We had a lovely weekend of various activities including getting together with all our kids. Our daughter Amanda is 5 months pregnant and feeling her baby move lots, and our daughter Erika is only 4 weeks from her due date now. I had the utter fun of sitting with both of the Saturday night...
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God has been faithful, he will be again His loving compassion knows no end
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In the 8 years since our first Ethiopian daughter came home, I’m pretty sure I’ve spent more money on hair products AND more time doing hair than the rest of my life combined. (And yes, that includes my own hair-obsessed teen years!) Keeping up with four girls’ hair is no small thing. We’ve found...
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Go here to read part 1 of this story In early 2003, we began our third adoption hoping to adopt an African American newborn born in the U.S. Our social worker told us to most folks weren’t waiting longer than 3 months for a baby, and was confident we’d be chosen by a birth-mom...
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(Warning: exceedingly long, exceedingly detailed) In the fall of 1997, when we decided to adopt a baby from Korea, our four birth children ranged in age from three to nine years old. As we filled out mountains of paperwork and I prepared our home for another baby, I realized that I’d really love to...
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I wrote recently about the way that we’ve responded to our kids night needs, and wanted to explain our reasoning behind not letting our babies cry it out as a method of sleep training. I want to start by saying I am NOT sharing our thoughts to guilt-trip anyone who made a different choice...
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Not long ago a reader wrote asking me how I’ve handled issues with babies and sleep. For starters, I was blessed to have the example of a great mom, who nursed her babies long-term, slept with them at night, and generally modeled relaxed loving mothering to me. Her example made it second nature for...
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Our power bill has been creeping up lately. Granted, rates increased not too long ago. But in looking at the breakdown that compares this month this year to this month last year, I saw we’re also using more kilowatt hours/month. Since we’re already doing lots of power-saving things, this information displeased me. Nearly every...
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Writing with Gypsy Mama this Friday on the topic of ‘Vivid’. ~~~~~ It’s been a hurry scurry morning, one where we rushed from breakfast to car to a musical performance to the grocery store, with me all the time reaching a hand out to my little 7 year old. “Come with me. “ “Hold...
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