homeschool, adoption, parenting, family, homemaking
On the shuttle bus from the airport to the hotel, just a few minutes after meeting Ashley for the first time, I had a little revelation. She was talking about her pregnancy (seriously adorable baby bump!), and I realized what I’m missing with these two new children of mine: Pregnancy. Hearts and minds need time [...]
“Sometimes it’s hard having a new family,” said the five-year-old, as Ken pushed her on the swing. Yes, it is. For all of us. I’ve talked about how crazy and difficult things must be from the perspective of our new 4- and 5-year-old. But this post is about how foster adoption affects the rest of the [...]
{Ken’s new workout program = kid lifting} I thought, maybe this will be too easy. I’ve written before about the misconceptions surrounding adoption, especially regarding older children or children from “hard places” like orphanages or the foster care system. You don’t need to look far to find horror stories. Maybe not strychnine-in-the-well kinds of stories [...]
This adventure with two new kids in the family requires a sense of humor. Thankfully, Ken has that in spades, and his humor helps me keep my sanity. I’ve managed not to actually pull out my hair (yet!) but there are times I’ve considered it. The non-stop dirt bike sound effects make me a little [...]
I planned to post this last week, but when everything happened with my dad, I put it on hold. I’m publishing it now with no changes/updates from how I originally wrote it, so it’ll make more sense if you pretend you’re reading this last Wednesday. ————————- A blog reader who is a fairly new foster [...]
Last week, my phone rang and the little voice on the end belonged to 5-year-old Scout: “Hi, Ms. Jamie. We just had our goodbye visit, and I wanted to ask if you would be our new family.” Tears sprang to my eyes and I clamped my hand over my mouth so I didn’t lose my [...]
Friday afternoon, Ken and Kathryn went to pick up the kids up for the weekend. I’d been praying that we’d get the TPR order (to terminate parental rights) before we had the children for the weekend so that we’d have a little more clarity on this whole foster-adopt situation. All these if’s are hard to [...]
Kathryn’s words after meeting the kids: “Our lives will never be quiet if we adopt those two, but — I love them!“ I think that pretty much sums it up. Last week was the kids’ 1st visit to our house. That day, the weather was perfect, so we played outside as much as possible. The [...]
Over the weekend, we met the 5 year old girl and soon-to-be-four year old boy who may soon join our family. I instagrammed a photo as we were walking out the door, saying, “Do we look as nervous and unprepared as we feel? Heading to meet our possible next two kids. Pray for us?” Last [...]
I’d hoped to have more to update by now, but things don’t always go as planned, so I’ll update as much as I can. Last Monday’s meeting was fantastic. {If you have no idea what I’m talking about, read this post first.} The children’s caseworker is very sweet. She is thorough and appears to be [...]
So… remember that little teaser from a few weeks back, when I alluded to being busier soon? Yeah. Time for a little more about that. A bit of background: We were approved back in late 2011 for another foster-adoption, which meant we were due to update our paperwork in late 2012. Because of some difficult [...]
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