My Son WON the Trip to Disney World!!

I’m sorry if I just blew out your ear drums screaming, but we’re so exited over here!!! He didn’t have the most votes, but I guess he had the gassiest video (proud mommy moment)… because the Judges voted & decided that our Son’s Tummy Truths video was the WINNER of an all expense paid vacation [...]

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Room For More – How to Fit 6 Kids in One Room.

About 4 months ago, I started Googling “How to fit 6 kids into one room” and came up with all kinds of crazy suggestions that included: Knocking down walls for elaborate built-in beds; Hand building multi-story bunk beds; Hanging tiered beds from ropes on the ceiling; and I even found one site that suggested garage storage racks! [...]

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Please Vote for My Son Sam!

Sam, our 7 year old son made a video for Culturelle’s Probiotic Tummy Truths Contest on Facebook in hopes to win a trip to Walt Disney World for our entire family!  Low and behold, he made the finalists and now needs your votes to help him win! Yes, his video is about gas & explosions… [...]

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Welcome to the Family – Adoption Day!

Baby came earlier than expected… and nothing went as planned (which worked out perfectly!)  It was love at first sight!  Here’s some of our video footage sharing as much as we can from our 3rd adoption journey.  Now we begin the legal process which is a labor all in itself – I will share more [...]

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Birthmother – Amazing Meeting #2

This is a video sharing about our second ‘in-person’ meeting with the birthmother.  Just when I think I’ve experienced everything about adoption… my socks are blown off and God reminds me that He’s in control of all things – from beginning to end! Next update coming soon, so stay tuned!

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My First Quick Meeting with the Birthmother

Well, all that anticipation boiled down to just a couple short minutes of my first (in-person) meeting with the Birthmother. It didn’t go exactly as I had thought, but it went exactly as it was supposed to. Our next meeting may not be until October… but I’ll keep you posted! :) Don’t forget to subscribe [...]

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Getting Ready to Meet the Birthmother for the First Time!

We’ve recently been presented with the possibility of adopting again. Each time it has been a different experience entirely!  This time around, the Birthmother and I have already been in contact with each other…  On this video, I share my thoughts as I prepare to meet her for the first time in person. Don’t forget [...]

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I’m changing things up a bit! Food & Adoption!

Hi guys!  This is a video to tell you about some of the ways I’ll be switching up my videos & blog posts… Almost everything I’ve done up til now has been food related.  But I’ve been getting so many questions about Our Family & Adoption, that I wanted to warn my regular ‘Food’ subscribers [...]

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New Baby = Hairy Legs & Pits
New Baby = Hairy Legs & Pits September 3, 2009 [2]

New babies come at a high cost.  No, I’m not just talking about money or those sleepless nights - but there’s something else that these precious little ones cost us mothers… and that’s the toll on our personal hygiene. I caught a glimpse of myself in the full length mirror on the way out the door yesterday and [...]

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Another precious son through the gift of adoption!

Three nights ago, we received a call from our adoption agency… They had a baby for us!  Even more exciting is that ‘he’ (yes it’s a boy!) was already born and waiting for us to pick up!  (That’s the short story – I’ll tell you the long one another day).  However, he was in the NICU [...]

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