If we aren’t friends on Facebook, and I haven’t seen you at a playdate this week, you may have missed the fact that we received a call on Wednesday that we’ve been assigned a COURT DATE for our son! We’re still waiting to hear when our daughter’s court date is and praying that it is […]
We truly believe that not every family is called to adopt but that every one who claims to love Jesus should be doing something to care for orphans and vulnerable children. Before you let your blood pressure start to rise or start typing an argument, let me assure you that the possible ways to impact […]
We are excited to announce that we have been matched with 2 unrelated children, one boy and one girl, both approximately 14 years of age. That is about all we can disclose until we pass court in Ethiopia and they are legally Corkums. So now what? We wait to be assigned a court date which […]
If you haven’t done so, I highly recommend reading whatever you read before your child came home again…after the fact. We’re in the middle of 7 weeks of homework for an upcoming training and I just reread a book that I’ve always believed in, The Connected Child: Bring hope and healing to your adoptive family. […]
It’s times like these that I really wish there was a better way to be a fly on the wall of our life than this blog. My fear is that typed words cannot paint the picture of the story I want to tell with all its nuances and intricacies. My fear is that it’s really too […]
Five years ago, even though we didn’t know it, our bouncy, pouncy, Ty-ger of a child entered the world albeit 15 weeks early. He joined our family at 2 1/2 years old and our lives haven’t been the same. Unlike our other two, he didn’t respond to cause-effect discipline or intuitively learn anything. We still […]
Because November is National Adoption Month, I’d be remiss in not blogging about it or at least giving an update on Ty (and our current adoption process). On paper, Ty’s almost 5. There’s one camp that see him as 5 and expect him to act that way. They lay out how he should be acting based […]
Our long home study interview was today. Each agency and country is different, but this will be 2 of 4 (our orientation meeting at our agency counted as #1). Again, since each agency and country is different, your interview will probably look a little bit different but this is how ours went today. Our social […]