I stand him on top of his changing table so that he can look in the mirror that hangs above it. When I dreamt of a nursery, of his nursery, this is what I saw in my mind’s eye. The two of us, ha...
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It’s amazing to think of how much he grew and changed in 2011. In January, before I went back to work, we had our first playdate with some of our adoption buddies: In February we went to Atlanta...
read more..Sweet Harry, I know that I said your final monthly update would be last month, at 12 months, but you’re still changing and growing so much every day that I feel like if I don’t do this, I&...
read more..Harry loves music. Loves.it. His birthmom told me that whenever she’d play music he’d move around in her belly like never before. When my dad was here last month, he pulled my guitar (whic...
read more..I haven’t stopped thinking about this video since I watched it: It’s powerful, to me, for two reasons. 1. The miracle of adoption is making a family out people who otherwise wouldn’t...
read more..In 1 Peter, he writes that we must always be ready to give a response for our faith. We must always be prepared to give an answer for the hope that we have (1 Peter 3:15). Over the past year I’v...
read more..I was worried for weeks that we’d get a huge snow storm on the day of Harry’s party, and it would be me, Aaron, my dad and stepmom, and a few dozen cupcakes to celebrate Harry’s birt...
read more..How do I encompass the past year in one post? How do I adequately express the way that our lives have changed, from the subtle to the extraordinary, in 500 pithy words? I guess I don’t. As I was...
read more..Sweet boy, Today’s the big day! You are one year old. Later this afternoon our friends and family will gather here in our home to celebrate YOU. It’s gonna be a great day. I’m going ...
read more..Even now, almost a year later, it’s sometimes hard for me to believe he’s real. That he’s really here; really a part of our lives. Really our son. Even as I stare at a row of picture...
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