Swimming With the River

I'm not much of a writer. I can hardly keep up with the things that need doing around the house. We are doing well. We are moved into...

We had our final adoption hearing yesterday in Jacksonville. It was quite an informal process, and we are nonetheless glad we made the trip...

I'm just not ready for this. How does a mother know to wake up because she needs to wake up? That happened to me two weeks ago. I loo...

Things are not too exciting lately. The weather is warming up here in Florida, and I finally broke down and turn the air conditioner on in ...

We don't make holidays a big celebration. We try to keep things simple, and enjoy the day. We didn't race to the photo centers for f...

We ended up purchasing a bigger house. Did I write about this before? Anyway, that is where we have focused a lot of our attention (and mo...

Conethia doesn't want to hear my daily woes (smile), so I'll just move on to talking about Emma. We are most fortunate to have a ba...

I have a very active and demanding 6.5 year old, and now a 4 month old. I homeschool our very smart boy. I work with our contractor on rem...

When we signed on with an agency to adopt from Kyrgyzstan, we edited our blog and removed several posts about our unsuccessful Ukrainian ado...

We brought our baby girl home this month! She was adopted domestically, and we couldn't be happier. We didn't want to post anythin...