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Nov 28, 2010
Celebrate Good Times
November is national adoption month. Though we have never been one to celebrate this or even remember it with our kids, we have some very dear friends who do. They have a time once a year, where their children get to pick a favorite restaurant, they go and have some wonderful family time together and talk about what they all feel about being adopted. It becomes a time where everyone can open up and... read more
Oct 29, 2010
Homecoming
Its been a long time since I’ve written. A time of pondering the move, then actually moving, being buried in boxes, looking for jobs, enrolling kids in school, dealing with the financial stress of moving, and getting our little rental house feeling like home. I think we’re there. My kids are in the swing of their new school, they are making many new friends, they are enjoying playing soccer... read more
Jul 31, 2010
A moment to ponder
As we prepare to move our family from the home we have lived in for the last 8 years…. I have been pondering all that this home has brought us. When we moved here we had recently brought our first son home from Russia – so this home is the only one he really knows. I remember setting up our bed and his pack n play out in our three season room while we had the hard wood flooring finished. ... read more
Jan 7, 2010
A Little Creativity Goes a Long Way
We have this room in our home that is just, well… empty. This house was built in the 70’s and that was back when the “great room” was yet to be invented. There are all these choppy rooms with random hallway’s throughout. I love this house. We actually moved away for a while and had the luck of moving back to this house after our homesickness set in. When we came back we... read more
Dec 29, 2009
A Good Friend
I am lucky. Blessed. Fortunate. Whatever you wanna say…. I have one really amazing, really gets me, really gives to me, friend and I realize how rare it is. I have other friends who are wonderful, who I laugh with and who bring such joy to my life. I hope they know who they are – they should, and I probably should tell them more often how much I need them in my life. But to have that one friend that... read more
