Since our move to Nicaragua in July of 2012, we’ve felt compelled to offer assistance to those families traveling here to adopt orphans. Sometimes that means welcoming them into our home, finding transportation, or helping with laundry, while other times it means offering a listening ear during times of frustration or sadness. [Note that we […]
Our Work with Adoption Care
First, it’s important to understand the basic process of adopting in Nicaragua. So if you haven’t done so already, review the process before reading further. Next, read my post about why we need adoption care in Nicaragua. All caught up? Great, now here is a little more about our work with adoption care in Nicaragua: […]
Fall 2013 Update
We’ve had a busy month! After realizing that it’s almost October, I decided it was a good time for an update post. Our House Our furniture is now all in place! Thank you to everyone who helped me this house a reality! We started September hosting a new missionary family. They came to Nicaragua to […]
parenting, MKs, and seasons
Can we talk a bit about doing this whole missionary thing as parents? It’s absolutely wonderful to share this adventure with your kids… but what happens when they aren’t completely on board? I’ve heard a lot about disgruntled MKs… you know, those missionary kids who grow up swearing they will never have anything to do […]
FIT to be together
Over the past few months, we’ve talked a lot about how much we want to help the families traveling to Nicaragua to adopt orphans. While we aren’t adopting ourselves (at least not at this point), we have a desire to do whatever we can to ensure the families who come here to adopt are able […]
Our journey into foster care
May is National Foster Care Month. In honor of this, I thought I should let you know a little about why we became foster parents, and what you can do to change a child’s life. On our honeymoon, I remember romantically talking about how many children we’d have. Regardless of which number we settled on, […]