Sabotage, victory and everything in between.
One Month of Zero Waste Living
Here’s a breakdown of the steps we’ve taken over the last 30 days to make our home more eco-friendly.
From Consumer to Conserver: Our Family's Journey to Zero Waste
In addition to opening our home to foster care, we’ve also started the process of making a big lifestyle change: Zero Waste.
The Struggle is Real: Pregnant AND Parenting
Finding God's Message in The Face of Murder and Suicide
I feel like I’ve stood close to death and evil twice in my life: when a family member tried to commit suicide, and more recently- when a loved one was murdered.
Her Name Was Lucy
On Being Pregnant: Week 30
Some days I wondered if I was even worthy of this gift. I would look at myself in the mirror and actually feel a level of shame about my growing bump. Was I doing something wrong?
God, Master of Plot Twists
I didn't walk into that radio station looking for a job. I walked in there to talk about what God has called me to talk about: adoption and foster care. I walked in there to bring awareness to Walk for the Waiting, and to start a conversation about the orphan crisis going on in our very own backyard. And then, in walks God, opening exquisite doors like that's what He does or something.
The Introduction: Part 2
The woman who gave me life was finally in my childhood home, and I was at a loss of words and gutted of my tears. Where do we even begin? How do I try to recount the years of my life, and how do I respectfully ask the questions that haunted me so? 19 years of separation, basically a lifetime, stood between us and the foundation of our relationship.
The Question
As you might have noticed, I’ve been asked a lot of questions about my experience with adoption. It seems that this blog has become an outlet for answering those questions after years and years of thought. I think one question I was asked that is probably the most important to answer is: “Why did they just give you away?”