Spring is here!!
or so the calendar says So my family and I just returned from an early spring break to visit our son, daughter-in-love, and grandbaby! They live in New Mexico….we, on the other hand, live in Michigan. Temperatures were quite different! It is decidedly colder here today – but sunny and I will take the sun!! We went earlier than the scheduled spring break our little ones have because Greg has to work this spring break and we wanted our older daughters to be able to join us so we went during their spring break. What a great time having most of our family together! Grace couldn’t come until the day…
8 tips to help those who are thinking about adopting
Advice on Adoption from a 5 time Adoptive Mom The complex makeup of our family Our family is a large, complicated, much loved, and diverse one. We have a total of 8 children – 5 are adopted and 3 are biological. Each one of these childeren were meant to be in our family. God has gifted our family with all its highs and lows. His fingerprints were over each and everyone of their stories. It has been 22 years since we adopted our first child and 11 since our last. How we became a family: Caleb is our oldest and born with the help of months of infertility treatments. …
Favorite things – March edition
Time for another month of my favorite things! Wow I know that February is the shortest month of the year – but WHERE’D IT GO!?!?!!? It’s the first Monday of the month and it’s time to share my top 5 favorite things! It is still brutally cold here in Michigan so one of my top items is still being used frequently! 🙂 Let’s get started! #1: Ikea Fintorp storage caddy I’ve seen this storage caddy used in SO many ways! I personally use it in 2 different places in our home – one in our office and another at our coffee bar. You could use it in a craft…