He reached down and tipped my chin, “I have a gift for you” he said. I grinned like a child and lifted my arms to receive. But the gift was heavy and difficult to carry. Its wrapping was frayed and torn, not so pretty as some of the other gifts I’d seen. I stumbled into my home with it and… Read More
This is a chance to join an amazing journey…. Adoption comes at a great cost. It will cost you money, time and energy. It will mean extra work, extra laundry, and more dishes. Adoption is one more chair at the dinner table, one more bedtime prayer, and one more seat in the car. Adoption has cost us financially, emotionally and… Read More
cost /kôst/ – 1. an amount that has to be paid or spent to buy or obtain something. The question I receive the most, is “How much does adoption cost?” Really such a difficult question to answer, because adoption may cost you money, but money is not what you will miss. As you consider adoption, I think it’s important to… Read More
This is Kiara and I am excited to announce that our friends Joe and Katie McAndrew are bringing her home! We will be pushing hard to raise the funds for her rescue. Kiara has spina bifida like Israel, and she has turned 4. Turning four is not a good thing for Kiara, she is slated to be transferred to a… Read More
Family is forever…they say. Family is forever…you said. But is there a point, where love’s not enough and forever is too long? This is not what you expected or intended the day you chose to love a child who had been hurt, the day you chose to adopt. You never knew that their pain could trigger your own wounds, and… Read More
Dear Younger Me, I miss you at times. I look back and think about the days where your greatest worry was convincing the toddler to branch out and try something besides string cheese and crackers and whose turn it was to unload the dishwasher. You worried about the jeans that no longer fit around those postpartum hips and you thought… Read More