Five years home today… Five years in a familyFive years as a sonFive years as a brotherFive years of growthFive years of loveFive years, with many more to go. Happy Family day, baby J!

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth, and too small for anything but LOVE. ~ William Sloane Coffin

Playing “being in jail” at the Bible museum. Everyone wants to be close to grandma… Big sister did her hair. She has quite the knack for makeup… Chocolate lover… Working hard together… Reading books with grandma… Who doesn’t love chocolate? Sleeping mask… She loves being in our bed. Donuts with my babies. Busted, unicorn.

One of tiny P’s favorite things is when we play with other friends who have g-tubes or brave scars…she is very proud of all the things that make her her, and she loves to show off her scar to her other little heart friends. She had been asking for a baby that looked like her…

Hope is not the belief that things will turn out well, but the belief that God is working through all things, no matter how things turn out. ~ Ann Voskamp

Just five weeks after we brought our tiny P home, she developed an abscess under several teeth, and she became very sick very quickly, so we had to take her to the hospital right away. She was admitted, and needed emergency surgery to remove the abscess… once they got in, they found that most of…