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For This Child I Have Prayed, and The Lord Has Heard My Prayer

The Story of Samuel I have been trying to find time to write Samuel’s adoption story for several weeks, but I have a newborn (haha). He is 8 weeks old now and we are just so incredibly blessed. I recently looked through a photo album I am creating of him and several times I said,Continue reading “For This Child I Have Prayed, and The Lord Has Heard My Prayer”

The Best is Yet to Come

I usually only blog when I feel compelled to and I feel compelled to today. For the last 7-8 months, we have been on a journey to be licensed to foster to adopt. The process can look different from state to state. In Texas, foster care is privatized so you cannot foster directly through theContinue reading “The Best is Yet to Come”

The Fog is Clearing

A lot has happened over the last couple of months. My mom had hip surgery and we cared for her, we had Covid, Sean’s uncle who we were really close to passed away unexpectedly and too early in life, we planned his funeral and flew to CA twice in a month, and I got hiredContinue reading “The Fog is Clearing”

Some Days are Dark

I should be working on my schoolwork right now. I set goals for myself and I need to accomplish them. However, here I am writing about my pain. I recently studied Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. If all of your needs are not met in one level, you are stuck at that level. One of ourContinue reading “Some Days are Dark”

Enlarge Your House

For several days, I have been feeling strongly that God wanted me to write another blog post. And that I needed to “tell my story” and “be honest”. Honestly, I started this blog for the very same reasons- that I felt led to. It is difficult for me to share this journey, at times, becauseContinue reading “Enlarge Your House”

The Meaning in Grief

I made a commitment to myself and to God to blog once a month about our adoption story. I realized it is a really hard commitment to uphold because there are things that I have not fully processed, things that I don’t want to write about, and things that are raw that I don’t wantContinue reading “The Meaning in Grief”

Holding Space

“Hope deferred makes the heart grow sick…” There are high and low moments in a fertility journey. People have compassion and love to hear how you overcame, but few people know how to hold space for the low moments when you are in them. So, those moments of discouragement and grief are sparingly shared. YouContinue reading “Holding Space”