Five months ago today Asher and I stepped off that last plane and our new life together as a family began. The journey to get Asher eating s...

No, I have no good secrets to tell, only my opinion of keeping certain secrets. Some secrets, when kept, cause more damage until the secret ...

Many years ago (13 in fact, which feels like "many"!)  I was driving to the nearest mall with all my kids + 1 friend in the car. A...

Asher has terrible feet. Angela's are next on the list, and Axel's are pretty darned good! One of the problems with Asher's fe...

Angela, Axel, Asher and I walk into Target together. Angela usually takes the lead, Asher holds my hand and Axel walks about 10 feet behind ...

People frequently contact me with questions about adopting a child with special needs. I'm thrilled there are so many people who are in...

Wow! I am so excited to see how many people are interested in adopting from Serbia! If you're new here and looking for information, I...

All three of our youngest kids have some sort of virus. We have no idea what it is. Here are the symptoms: 1) exceptionally pleasant upon ...

Trying to catch up a little bit with this post, so lets go back to Spring Break which for us was the last week of March. The kids weren'...

If you have a boy with a disability who EVER uses a public restroom, well Dave over at Rolling Around in my Head has a blog post you should ...

A couple weeks ago I started school. I was very excited that first day. Do you know what I've learned? Every day is like the first day a...

It's never happened to me before. Asher and I were in the store check-out line. In front of us was a young mom with a boy around 7 yea...

It's the first day of practice for this: And since we no longer have any of this: We now have a lot of these: Since b...

If you don't follow me on Facebook, then you missed the excitement that happened on Monday. I had just given the big kids left-over East...

I'm frustrated. How's that for an introductory sentence? I know lots of kids with DS who were adopted older who are talking. ...

I've been following my friend Ashlee's blog for quite some time. They domestically adopted the most adorable little guy, Noah, when ...

A couple posts ago, someone asked in the comments if anyone follows my blog from the boys' Serbian life? I thought this was a good opp...

In my previous post I mentioned I would eventually share a link to the blog belonging to a family who is adopting from Serbia. The Breens ar...

On Wednesday, March 14th, our friend Wally Johnson was in a near-fatal motorcycle accident in Buffalo, MN.  His list of injuries included: ...