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TODAY’S ADOPTION QUESTION! Steve & I are often asked what advice we’d give someone considering adoption from foster care. It can be hard to answer, because I want to tell everyone all the things, yet I’m aware that each experience is really unique and not everything will apply. But yesterday afternoon I realized one thing that is […]
Read MoreEARLY Sunday morning, I saw a post from my friend Stephanie Elliot on Facebook that inspired me to ditch the whole second half of my sermon to make room to share the story of how she handled years of rejection and disappointment in her writing career. Her book comes out today :) I know Steph in real life […]
Read MoreThis is Part 2 of the answer to Donny’s Question: Religion is a big part of your life – how are you raising the kids within a faith-based environment and why is it important to you and Steve? On Friday I shared a about the why. Here’s some of the how (the good, the bad, and […]
Read MoreToday’s question comes from Donny: Religion is a big part of your life – how are you raising the kids within a faith-based environment and why is it important to you and Steve? One thing Steve & I have learned over the past 2 years is that our Christian faith is THE THING that gets […]
Read MoreI recently learned that there is a woman in my home state of Maine who earns a quarter of a million dollars a year blogging about chickens. [Go ahead. Read that again. I had to see it a couple of times myself before it sank in.] Her name is Lisa Steele, and she runs “the largest […]
Read MoreLast week, one of the organizations that helped us adopt the Cherubs asked if I’d write a blog post about our experience. I’ll confess that we were having a rather TEXTURED week here at home (my word for when it feels like things are coming off the rails) and so at first I couldn’t even […]
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Trish Ryan 