Living Simply to Please Jesus while Simply Loving One Another
Leap Year Day is quite a day of celebration in our home…it was four years ago on Leap Year that I met our precious Birdie in China. Remembering that day, her facial expression was one of complete emptiness, her hollow eyes revealing deep sorrow. She painstakingly walked toward me when pushed by the woman accompanying…
Johnny-boy’s “shortened ” surgery yesterday was supposed to take four hours but instead took six hours. This surgery was performed in an attempt to have his feet stay in a secure position so he can “walk” more smoothly (with assistance). The surgeon broke both his feet in multiple places to put cadaver bone in all…
For those who aren’t on Facebook I wanted to share what I posted yesterday morning: Yesterday was an unbelievable day of celebration for our family as we had the joy of participating as six of our sweet pile were baptized. Each wrote their own powerful testimony, some sharing very vulnerable things of their pre-coming home…
Well it’s official – our little Miss Birdie Bee is 7-years-old!! Seven!! Although Birdie doesn’t really understand what a birthday is, and she is unable to say “seven” (or most words for that matter) she sure knew what I meant when I told her, “It’s going to be Birdie’s birthday and we will sing (and…
I couldn’t help myself ….I actually love reading and writing sonnets (even if there are an extra couple of lines)… ************** Four Little Girls Once four little girls were completely unknown, Those who saw them back then? Well their minds now’d be blown. See those four little girls didn’t matter…
As an orphan waits for a family, no one in their world (the workers, directors, etc. of the orphanage) would ever guess or even begin to imagine what our faithful God would have planned for their future when a family comes for them! The orphan knows first hand hopelessness, despair, the long lonely days and…
Pictures capturing tiny snippets of the triumphs, the joy, the laughter, the craziness of large families, the visible healing, the snuggles, the cheering, the gatherings – and zillions more teeny-tiny memories and many gigantic memories because we said “YES!!” And it’s a beautiful day to celebrate National Adoption Day! Some of my personal favorite memories……