what is MOI?

Many of you often ask what exactly is MOI. So many of you are praying for us to get out of MOI and you have no idea what it is.  I’m thankful that God doesn’t care that you don’t have a clue what you are asking for!
It is the department that both kids papers are [...]

they do come home.

It is so good to see that they do actually get to come home.
Kobe is coming home.

I’m not alone in this struggle

It seems as though most of my blogging these days is about my life sucking. Sorry for the word choice mom, but seriously I could come up with much worse! Each day I think I should blog and the only thing that comes to my mind is the fact that [...]

2nd one this week

Cayden lost another tooth today!  We’ve known this one was loose for a while now, but he literally knocked it out today.  He had been in our “pool” and was on the patio and slipped and fell and I just knew we were headed the emergency room, but instead it literally knocked his tooth loose [...]

Amos turns FOUR

Yesterday was Amos’ birthday and I must say it was one of my lowest days in this whole process for me. I didn’t want the day to happen. I wanted him here for his birthday. I didn’t want him to still be there. Him and his sister need to be here. [...]

Cayden lost a tooth!

Look who lost their first tooth today!

Does your family do the tooth fairy?  If so, what do you do?  This is our first time!

almost out of MOI

For about a month now we’ve been hearing that Story might be getting close to getting out of MOI or already out.  This is such great news and such bad news.  Great news b/c once you get out you are literally about 2 big steps away from coming home.  Bad news because we have heard [...]

My pilgrimage

Today I was in my office and I reached up on the shelf to get something down and all of a sudden things started falling on my head from the shelve. Thank goodness most of them were papers, but there was one thing that was a little larger and thankfully it wasn’t anything large, [...]

Jon & Kate plus 8 on the rocks …

A few years ago I gave up buying those magazines that you see in the check out line at the grocery store. I mean why do I need to spend $3.99 on a magazine about people I don’t even know! Seriously! It is a waste of money.
BUT today I had to break [...]

Cooking this weekend

We had guests this weekend and that means I brought out some new recipes for them!!! Here’s what we had and how we liked it:
1. WHOLE WHEAT SHELLS W/ ASPARAGUS, PEAS, FETA AND MINT – I got this recipe out of the April issue of our Vegetarian Times magazine. It was super [...]