by Kristen Lunceford | Apr 15, 2017 | Adoption, Faith
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...
by Kristen Lunceford | Mar 19, 2012 | Adoption, Church Planting, Faith
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...
by Kristen Lunceford | Apr 17, 2011 | Adoption, Faith
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...
by Kristen Lunceford | Apr 11, 2011 | Adoption, Parenting, Popular Posts
April 11 I will never be able to tell her the story of the day she was born… And every April 11, she will wish that I could. I will help her balance grief… …with gratitude… And she will be brave. Happy 3rd Birthday, Beautiful. From the Mommy...
by Kristen Lunceford | Mar 1, 2011 | Adoption
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...
by Kristen Lunceford | Apr 24, 2009 | Adoption
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...
