“One More Big Cuddle, Mommy!”

Each morning, after the children wake up, among a few other daily traditions, we have what we call “the big cuddle.” What started as a sweet excuse to wrap our arms around our little ones has become an elbow-jabbing, hair-grabbing, saliva-dripping heap that ends with something similar to a team huddle. It’s not really a [...]

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Happy Birthday Eden!

Birthdays aren’t celebrated much in Ethiopia. Our childrens’ first experience with a birthday was mine a few weeks ago. Thanks to these little eager beavers (trying their hand at any bit of language they can remember) I heard “Happy Birthday, Mommy” for multiple weeks.
So … this morning, when I woke Eden up to tell her [...]

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Everyday Life

I should be planning what I’m going to cook this week (can you believe it, the first week I’ve had to cook since we brought these children home … thanks to some wonderful friends!!) but instead I diverge.
Just want to give a few snapshots into daily life post-adoption. In general life here with them feels [...]

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Taking the Bronze

Every September 2nd I have felt like it was just yesterday that Nate and I got married.
This year, on the eve of our bronze anniversary, I just can’t believe it has only been eight years. I look back at the people we were that day and think only God could have known that we would [...]

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