We have never really minded our kids getting in bed with us.  We have always kind of liked the extra snuggle time.  However, that was when it was one child climbing in in the middle of the night.  Recently we have had 3 children in the bed very consistently.  5 in the bed is just [...]

It was absolutely an extra special Christmas this year. Of course one of the highlights of every Christmas for me is watching my kids be a part of our church’s Christmas pageant.  I’m always a bit nervous about their behavior in front of the crowd, and you may remember the wrestling sheep we had a [...]

My New Year’s Resolution was to blog more.  Since it has been 2012 for 10 days now and this is the first blog that I have written, I don’t think I’m doing too great so far.  It isn’t because I have nothing to write about, because my circus is as active as ever, but any [...]

This morning I decided to take Hannah to our “measuring wall”.  I figured I would see some growth, but I was shocked! She is still eating nonstop, which makes a little more sense now.  Her body has needed all that fuel! She has just slid right into our family like she has been here forever. [...]

If you have been reading my blog for a while, you might remember that my husband has struggled with being able to pick the correct pull ups.  Not once, but twice, he bought pink pull ups for D.   So I would have thought that the shame of me blogging about this TWO times would [...]

I never publicly shared this part of Hannah’s story, but when we got her referral, we were told that she had a faint positive on her Hepatitis C test.  In fact, I believe the whole reason that her referral came to us is because of that Hepatitis test.  There were certainly families that had been [...]

I really wanted to get this up yesterday, but since my life like now is kind of busy (a.k.a. insanely busy), that didn’t happen.  Regardless, it was a special day around here.  Hannah has been with us for one month! It has been absolutely wonderful to be with her for the past month.  The love [...]

Oh how much better it feels to be getting sleep!  Finally, after 2 weeks home we are all sleeping during the hours we should be sleeping.  Thank goodness!  I had no idea how hard it would be to re-adjust to EST! It has been fun watching Hannah day by day.  I can already tell that [...]

First of all, Hannah is doing great. I think that she is adjusting as well as she possibly could be. She is sleeping, eating, playing, and affectionate with us all. We are so thrilled to have her here with us. There is no way around it though. This week was HARD. Adjusting to 4 kids [...]

As wonderful as it is to be home, which it absolutely is, these past few days have been tough.  Hannah seems to be adjusting to the time change the best of any of us.  The rest of us, however, are really having a hard time with this jet lag.  In the past 5 nights, I [...]