ADOPTION TRIBE: WE NEED YOU! Remember that time a bunch of you helped save The Adoption Tax Credit? Brian and I (along with hundreds of other adoptive families) were so excited to see the Adoption Tax Credit pass with the new tax reform, because it means...
Hey friends! We've had so many of you asking the same question: "So other than waiting for Gideon, what have you been up to?" At first I thought it was a funny question, because Gideon is the most amazing human on the planet, so what else...
Today is Giving Tuesday! Not many of you know this, but one of our FAVORITE days all month is the day we decide where our “leftover tithe” is going to go. See, we have a certain percentage of our income we give to the church...
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...