October is a big month in our house. It is Down Syndrome Awareness month as well as Breast Cancer Awareness month. Tell me, are you AWARE...

Do you still check here? Do you wonder if I will ever write again? Believe me, sometimes I wonder the same. Life has been beyond busy for u...

I don't know why it is, but Angela only likes boy clothes. Unfortunately for her boy jeans don't come with room in the hips and sea...

There is a really neat dog park near us. 25 acres of dense woods with groomed walking trails, a large open field for playing a good game of...

Tomorrow is goodbye and I'm having a very rough time with it. Tomorrow we will say goodbye to our dear companion Dudley. How wrong it...

We did it! Today we signed a purchase agreement on our new home! Of course, it is contingent on the sale of our current home, but still. OM...

A couple years ago I had a dream. One of those very vivid dreams when you wake up and can't believe it wasn't real. In my dream I w...

 Please join us in welcoming Amos to our family!   "Amos" (not his real name) is 10 years old and, like our other kids at ...

There are lots of big secrets in the adoption community. The first is that adoption can be hard. Really hard. The easy part of the adoptio...

For as long as we have been part of the adoption community - a year or so prior to our first adoption - we have known there was a need for ...

Imagine walking through the city streets of Anywhere, USA when you encounter a group of homeless street children begging for food or money....

Four years ago, my friend Hope Anne and I became very close phone friends as she prepared to travel to Ukraine to adopt her new daughter ...

When we brought Abel home two years ago, we had all the boys in the second bedroom and Angela was still in the basement bedroom. Some of yo...

Happy Mother's Day to all the moms reading! There are probably some new readers here who have come from the Pioneer Press article abo...

Dean and I recently made a really big decision. Although I am very excited about the possibilities ahead of us, the work involved may c...

Audrey and Abel had their surgery on April 7th. On Saturday I took Angela shopping for her prom dress. On Sunday Dean went down to Ariz...

I don't know how many times I have come to update, only to realize I have no idea where to start. There is SO MUCH going on in the Gard...

What do you do when your prosthetic boob falls out of your bra and onto your feet in the grocery store? Why, pick it up and put it back in ...

Today was one of those days... ...when I realize there are 562 chromosomes in my living room. (10 kids x 47 + 2 moms x 46) Oh, and two da...

Remember when I asked " What should I do? " Between the comments here and on Facebook, there were some great suggestions, even ...