In the Shade of the Linden Tree

Twins Update: Things are Hopping

We are now four (4) weeks away until the twins’ c-section due date in Reno, Nevada (October 15) and things are hopping. We have now video chatted with our girls’ birth parents, found our double strollers, decided on the girls’…

We’re Having Twins: Ahhhhhh!

Over the past 38 hours Ben and I have yelled to each other, “Twins! Ahhhh!” multiple times. We are so surprised to find ourselves matched with twins and we are still a bit in shock! This is a very rare…

The Matching Process: Throw Your Hands Up!

I’ve mentioned before that the Adoption Matching Process is like riding a roller coaster. This second time around that is certainly proving to be true. We have been presented with three birth mother situations so far. The first was in…

Adoption Update: Trucking Along

Ben and I have been asked by several friends lately how things are going with our next adoption, and I realized that it has been a while since I sent out an update. We are currently trucking along at a…

Update: Interview Scheduled

Our application has been approved and we are now moving ahead in the adoption process (can I get a “wahoo!”?). The next steps are filling out lots more paperwork (I had “syllabus shock” after opening that email) and going through…

Adoption #2 – Another Chance to Trust

Happy New Year! It’s 2019. A time of new beginnings and possibilities. As I stand at the beginning of this year, I find myself looking up at another giant mountain. This mountain is called Adoption #2. Ben and I have…

Adoption Finalization: From Barrenness to Fullness

Phew! For “some” reason I’m finding it hard to find time to think through my inner thoughts these days let alone write about them. ;) But here I am attempting to summarize into words the past eight months. On May…

Jonathan’s Birth Story

Wow. The past ten weeks have been a life-changing whirlwind of crazy and awesome and God showing up. So much grace. About ten weeks ago, on October 26, I was expecting our case worker to call me to set up…

Thoughts about My Five Week “Pregnancy”

Phew! This has been a wild two weeks. It’s hard to believe that it was only two weeks ago that we received the call that turned our world upside down. The first week after hearing we were matched there were…

Big News: We Are Matched

Thursday evening I got the shock of my life when our adoption caseworker called to give us the amazing news that we were chosen by one of the families we were matching with. We had attempted to match about five…