Tag: older-child adoption

  • One year ago, we met our teenage daughter

    One year ago yesterday, we met Lindsey — or as Kathryn puts it, “looked into her eyeballs” — for the first time. Back then, we couldn’t share her real name or her show her face in photos. So I got creative in our 1st photo. There were so many emotions wrapped up in that day,…

  • Why Adoption?

    I’m finally getting around to re-posting some of my old Rose Cottage posts that are relevant here. Like this one from April of 2008… As we’ve told our family and friends that we plan to adopt through the foster care system (meaning we will adopt a child that is currently in foster care here in…