Day in the Life

  • this is how we do it…

    Oh my. I feel like every day is a lifetime. I have much to share from our last few days–but this momma is wiped out. My parents have come and gone. Papa was a HIT with T. We kayaked. We swam. We started her scrapbook. We figured out a better way to communicate (thanks to […]

  • 157 pictures later…

    So–we started our day on such a GREAT note–and I truly feel it has to be linked on how we ended our day yesterday. Wow. I feel like my summer days are each a lifetime as we cover so much ground. If you have adopted a teenager before from another country, you know how hard […]

  • You are a miracle too… {hold the phone–cause we’ve had a break through}

    I haven’t been able to blog the last couple of days–because honestly I haven’t known what to say or how much of any of our last 2 days I would want to document. They have been very stressful, and some of the more difficult days of my 8 years of parenting. And parenting a teenager […]

  • let momma eat chocolate…

    There are just 2 things I will say… 1. Age appropriate. When you bring a 15 year old who has lived without parents, boundaries and love for 15 years–you should expect the behavior of a little/big one who has lived without this for 15 years. 2. Momma said there’d be days like this…so–stuff your face […]

  • More than just our toes are wet…

    Sooo…today we started our day by heading over to my dear friend Susan Hillis’s home. (That is AFTER we had our now usual–scrambled eggs and toast!) Susan is my dear friend who speaks fluent Russian–so I knew we’d get knee deep today spending the day really getting to know one another. AND we were planning […]