I sit here today with a heavy heart. I have looked high and low, searched far and wide and yet I feel alone. No I am not lonely, I am excited about my life. However, when I scour the web looking for information and support related to adoption. I end up running into …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
What sticks out the most in the bible about adoption. Is it the many verses that come to mind about God loving us and accepting us as part of his family, like I’ve talked about before? Is it the idea that you receive all the benefits of heaven despite your sinful nature? I …
“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, …
“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 …
“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 …
Today our friends from Minnesota are going to meet their new 3 children from Colombia. On tuesday the Dressels flew to Bogota, (just a couple days after a massive hail storm flooded the streets with icy water and caused serious chaos in Bogota, check out the video below, it is in spanish but you …