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Emma has a friend over today for a play date.  They are having so much fun.  Outside riding john deers and playing in the water.  Izzie just got up from her nap and we are sitting downstairs snuggling on the couch watching Max and Ruby when in walks Emma and her friend with our summer…

It is very hard being an adoptive parent in the waiting.  I have never physically met the Howertons but they hold such a special place in my heart.  Their son Keanan, lives with Frankie at the Maranatha Childrens Home.  They in the past have even shared the same nannie.  Frankie and Keanan are brothers and…

I just posted this morning about Tara and her quest to raise money to run a Marathon.  I read tonight on Real Hope For Haiti’s Blog some fuller details about the medika mamba program and wanted to post it in it’s entirety before I move on to another subject.  So here it is… again, amazing things……

Have to pass this on.  Troy and Tara were the family that hosted our group on our trip to Haiti last May.  They are incredible people.  So down to earth and real and well… if Dave and I were called to live in Haiti, I imagine our lives would look so similar to theirs (less children…

Dave was an incredible soccer player in his day.  I hate that I missed a big chunk of that part of his life.  I never saw him play in college.  By the time we started dating he had gone down with his second ACL injury that ended his soccer career. I never played soccer so I…

Two of Frankie’s friends/brothers are heading home.  I’ve met these boys a few times now and am thrilled that they are homeward bound.  Esaie & Isaac, pictured with their new family the Millers, left a few days ago for their new home in Maryland.  John from his blog wrote “We are so thrilled that these brothers are…

One of the MANY reasons that I am THE BEST MOM EVER.  Look what I serve for breakfast around here.

It has been a while.  I often wonder if people even care that I post?  I mean it’s good for me to get my thoughts down but it’s funny because my life is a walking Blog and I post lots during the day in my head and lately I just feel like, I don’t think…

BIG NEWS – Just found out We are IN.. IBESR that is!!!!!  Papers were submitted April 24, 2009.  7 months after our papers arriving in Haiti… we are in the system!!!  This is a HUGE day for our family and we continue to pray for all those still waiting to be submitted…. We’ve got a…

Mothers Day…. Hand Painted Flowers from Izzie A Flower Pot From Emma A special decorated cake from the girls Many thoughts of our Haitian Sensation And a picture with my husband with his eye’s closed (shocker) Could not ask for anything more….  I”ve had such a wonderful Mothers Day Weekend.  I am so blessed to…