Adoption

Adoption has been on our hearts a lot lately.   ALL of our six children mean the world to us.  It is the joy that we find in 'being family' that calls us to open our hearts and lives to children through adoption.  Amy Eldridge, Executive Director of Love Without Boundaries, has written a particularly moving article about older child adoption here  http://www.lwbcommunity.org/on-my-own.

 I hope you'll take the time to hop on over the the Love Without Boundaries blog and read about it.  (And then watch for some exciting news here in the next few days.... you'll see a hint over there on the sidebar...)

New blog

It's been a long time since I've updated this blog. We're all doing well. Another year older, maybe a little wiser.

Recently I've turned my blogging attention to another topic that is near and dear to my heart - "living more with less." We took a big leap of faith 18 months ago which led us to many lifestyle changes. Come on over and read all about it at Simply Life.

And since this blog has been all about the two latest additions to our family, here are a couple of photos from Halloween 2010. Too cute!!

Between two Gotcha Days

A little more than a year ago Melinda joined our family. A little less that three years ago, we were in Taiwan picking up Alex. On either side of those travel anniversaries, they each have birthdays. Alex turned four a week before we celebrated Melinda's '1 year home' adoption day, and Melinda will turn two just two weeks after Alex's '3 years home' adoption day. So from mid-September to mid-November it is one celebration after the next with these two. I can't think of a better way to spend the Autumn!

One Year Ago


Today (believe it or not, that's a smile)


Three years ago

Today