Four weeks… thats’s all we have left of Summer!At the end of August my two big babies head back to school… Baby J is going to be in pre-k. He will go half days all week. I think the routine of doing the same thing every day will be good for him, and I am…

Orphan care is less about getting a child for our family, and more about giving our family for a child, and willingly embracing the implications that come on us as a result. ~ Arrow Foundation

Is all this stuff for you? ~ cashier at TargetYes! It’s for second grade, we are back to school shopping! ~ little MWow, you guys are EARLY! ~ cashierYes, well, in my family, we just like to get things done. ~ little M. Yeah, we do. This would be better if we were llamas! ~…

Today our tiny P has been with us for ten months… Ten months…that’s only two months short of a year! A year ago, I was worried that our girl might not make it until we could get to her, and now she has been with us for ten months. Ten months ago I was worried…

They came to see that family need not be defined merely as those with whom they share blood, but those for whom they would give their blood.~ Charles Dickens

This shirt feels tight around my neck, mommy! It’s on backward, silly boy… Look mommy, I’m a prince! This girl… sometimes you just have to put on your sparkly dress and go for a bike ride. First major bruise of the Summer… The baby LOVES painting… Crafting girl… Butterfly boy… And girl. She looks pleased…

The master bathroom is so strange… there could have almost been another bedroom. It is seriously huge. And it was so, so white… So we went opposite with our painting. We went with the absence of all color, to the presence of all color. We made it black! I LOVE it. There is actually not…

It was white, and that carpet is so dark… And those curtains…what?? Changing the carpet wasn’t in the budget for now, but it is one of the things we will plan to change. We painted the walls woodsmoke, added red curtains, and everything else came from our old house. The oversized chair came from the…