Somehow I’ve known this day would come, even though I really hoped it wouldn’t. When we first felt God asking us to spend more than a week in Nicaragua, we wondered how we would make it happen financially. “We absolutely can not ask people to give us money,” was my answer. My husband didn’t want […]
Looking for an adoption care partner
A few weeks back, I wrote about how we decided to quit the game of asking adopting families for money, during the time in which they live in our home. I told you this came about after we realized how much the money stress was getting to us… But there are a few more things […]
If you wouldn’t say it about a boob job…
We got some pretty strange looks and heard some ridiculous statements when we were doing foster care. While I could handle most comments, we cared for school-age kids who absolutely felt the pain of those words and the sting of the stares. Working with adopting families here in Nicaragua has reinforced how clueless we can […]
We Quit
We’re almost nine months into our second year here, living in a house that is way too big for our family alone so we can work in adoption care. We’ve had one new missionary family and four adopting families stay with us so far, but we’ve been “empty” since the middle of February. We’re excited […]