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Yesterday I was going through old Amazon orders and came across a whole section I recognized as my “The Cherubs are coming!” shopping frenzy – items we bought hoping they would make the kids feel loved and welcomed, help us get to know each other, and meet practical needs (like how we had one twin […]
Read MoreBefore we adopted, I couldn’t have told you what I’d like about having children. I had hopes, of course. But they were more a sense of what life might feel like rather than specific dreams I could articulate. Once we were IN it, it wasn’t at all as I’d imagined. Some things were harder than […]
Read MoreToday’s adoption question is from Sarah: How do you handle questions your kids have about WHY? *** We had a really good plan for this. It fell apart immediately upon impact with reality, but I’ll tell you about it anyway. OUR PLAN was to focus on the positives. Not in a Pollyanna-ish way, but to […]
Read MoreTODAY’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 […]
Read MoreI’m back to vent about school :) Let me preface by saying that I ADORE our local schools. The Cherubs’ teachers are wonderful, patient, and devoted to their jobs. The past eighteen months have confirmed that I remember almost none of the specifics of my k-12 education (save for the time we were assigned “festooned” […]
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Trish Ryan 