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Category: adoption

  • Adoption Story by Brooke

    (Thank you to Brooke for today’s guest post!) When I was a little girl I use to line up my Cabbage Patch dolls on my bed and play “adoption.” I would pick out which doll I wanted to adopt and then we would have a tea party… or some other celebratory “Happy Adoption Day” activity. …

  • Adoption Story by Sandy

    (Thank you to Sandy for today’s guest post!) “Religion that our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this; to look after widows and orphans in their distress.” James 1:27 It is hard for me to pinpoint just exactly the date when I first felt the call to adopt, but I remember driving and praying,…

  • Adoption Story by Barrett {Guest Post}

    (Thank you to Barrett for today’s guest post!) My wife Jenifer and I have been married for almost twenty years and we have four amazing biological children, aged 17 to 10. What follows is our story of how God stretched our faith and enriched our lives through his gift of our fifth child, Madeline Kate….

  • 4th of July: Food, Fun, Friends, and Puppies!

    Lindsey’s friend Deanna spent the weekend with us again. Even when we don’t do much of anything exciting, I think she enjoys just hanging out; she currently lives in a group foster home for girls, and even though it’s a pretty good place, it’s not the same as having a family. And although we really…

  • Homeschool Plans and Optimism

    In about a week, both of my girls will be out of town. Lindsey will be on a mission trip with the youth group at church, and Kathryn will be on a vacation with her daddy and family. While they are gone, I will disappear into (or maybe under!) my enormous pile of school books,…