N.A.M pt 11-Our Agency
Link: International Adoption :: International Adoption Agency. Adoption is one of the most misunderstood and misinterpreted things in parenthood. Bad press, like corrupt social services, media that has the motto “if it bleeds, it leads,” and people that feel like having adopted children is like being a second class citizen. Recently our county, city, and …
N.A.M pt 10-Ten Months Together
Ten Months together, today marks exactly 10 months that we’ve been together. This is thanksgiving day and we couldn’t be more excited that it marks 10 months with our children. There are many reasons to give thanks this thanksgiving and I will list our top 10. 10. We have survived our 1st ten months of …
N.A.M pt 9-Older Child Adoptions
Link: Christian Adoption Blog – TV Show About Older Child Adoption. What is the difference between older child adoption and adopting infants/toddlers. There is varied opinions on what constitutes older child adoption. No matter the flavor, international or domestic adoption I would say that older child adoptions include but are not limited to those that …
N.A.M pt 8-Goodbye!?
What are we doing? What must the kids be thinking? Who are we? All these questions popped into our head as we were preparing to meet our kids when we arrived in Colombia. Just today “SuperMami” (my name for my beautiful wife ‘mami’ is pronounced mommy) told me what “Mowgli” (our name for our oldest …
N.A.M pt 6-The Cry of the Orphan
“It is the cry of my heart to honor you, it is the cry of my heart worship you…” this contemporary worship song continues on to describe our heart for worshiping God. What exactly is the cry of the orphan? Love, Hope, and Home. My previous job taught me many things about children, …
N.A.M pt.5
“I will not leave you as orphans.”-John 14:18 Wendy, the blogger at I will not leave you as orphans, recently commented on our site and agreed with my adoption definition from my previous post, Different?! She mentioned how thankful our children were for the gifts that were given to them. Aside from the …
N.A.M pt.4
“Your home is the single most powerful arena on earth to change a life for God!” -Bruce Wilkinson in The Prayer of Jabez When I think of that quote that I recently came across in my quote box, I am reminded of it’s truth. However, I think there is more to that thought than the …
N.A.M pt.2
I know I left you with a long post last time on the topic of National Adoption Month, I apologize. I am attempting to write a daily post on adoption and permalink to some awesome adoption resources. I don’t want to sugar coat anything and tell you that it has been all glorious. We’ve had …
National Adoption Month
So, November is National Adoption Month here in the states and it turns out that I might have something to say on the subject. The biggest challenge to being an adoptive family for us is that there are no “been there done that” people in our physical lives that we have a significantly close relationship …