Today’s the day! We will be placing the order for the first batch of t-shirts first thing Tuesday morning. If you want to have one of these awesome shirts in time for Summer, what are you waiting for? Get your order placed TODAY before time runs out! There’s a small chance that we might be able to order…
As part of our preparation to adopt Little Man, Christy and I attended the Empowered to Connect Conference in St. Louis over the weekend. The conference was intense. It was emotional. It was well worth the time, effort, and energy it took to attend. I’m still processing a lot of the information and trying to…
The homestudy that was originally created for Mihret’s adoption has to be updated for Little Man’s adoption paperwork. After rescheduling or meeting with our social worker two other times, we’re just a few minutes away from finally having our meeting with her! I wasn’t nervous about this meeting at all. Until about 15 minutes ago….
I’m excited to say that we have decided to move forward with the adoption process even though there is still some uncertainty about the direction of international adoptions in Ethiopia. Here’s the thing, though: If we waited until we were 100% certain that there wouldn’t be any surprises or obstacles or difficulties, we’d never move…
Throughout most of December, I had planned on using this picture to share some pretty big news for our family. Our hearts have been captured by an older boy in Ethiopia (referred to hereafter in this post as “Little Man”). We are entering 2014 with the hopes of adopting him and bringing him home to…