hours pruning our weeping cherry. I discovered last week that the branches growing out of the top of our weeping cherry were instead an entirely different tree that should have been pruned a year or two ago.
I’m embarrassed [...]

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Getting Showered

One of the greatest blessings of this adoption process has been the overwhelming love and support we’ve felt …through every stage. At times I’ve even thought “our friends are more excited than we are.” And this thought not at all to illustrate that we lacked excitement.
Here are a few pics from a shower that friends [...]

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The Next Phase of Waiting

We both keep catching the other drifting in and out of E & C’s room. A few times each day I walk in there. Sometimes to pray, others to straighten the clothes in the closet (in case, of course, when our air conditioning kicks in it blows really hard against the clothes and they shift), [...]

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An Oldie, But a Goooooodie

I hardly ever post here, as Sara does such a beautiful job of expressing what’s in both of our hearts. And when I do, it’s often just to sort of “poke my head in” and rile things up.
Well, as Sara and I wait on our travel details, for some reason I was reading [...]

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Unsearchable Greatness

I almost haven’t been able to go near the magnitude of what has transpired over the past few days. “Thank you” seems hollow. We’ve done nothing to deserve this participation in His rescue of these two, yet He has invited us in.
I’ve been spinning. Reeling. Twirling. Jumping. Dancing.
Months ago at the height of the pain [...]

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How Does One Pass Court … 3 Days Earlier Than Their Scheduled Court Date?

Well, I’m not quite sure.
But we did.
And they are now legally ours.
(Our agency coordinator may have lost hearing in one ear after my response to the news she delivered to me at 11:30am today.)
More details later … no time for blogging, too much to celebrate.
We are undone by His faithfulness.
He who promised is faithful.

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78 Hours

In approximately 78 hours the courts will open in Ethiopia and our case will be heard.
There are some outside variables that will need to be in place that from my naked eye seem fairly impossible . . . but I know there is no challenge too great for our God. These circumstances afford for an [...]

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One Week Countdown

One week from tonight — next Friday morning/Thursday night at approximately 1am (EST) — the courts will open in Ethiopia and our case will be heard sometime between the hours of 1am and 9am. You think we’ll be able to sleep?
While we don’t know a lot about what happens during that court case, we have [...]

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