Lux et umbra vicissum…

God is so good!!!! In the mail today were the papers from the judge saying that Desta and Eli are officially ours by the laws of the state of Virginia, their names are officially changed as are their birth dates, and we can look for Virginia birth certificates to be arriving in the mail for […]

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When a trip to Ethiopia with AWOP (African Widows and Orphans Project) was planned for earlier in the year, Joel & I prayed about it quite a bit and determined that we felt a very strong leading for me to go along. That trip fell through for me when the people leading it found good […]

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I just got word that AWOP’s next trip, the one I had asked to go on but which hadn’t been planned until today, will be May 14th through the 26th. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ok. Time to go take a shower. That’s the only way I get real down time to pray about things. 🙂

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I’ve hardly been online today because we wanted to take advantage of the sunny weather to get our garden ready. My mother will be coming at the end of next week with ten beef steak tomato plants (I think), two cherry tomato plants, and two bell peppers. I also got seeds for Bush Champion cucumbers, […]

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listing to port – writing out your to-do list until it drives you to drink

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1. Biting toes can only get you so far.  Prancing around pretending to bite toes will get you so much farther.  Especially if you don’t slip up and actually bite them in the process. 2. NEVER pee on the floor.  Play, yes.  Sleep, yes.  Pee, no.  Neither should you poop.  These things should be done […]

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Charis: (as she sits on the couch in our living room) Where is the whole world? Me: Well, honey, it’s all around us.  It’s everything you can see as you look around. Charis: (later)  The whole world is in our living room!!! The following was a dinner discussion… since I can’t remember which child said […]

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It’s funny, but especially within the first several months after bringing Desta & Eli home, one of the most common comments I heard was, “Wow!  They already call you mommy!  That’s wonderful!”  It sounded funny to me every time, though I didn’t really think about it that much the first couple of times it was […]

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http://www.cafepress.com/familyhope In time for Mother’s Day, too, so look for gifts there! I wanted to name our store “Help the Whelps!” but Joel thought some people might not be as amused by that as I was. So we settled on “Families of Hope” which is inoffensive, I think. I’m not sure why we had to […]

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Cowboarding – much like waterboarding, only as you lay blindfolded you have a cow dumped on your head

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