Day 114

One major adjustment has been getting into a good routine with the girls’ hair. Kayla is pretty independent but Grace still needs help styling her. While hair day only happens every 7 to 10 days, it’s almost an entire day by the time she “opens” her current style, detangles, washes, and we re-style. One of […]

Day 108

We have the best friends ever. They organized an amazing night of scrumptious food and wine to help us offset the cost of the adoptions.

The Truth of the Matter

If I had a dollar for every time we’ve been asked, “How is everything going?” we may be able to put our kids through college.  Okay, not really, but you get the idea. So how is everything going? I normally answer that we’re doing really well.  And we are. On one hand, in the grand scheme […]

Day 69

I’ve found it’s really important to intentionally meet Ty’s sensory needs throughout the day or we all pay the price. The newest trick is to lay on him while we do our read aloud for the day.

Day 66

Our last day in Ethiopia was filled with goodbyes. First at her orphanage and then at her grandma’s where her cousins and neighborhood girlfriends came to wish her the best.

We have Grace!

After a less than comfy ride to Addis, we freshened up at the guest house and, then, headed to Abenezer to pick up Grace. We hung out with the kids there while she took lots of pictures and said good-bye to her friends and nannies. For dinner, we at Habesha (Ethiopian), of course! Grace couldn’t […]