We are a family of 15. We don’t go all the places we used to. For the last few years we’ve been taking two cars most places because we outgrew the old Sprinter a few kiddos back. We began praying over a solution as a family, and I asked for prayer from my prayer partners as well, knowing God could… Read More
giving thanks
I have always loved Thanksgiving. Gathering family from near and far around the table to enjoy the yummiest food of the year. And celebrating all the good things while tracing them all back to His hand. This year we had some especially good stuff to celebrate. Six months home with Magnolia. In that short time we’ve witnessed her receiving and… Read More
Halloween 2016
We love tradition. And we especially love traditions around holidays as a way to kindle memory-making for our children, and to just plain make things fun. Halloween, however, is one holiday that has been challenging. I have great memories of Halloween as a kid – sooo, as much candy as I can carry, I just have to put on a… Read More
Catching up.
About a year ago, give or take a few days, I did one big catch up post. A whopper of a post that covered the end of one school year and the beginning of another because, well… life. And this year is even crazier than last year. With the addition of our constantly curious Magnolia, spare time is hard to… Read More
to China for Clementine – my favorites: silks
Here we go, finally getting to the end (the end!) of editing and cataloguing my favorite pictures from our time in China with Clementine. No, not Magnolia… Clementine. I’m just going to get this out there, y’all. This little corner of cyberspace has been sorely neglected. Lots of things have resulted in this sad state of affairs: homeschooling nine, a… Read More
To China for Magnolia: Pedestrian Street
It was just over a year and a half ago that we stood in this same place – Clementine and I. I wasn’t able to put her down because, even though she was 19 months old, she could not walk. She could not stand. She could not crawl. And even if I could have put her down physically, I could… Read More
To China for Magnolia: the Zoo
Y’all. It is so good to be home. And one reason (albeit a teeny tiny one compared to being able to squeeze my babies at any given moment and sleep in my own admittedly crowded bed) is this: The interwebs. There is no VPN required, no wireless kicking on and off, no overloaded data plan, no upload errors, no timing… Read More
To China for Magnolia: Time
36 hours from now we will be leaving this place. So many pictures I want to share, so many words I want to write. But that all takes time. Time I really don’t have right now. Because mama is busy. Yes, I have lots of help when it comes to bubble-blowing, carrying groceries and giving wild piggy-back rides up and… Read More
To China for Magnolia: the Park
We had the option of going to visit a Buddhist temple or hanging out on Shamian Island for the afternoon. One guess which we chose. My boys have such fond memories of this place as Asher and I stayed on the island when we traveled for Vivienne and Dalton and I stayed here when we traveled for Tallula. Many ice… Read More
To China for Magnolia: Bubbles
Ph, brave girl. As we left the Civil Affairs office, the tears came. Thankfully the van ride back to the hotel proved to be a great distraction, most likely due to her silly siblings, all trying their very best to make her smile. But after the silly subsided, and we got settled at the hotel, she was understandably serious again…. Read More
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