Adoption Stories: Not My Child’s Savior
“You have the million-dollar family,” he drawled, “one girl, one boy.” His well-intentioned assessment of our family of four felt like a small stone in my shoe. Each step brought a blistering chafe th…
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Adoption Stories: And Birth Mom Makes Eight
This guest blogger is my childhood best friend, Andrea Esh. Chill to the core and one of my favorite people in the world. Here is her adoption story. Birth mother. To some that word strikes fear…
Adoption Stories: Stepping over Fear
They walked into the restaurant alone, with no kids to corral or scrape off the floor. Jeff and Angie have agreed to meet me for lunch. I was expecting their youngest son to join us, as today was a…
Those Kids Who Aren’t Ours
The first time I looked at him, he was grayish and wasn't doing his one job very well. Our first baby needed extra oxygen and a short stay in the NICU before coming home to live with us, his under-pr…
Our Failed Adoption: Why Parents Should Never Compare
The van ride was warm and bumpy but at least we had no air conditioning whatsoever. The kids fiddled with our camera, taking videos of shanties and clothes drying on bushes until the tiny to…
Why We Adopt
Photo by Impressions Photography My kitchen was extra full and messy for the best of reasons: friends were having dinner with us. There is nothing like an honest friend and this one looked at me a…
A Day in the Life of a Six-Year-Old Living with HIV
Little E sings and whistles. She loses teeth and gets whiney when she's tired. She is sweet and spicy rolled into one. She knows HIV has been in her blood since her days of living in Uganda, Africa…
We are Catching On
God loves to showcase on the outside, what he is up to on the inside. We see it all over Jesus’ interactions with people. He fed the crowds and then he talked about being bread for their souls. He …