This week (and next….and the next) is our big Birthday time! My birthday was on Monday, Lydia’s is tomorrow, Gwen’s is next Wednesday and Sam’s is the week after that.
Lydia brought me to tears this week as we were driving to school one morning. Gwen knew it had been my birthday and she […]

Lydia and the Tooth Fairy are very close friends. The Tooth Fairy (or “Tango Foxtrot” as Doug calls her) has visited SIX times since Lydia joined our family last November! The first was for her surgery at St Louis Children’s. She left Lydia a WHOPPING $10 per tooth there, much to Mama […]

Recently my dad dug up some old photos of me taken in 1983. I was 8…or just about to turn 8. Gwen is only 4, just about to turn 5, but man, she looks a lot like me. There’s something in her eyes that screams “DOUG!” as well, but I can’t pinpoint […]

We are DTC (dossier to China) for Samuel!!! We are now waiting for our LID (log in date) to confirm that the dossier arrived safely and is logged into the system. Then the 90-or-so day wait begins for our LOA (Letter of Acceptance) to be received and TA (Travel Approval) to be issued.
Here’s […]

So, we have friends - Kevin and Debbie - who were adopting a baby girl from China. They were about to get their referral, within a couple months anyway, when they looked at their agency’s special needs list and felt very drawn to Yan, a 13 1/2 year old girl waiting in Nanjing, the […]