when east meets south
This girl is fun on a regular day. But on a day like her birthday? With cake and candles and balloons and cousins and presents? No words. She loved every one of her presents: glittery Toms, a new backpack, some Signing Time DVDs and a tiny Asian family. But when it was time to move on to the cake, she… Read More
I’m not even sure exactly what to think about it yet. And I think Clementine feels the same. Some things about getting bigger she loves. Like taking care of her baby. Feeding herself. And telling her brothers and sisters what to do. But others? Well, she’s not interested. This girl is not ready to quit her bottle. And she’s not… Read More
Monday was World Down Syndrome Day. A day that, just a few years ago, we had no idea even existed. But now? Well, this family has a whole lot to celebrate. I’ve tried to chronicle our journey pretty transparently here. So if you’ve followed our story for long, you know that before Clementine came home this mama was crazy scared… Read More
Five short weeks ago we launched our fundraising effort to bring Magnolia home: Known By Heart. Incredibly, astoundingly, over $26,500 has been donated so far. Which honestly makes me want to jump up and down. In fact, I might have done that a few times in the last several weeks, just praising God for His faithful provision through the generosity… Read More
We recently celebrated Jude’s 10th birthday. And, as the birthday-to-be boy, Jude got to choose his party favors. And he asked for Silly String. Normally I wouldn’t agree to a request so, well… messy. And not a request so expensive (because $3.50 times 10 ain’t happening for a party favor in this house). But seeing as he was turning double… Read More
Almost 14 months home. And it’s hard to remember a day without you. Today you got your hair done by your big sister, Sophie. And you’re were feeling pretty grown up about it, too. And, evidently, when you’re big and all, you need to talk on the phone a lot. Have important conversations. You know, serious ones. The kind all… Read More
We continued this year with our theme of breaking away from our traditional Christmases past. And we continue to be surprised at how the Lord has blessed our meager efforts to reprioritize our time, our energy and our spending. We completed a third year with our wonderful Advent book, every night taking turns guessing which object would be the one… Read More
One year ago today, we met this girl. Since then, well… words just don’t seem adequate. She’s amazing. She has learned to crawl (sort of), pull to stand, climb, walk and dance. She had tubes placed and adenoids removed. She had a CT and 6 sedated bronchoscopies. She had tracheal-slide surgery and open-heart surgery, which required a two week hospital… Read More
We recently had a opportunity to have our family photos taken professionally. And, of course, I jumped at the chance. I shared a few of these on a post at No Hands But Ours, but there are a few more. And since this is where I *attempt* do the memory-keeping for this family o’ mine, I wanted to share them… Read More
I’ve shared before about our *ahem* spin on Halloween. This year we changed it up even more. The verdict is still out on whether or not we’ll do it this way again but, all things considering, it was a really good time. We used to do Halloween pretty traditionally. Here we are in 2008. Jude in that rainbow wig, oh… Read More