A year ago

Tigist was recently invited to a tea party hosted by one of her friends at church.  The night before we sat down and painted our nails and talked about how fun it was going to be to dress up fancy and drink tea from beautiful dishes. 
After I put her to bed, I couldn’t help but [...]

Together for Adoption

Hopefully we’ll be attending this conference again this fall.  We encourage you to visit the website www.togetherforadoption.org

Footsteps. . .

I love seeing this picture of our family’s feet.  It reminds my of the pitter-pattering I so longed for in years past.  Late last night I finished the book ADOPTED FOR LIFE by Russell D. Moore.  What I read is quite possibly one of the most impacting and compelling books on the case for adoption.  [...]

Biblical Approaches to Attachment -Follow-up

This follow-up post has been a long time coming.  But over the last few weeks I’ve been able to read some great articles, excerpts from books, and have some great conversations with those much wiser then myself.  One thing I have realized though is that I was trying to combat two totally different issues in [...]

Biblical Approaches to Attachment

I’m planning on doing a follow-up to the previous post on this subject, and would really love to hear from some more people on their ideas.  Thank you Dr.  Arthur Becker-Weidman  for commenting as well.  My hope is to include your suggestions for improving attachment along with others professional advice  in my follow-up post.   It was interesting [...]

English Acquisition: Revisted

Any guesses as to what my children were attempting to convey with the following words??  (I figured it out, I just thought it’d be fun to hear everyone elses interpretations)
Fikadu: “Mommy, upstairs water coming.”
Tigist: “Baby Jesus, Mommy kiss.”  (Hint: She’s pointing to something on her while saying this)
***Answers***
Fikadu was looking out the window and explaining [...]

Biblical Approaches to Attachment

Writing on this blog has become highly therapeutic.  There are days that I need to remember the good and others I need to process the difficult.  It’s been good to look back at the fun posts over the past 5 weeks, laugh, and see evidences of God’s grace at work.  
So today I’m writing again to [...]

English Acquisition

After being home three weeks now our children have acquired quite the impressive set of English vocabulary.  They came knowing the following :
1.  Body parts in the song “Head and Shoulders, Knees and Toes,” 
2. Three classifications of animals: dog, cat, and horse (Fikadu also knew frog and all other reptiles fit in that category.)
3. Hello, Goodbye
4. I [...]

Pooping Butterflies

One of my absolute favorite lines from the movie “Horton Hears a Who” is when Horton’s little friends come running up to him with their pretend worlds on specks.  His friend Katy says, “In my world everyone is a pony, and they eat rainbows, and poop butterflies!” 
Well one benefit of adopting older children is skipping [...]

What’s in a Name?

Being called mom has been one of the greatest joys I’ve experienced so far.  Hearing our children call out Mommy, Daddy, is something that daily I delight in now.  It has been incredible to see how easily our children have taken to using these names as they address us.  Before traveling to Ethiopia I wondered [...]