Static

Static

With each out-of-state move, every step of obedience–the discerning, the deciding, the doubling down–has gotten easier, save one. The uprooting has gotten harder, especially now that a double oven, mountain views and neighbors I’ve come to care about...
Doing it Scared

Doing it Scared

I find it no coincidence that almost three years ago today, I wrote a post for our adoption blog that began with precisely the same six words I wanted to open today’s post with… “The truth is…this ain’t easy.” This week three years ago, we found ourselves a few days...
We Could’ve Missed This

We Could’ve Missed This

Every year when April 9-18 rolls around, our family pauses to remember the week Ryan and I spent in Ethiopia in 2009. We celebrate Selah’s birthday, we remember her Gotcha Day, we touch base with our travel group, and we once again subject our Facebook followers...
Love That…Necklace for a Need

Love That…Necklace for a Need

This past Christmas my mom finally put an end to my incessant begging for the “Heart for Africa” necklace. It had been on my wish list since April 2009 when we traveled to Ethiopia to bring home our daughter, and I just never found a way to justify buying...

Gelgela’s Grace

We always thought we’d keep Selah’s Ethiopian name as her middle name, but we changed our minds once we realized that Selah Beyenech Lunceford is a mouthful–and one that stands no chance of being pronounced correctly from the graduation stages she will one day...