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  • Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 3

    It’s already Friday? How’d that happen? Kathryn’s school week… We’re doing Winter Promise’s picture studies, which have been going fine but so far Kathryn is not excited by paintings depicting the American Revolution. I know we’ll have to give this a few more weeks before I can decide if this is working for us or…

  • Adoption Story by Sarah {Guest Post}

    (Thank you to Sarah for today’s guest post!) My husband and I are the proud parents of five children. Two of our kids are adopted and we have three biological children. A year and a half ago we adopted our son from the US foster system at age seven. This past February, our son Reese,…

  • Practicing Gratitude: Gifts 326-350

    Listing more of my one-thousand gifts… 326) talking more with my sister lately 327) sleeping late with my hubby on his birthday 328) Kathryn moved to a chess class at a more convenient time 329) a couple of good visits with my dad 330) laughter 331) Ken having time to help with homeschool this week…

  • Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 2

    So this was the week when my dad was in the hospital with a mystery illness. The super-frustrating part is he still has no answers, no diagnosis. I think I’m going to have to get rather insistent with someone at the hospital to tell us what is going on. They are talking about discharging him,…

  • Adoption Story by Jim {Guest Post}

    (Thank you to Jim for today’s guest post!) In 1983, after our first daughter was about five years old, we came to find out that for us to have another child through natural childbirth was not going to be possible. After a few failed medical procedures, we decided that adoption would be our next step….

  • Practicing Gratitude: Gifts 301-325

    Why is it that it seems harder to come up with these on a difficult week? I’m no less blessed, but my mind jumps off onto things it just doesn’t need to jump off onto. So really, counting my gifts is even MORE important on the difficult weeks. With that prompting me, here are twenty-five…