Years ago we were close with Garen's sister. So close I even homeschooled her daughter for a few months. Until that fateful weekend we...

Last week Zade came over for dinner. During that initial flurried rush of jumping dogs and interrupted hellos I noticed Garen and Z...

Chapter 17 We celebrated our newfound freedom by taking a walk off the hotel property, alone. No chaperone, no lawyer, no driver, no...

Chapter 16 Court was the most frightening thing I have ever done. It was this terrible task I had to complete, and I desperately didn’t...

I have begun to pray the Rosary daily. It has become such a beautiful habit and it brings me so much peace. Some days my mind wanders...

Chapter 15 Timos had turned four just two months before we arrived in Uganda. And with every passing moment it became very clear to Garen...

It took Garen and I a hot minute to fully realize that what we were facing was a prolonged and well planned assault from Hell. The battle...

I'll never forget the Lent I decided to give up worry. Covid had just started and...yeah. Joke was on me. Global Pandemic and all. It was...

Chapter 14 Two months exactly from getting the referral, Garen and I were on a plane to Uganda. Hugging our older boys goodbye, without...

WARNING: This post will seem to be written-word vomit. In reality it is a small sampling of the minefield that has been my life these...

Chapter 13 “We HAVE to say no. My son is NOT five. I KNOW this Garen!” It was a Thursday. November 5th of 2015 to be exact and we had...

One day I was at the grocery store. I was doing that listless shuffle through the aisles that is characteristic of the heartsick mama....

It was about this time that I began to notice that something was a little “off” with our oldest, Keegan. Nothing I could put into words....

It would be two months before we received a referral for the little boy who had been born to be my son. But those months felt like a...

The summer of 2015 is when the temperature was turned up. The pressure began to build. That precious pressure that would eventually begin...

For fifteen years we had been wandering in a desert of our own making, Garen and I. I kept trying to do the right thing. I kept searching...

January 3rd of 2015 I was sitting cross legged, spread out on the floor, working on Keegan’s high school graduation party. He was a...

Chapter 6 Being only 19 when we married, we basically had to raise each other. Neither of us was ready to be married, but our...

After a lot of prayer. A lot of tears. A lot of agonizing. I have decided to be strong in the truth that I know. I'm back and I'm not...