Mother’s Day, inevitably, evokes such strong emotion for so many. For those who have the privilege of being a mom, Mother’s Day is remembering all the years before of handcrafted cards (from dad) with baby’s fingerprints, pancakes in bed, and later, handwritten “thank yous” from the growing kiddos.  There is nothing quite like Mother’s Day when you are a mom.

We LOVE our church but we also LOVE the heart our church has for the abandoned, orphaned, and unloved.  Lucky for us, Summit Church started the Orphan Care Ministry just as we were beginning the process of adopting so we have benefited tremendously from the resources, grants, and training we’ve received through OCM.  Two months ago we got to hear

Unfortunately, not a whole lot more to update with our April numbers… We saw lots of boys filing into Hannah’s Hope this month but not very many girls.  Praying for BIG things on this National Day of Prayer…that God would open up the floodgates and allow many orphaned girls (who we know are out there) to be paper-ready and connected

For our little girl (or girls, or kids…never quite sure how to address them), This month has been full of lots of action on the adoption-front!  Just today we received word from one of our mom “spies” in Ethiopia, that there have been a bunch of little ones brought in to Hannah’s Hope this weekend.  Such fun!  We absolutely love

It’s been a really crazy month of adoption info in March.  Last weekend I (Courtney) got to enjoy an unbelievable weekend away at Created for Care, a retreat and conference just for adoptive moms.  What an unbelievable experience!  I laughed and cried more in those three days than I have in the past year, I’m pretty sure. Here were just

We apologize for the delay.  Yes, we got our February number on February 29th.  We have been waiting to announce it because we wanted to give both numbers together (our single girl number AND our new sibling number, read the previous post if you’re confused). But since everything in the adoption world takes four times as long as people tell

(Let me start by saying that this isn’t our little one. Just an agency friend’s little girl but man is she cute!) Oh goodness, where to begin. Andrew and I started praying very purposefully over the adoption recently, trying to determine if God would ask us to reconsider our parameters in light of some of the changes in Ethiopia. Not

The original intent of this place was to be a journal for our daughter. It never was really meant to be a true blog for the public, we decided to share because we thought our friends might want a window into our world as we wait. It’s hard when you never get a baby bump…people want something to see and

We weren’t quite sure what our monthly email might look like for January. We were fully prepared to see those ugly 8s next to each other again (-: Praise God…only one 8!!!! We’re #85! Since my last post was heavy (and long) I will keep this short and optimistic. One of the huge blessings of this past month has been

January has been a rough month. After starting this journal so many times, I am finally confronting all the challenges and heartache that this month has held for our family. It seems best to put my feelings to paper about this adoption journey using an analogy, and running a marathon is the thing we liken it to the most. We