{ My sweet husband }   I don’t know if you know this, but since the end of October, I’ve been working as a front desk receptionist.  Do you remember the episode of “The Office” where it’s Valentine’s Day, and all these wonderful flowers and plants and teddy bears keep coming in for everybody but Pam Beasley, [...]

As a lot of you know, Funnel and I are planning on adopting one day, so I read a lot of adoption blogs.  One of my favorites is A Bushel and a Peck.  Lisa is the author, and she and her husband have 11 children – 4 of them are adopted from Ethiopia.  One of [...]

Our whole lives we are given statistics and numbers.  We read them in the newspaper, we hear them in school, we get them forwarded in emails.  Drugs, abortion, endangered animals, divorces, poverty, whatever.  We become numb to it all and the numbers don’t mean anything anymore.   We don’t really understand how much a thousand or a million really is, anyway. 
Our brains [...]

 
((Maria and Stevie Chapman))
I was really saddened this past week after I read about the death of Steven Curtis Chapman’s daughter, Maria, the youngest of the three little girls they adopted from China.  I think I read that she was five years old.  She died in a freak accident in their driveway — her older brother was [...]