It has been just over a year since the adoption of our daughter, Cora, was completed and she was finally able to come home to our family. It has been a hard year but a good year. I don’t think I really understood how those two could work together. Or how true it is when … Read More
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Embracing Complexity
November is Adoption Awareness Month. As an active participant and student in the adoption community, I experience an onslaught of differing opinions on adoption during the month. And I have purposely tried to minimize my voice in the adoption community in order to make more room for adoptees and birthparents to be heard. On this … Read More
Happiest 3rd Birthday
Today was such a good day. Today our sweet, darling girl turned 3- IN OUR HOUSE! 365 days ago she turned 2 NOT in our house and it was so hard. It was so sad for us that we had prayed with complete faith that she would be home and God still said “no”. Sad … Read More
Change and Identity
Today I dropped my oldest child off at her very first day of preschool. I was not as emotional as I was afraid I would be. Just very excited for her and a little nervous that she would not love it as much as I thought she would. Even though I had no tears, I … Read More
Home From Taiwan
Exactly one month ago, we arrived back in Canada as a family of four and, after 846 days, I traded a symbol of anticipation for another symbol- one of Hope and Grace. I put this black bracelet on my wrist on November 1, 2013. We had just begun the process of adopting from Taiwan and attended … Read More
Missing Birthday
Today our little girl on the other side of the ocean turns two. And she is not home. For those who know me well, and maybe even those of you who don’t even know me that well, you know that this week I have cried a river over how hard this is. I have prayed … Read More
Praying For Miracles
We have been doing a lot of praying in the last several months. We received a match for a little girl on February 6, 2015. She moved from the orphanage, to live with a foster family until the adoption is complete and we can travel to pick her up. The foster family is a Canadian … Read More
Praying Towards Taiwan
My heart is overwhelmed today. It is so humbling that God has called us to adopt vulnerable children and offer hope to moms who cannot parent. We are so encouraged by the financial support of fellow Christians who have a heart for caring for the fatherless as well. God loves children, and it is so … Read More
What’s Next?…
We had Lucy’s last court hearing to finalize her adoption into our family on Wednesday, March 6th. It is so exiting and, although we never considered that it would not be granted, it is an odd relief. I need to complete some final immigration forms, but now Lucy is officially our daughter and her birth certificate … Read More
Our Journey Into Parenthood
Welcome to my first post on my new website. I had been sharing posts in a shared space for years and the more I have wanted to write, the more I felt an urge to create my own space. I am going to go back to some old posts, condense them and share them in … Read More