Weeping Through The Night…

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First, I have a personal request. If you are here and are about to read this post, would you please read it in its entirety?  Please do not skim, but please read the whole thing. There are some important parts that could easily get lost if you skim, and I would feel better knowing that…

The Responsibility

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Today my heart weighs heavy preoccupied with heaviness of mind. I eluded a few days ago that there is something that I need to share.   And seriously, sweet friends, this is one of the extremely difficult things about having a very public blog.   Pre-blog days things just happened with few folks noticing. Our…

Hardly Empty

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I was thinking about our nest.   I’m just fifty-two years old. My man is fifty-six years old. Nesting now together for almost 33 years. If we had listened to society,  2.2 children per family,  {not really sure what .2 looks like, maybe that’s a kid that you sorta raise  till you can get ’em…

Unexpected

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Recently something occurred that left us reeling.   It was completely not on our radar. At all. The kind of thing that we have grappled at trying to comprehend and understand ‘why?’. In the next few days I am going to share about it. Please pray for me as I prepare to write what happened….

GOD Moves the Mountains

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Rejoicing around the world!   Little Kirill that we fasted and prayed for? He’s coming home!! The Supreme Court in the country he is in, has overturned the judge’s decision!! Guys, you were part of it!! Every single person who prayed and/or fasted? Each and every one was part of history in the making!! His…

Her Parents….

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On Saturday I did a blog post that followed up on the Friday post…regarding adoption from Uganda.  One of the commentators is someone who goes by “thesleepyknitter”… Anyway, all the people who commented on Friday were mentioned in the post on Saturday, including “thesleepyknitter”… Last night as we were climbed into bed we had FOX…

Follow-Up to Yesterday’s Post!

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Sweet friends – here ya’ go: Feona, that post is coming! Lisa and Allison – the amount of time “in-country” definitely depends.  Dw found our Elizabeth and Elijah and started the paperwork while there.  He came home and we updated our home study and did the immigration on the US side.  Then I went back…

The How To….

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First off, let me stress:  I am not an expert on adoption from Uganda. That being said, there are several ways that I know of that one can adopt from Uganda. Single moms?? You are not disqualified because you are single! {In fact if you are single and wonder what God thinks about you adopting, read…

Redeemer House

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My heart broken over and over and over and over in Uganda. Here is yet another one of those times. Redeemer House ~a beautiful home for the orphan~ Founded by a Godly woman named Kathy from Oregon.  A few years older than myself, there was an instant connection.  We have emailed back and forth for…