It seems fitting to me that November is Adoption Awareness Month, it’s pretty much all that’s been on my mind lately anyway. Today I just wanted to share some of my favorite online adoption resources and information. TO READ IF SOMEONE YOU KNOW IS ADOPTING Why You Cannot Hold My Daughter by Lauren at Mercy…
Every now and then people ask us why we are adopting, it’s not really the kind of question you can just answer with a sentence or two and every couple has a different story, today I’d like to share ours. Actually, it started even before there was an “ours”, I remember wanting to adopt ever…
I want so badly for that image above to be one of Ephraim (or one of Rae & him) but I have to wait until we pass court for that. But thankfully, that isn’t too far away! Robyn, our social worker in South Africa got back last week and was able to set up our…
the Saskatoon-Regina drive is the most boring ever, there is one valley/hill the entire way and this is it Last week Jared and I missed most of Raeca’s birthday to make a 6 hour round trip down to Regina to meet Robyn, the social worker from South Africa that matched us with our son. It was a…
I’ve questioned many times in the last three years why God seems to like to make us wait. There have been days where I have felt like I honestly could not handle the weight of waiting any longer, it felt like a physical pressure on my chest, one that was affecting my ability to breathe….
It took three years and a lot of ups and downs but last week we got the call: we have a son Raeca has a little brother We are all a little (okay, a LOT) excited! Obviously I’ll share more soon, but right now I just want to say: thank you. It’s been a journey…
