If you follow us on instagram, you already know this- we are moving back stateside!
Actually, as I write this, I am on a flight from Guam to Hawaii. We will spend a couple weeks in Denver and then head to San Antonio where Adam will start his new job at the beginning of October.
Saipan has been… well, it’s been everything. Good and hard and amazing and terrible and beautiful. And mostly I just can’t believe it’s over.
See ya later, Saipan. Wow are we going to miss you!
As you probably guessed, we weren’t quite planning on the summer being this quiet, blog wise. As you also probably guessed, the adoption that fell through in May hit us pretty hard as a family, which is the main contributor to the radio silence. The other primary contributor is that I just haven’t really had many […]
The birth mom has changed her mind- we will not be adopting her baby girl after all. I hate writing those words, hate the heart break our family is grappling with right now, hate knowing that the “explosion of baby girl stuff” that currently occupies every corner of our home will not ever meet it’s […]
This day, y’all. The one that changed everything. It seems crazy that the hardest hard in the whole world- Christ bearing in death the punishment for sins He did not commit- gives way to the greatest gift and the grandest grace and the most true cause for celebration of all time. This resurrection that we celebrate […]
Whoa fall. Every time I think about what these last three months looked like (and just how different that was from what I anticipated them looking like), I laugh a little. Y’all, our house and stuff. Destroyed. By a typhoon. It sounds a little ridiculous, right? And yet Soudelor. And this fall. I have to […]
Hello there friends! I am FINALLY sitting down to play catch up on all of the things- blog things, etsy things, email (UGH!). Turns out, an unplanned month long hiatus from the internet (when you work online) results in quite the backlog- haha. Thank you for your notes, your care, and especially your prayers over […]
This post has been in the works for almost two weeks. Every time I sit down to actually write, no words come to me. On Sunday, August 2, Typhoon Soudelor tore through our small island home of Saipan. And guys, it left devastation everywhere. Everywhere. We are no stranger to typhoons and tropical storms. In fact, this […]
I always imagine that being unplugged from all internet and cell service and media for a little while would be refreshing and wonderful- filled with iced coffee topped with sprinkles. And hammocks. But when our island was entirely cut off from the outside world and plunged unexpectedly to a few weeks of forced unplugged-ness, it […]
With as much as I love birthday parties and the chance to celebrate the year that’s past and the one to come, my kids’ birthdays are pretty hard on this mama’s heart. I am both absolutely smitten with the stage that Burke is in right now- all personality and curiousity and keen observations and hilarity, and also […]
