Let’s get hypothetical for a moment, shall we? Let’s imagine that abortions go away. Either Roe vs. Wade is overturned or God moves mightily to answer the prayers of millions in the pro-life movement. Since roughly 1.2 million abortions are performed every year, that would mean 1.2 million more babies. Statistically, speaking about 2% of […]
Category Archives: Adoption and Orphan Care
From the mouth of Ty
At prayer time tonight… Ty: Jesus, dank you I had… What’s dat called ‘gain, Mom? Me: What is what called again? Ty: Pich Me: Pitch? Ty: No, piiiich (pinching fingers together) Me: Pinch? Ty: No. Missue. Me: Miss Sue? Ty: Yah. Dank you ‘at Miss Sue today. Me: Ooooooh. Speech. Is that what you were […]
Mom's Night Out Miracle
I wish I was better at putting down on paper screen how many ways God has shown His faithfulness in our journey to get Grafted Families up and running. But I’m not. So you’ll just have to deal with what I have. I just posted an entry here at our Grafted Families blog about our […]
Stepping out in faith
Have you ever felt like God was nudging you in a certain direction? We have. Have you ever felt like going that certain direction was going to be risky (by the world’s view, at least)? We have. Have you ever felt a strange peace about going down the risky path because you understand it’s where […]
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Adoption Aside
As Ty picks up more grammar, phraseology, and vocabulary, we are becoming a bilingual family. Our second language is Ty-ese. While receptive and comprehensive abilities have made huge improvements (our therapists and specialists say they’ve never seen such a large jump in such a short period of time…then again, maybe because they’ve never worked with an […]
Christmas Came Early
Unlike the processes in many other foreign countries that allow children to be adopted into U.S. families, nothing legal happened while we were in Korea. I mean we didn’t do anything illegal. I just mean we didn’t appear before a judge, there was no courtroom, and no final adoption. We merely gained custody. Maybe the […]
Speech Milestones
When I returned home from my weekend away last week, Ty and Patrick were super-excited to show me that they had mastered “bagel” while I was away. “So what?” While Ty’s speech has come very far in the last 6 months, he struggles with poor enunciation. Being smart and strong-willed, he has figured out when […]