KOREA ADOPTION TIMELINE: THE U.S. SIDE Timelines, costs, and adoption processes vary widely among countries, agencies, programs, and even between families pursuing the same country through the same program! Some families find their future son or daughter on a waiting child photo listing and then begin...
ADOPTION TRIBE: WE NEED YOU! Like yesterday. The Adoption Tax Credit is currently in danger of being eliminated, and this is bad news for families like ours. When it's all said and done, our adoption process will end up around $45,000. FORTY-FIVE THOUSAND. For families like ours - where...
Rewind the clock three months, almost to the day. We were at Aling Aling Falls in Bali, and I was sitting on a stone platform having one of the biggest internal debates of my life. Our friends really wanted to go waterfall-jumping, but I did...
We received a second report about Gideon’s delays this week, so we had a call with our American agency yesterday to talk it over. Once again, we sifted through a bunch of possible (read: “maybe we can check for…”) medical diagnoses. And once again, we...
September is Superhero Month in preschool chapel, and as the newly appointed preschool chapel leaders, Brian and I have been teaching our kiddos all about Elijah the Strong, Ester the Brave, Rahab the Courageous, and Joshua the Wise. Each week we don our "Super Kids"...
This is day 7 of 21 in the 200 Stars for Gideon series. If you want to be part of Gideon’s story, click HERE. Thursday, August 3rd. "SWS [Korean agency] does express some concerns...