2 Apr, 2015
Look who it is!! An online friend I met through the hosting group (Children’s Cultural Connection) arrived at Igor’s orphanage to adopt her summer host siblings. She posted this picture of Igor for me. He was on his way to school this morning when they got there. All of the kids in Ukraine dress up in suits and white shirts for school. It’s part of their culture. Igor looks so happy! I’m not sure if they told him who the picture...
18 Feb, 2015
Yesterday evening this happened: I don’t think these pictures accurately portray the size of our sledding hill. It is massive. Almost like a mountainside. So steep it was difficult to walk up it! In this video we started at the bottom third of the hill because Ada was too tired to walk up any further. Tyler made the video. In this video Tyler tried sledding. I didn’t realize that he had only been sledding once before. I don’t think he had...
Daily Life / Link Love / Proud Mama Moments / The Castle House
3 Dec, 2014
The local news came out and interviewed me about the letter. Check it out!
1 Dec, 2014
Last night Rosie was running down the stairs on her way to grab a bottle of water before getting in bed. She came back a few minutes later very upset. She was scared I would be mad because on her way down the stairs she tapped the decorative wooden ball on the top of a stair railing post…and the thing fell off with a crash. The circular thing on top was what she knocked off. They’re nailed on, but since they’re...
Animal Tales / Daily Life / Farming Life at The Cabin / The Cabin
3 Aug, 2013
Our evenings in 15 seconds of Instagram video:
Animal Tales / Pregnancy / The Cabin
26 Jul, 2013
I was 39 weeks yesterday! (My ticker is off by a day.) Rosie was born by now. Ada still had three days to go. I wonder what Baby H will choose… This morning I woke up feeling not pregnant at all. Like full of energy, not even sick. Weird? I think I remember this happening right before Rosie was born also. With Ada I never felt that horrible, so it wasn’t as big of a deal. Today was apparently nesting day....
Proud Mama Moments / The Cabin
3 Jul, 2013
Look at this video I made of Rosie learning to ride her bike for the first time! I made it with my 5d Mark II instead of the iPhone. It was fun, I’ll have to practice making more videos with it. Rosie thinks the part with Ada at the end is the best, she laughs so hard every time she watches it. (It should be HD quality and is on YouTube, but when I post it on the entry...
Adoption & Hosting / Daily Life / Pregnancy
30 Nov, 2012
Ticker says 5 weeks today. Fertility Friend says 4 weeks, 6 days. I’m still pregnant. It’s going by SO SLOW. I hate these first few months. I think the hard part is feeling physically awful while feeling like the idea of a baby is so disconnected from reality. There’s no evidence of what will (hopefully) be a squishy, adorable baby. I’m feeling weird–sometimes sick but only in that super empty stomach way, not in the motion sick want to die way....
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