Day in the Life

  • january…

    it’s been a full january…and we have 1 of 2 created for care adoption momma retreats under our belts. IT WAS ANOTHER AMAZING RETREAT! we had tona ottinger, carissa woodwyk and amy monroe share during the main sessions and about 20 AMAZING mommas come share for breakouts. it really was an amazing retreat. the day […]

  • I will not be moved… {Standing firm as you step forward in ministry}

    I sink my heels in and move the dirt back and forth. I press the weight into each foot as I slowly grind my feet back and forth. The waters have come–there’s no doubting from where–and while I’m tempted to cover my eyes and scream, “Just tell me when it is over!” or run and […]

  • Edgar Needs a Family

    My precious friend Stacey Maljian, a volunteer with New Horizons for Children–the same organization we partnered with to host this summer, emailed me a couple of weeks ago to ask if I would help advocate for some of the children in the winter program who are available for adoption–but were not able to be adopted […]

  • Catching up…with the Young crew

    Dearest children. One day momma is gonna make this blog into blog-to-book–so you can look back and read all about our crazy. And unfortunately momma hasn’t been able to blog in the last week or so. Gonna try and catch up a bit right now! Oh where do I start. I totally skipped Christmas–mostly because […]

  • Another Merry Christmas:)

    We are just getting home from celebrating Christmas…yes…a few days late:) We left the house for the first time in 6 days today after all of us spent the last week knocked out with a terrible virus/cold/flu…not sure which–which consisted of aches, fevers, hugging the toilet, stuffy noses and coughing our lungs out. Sounds jolly […]