Finally last February 2007, (16 months since we’d started our homestudy) we got frustrated that the adoption was taking so long.  After much thinking and talking we decided to switch countries to Ethiopia.  They had just opened up adoptions there in the last year or two and the process was comparatively short. Skin Color, Schmin […]

Homemade Beer Bread Beer Bread Mix together:  (Just use a big bowl and a spoon.  No mixer needed!) 1/2 cup sugar (I used sucanat here, a more natural sugar)(You can also use maple syrup) 12 oz beer (if you use dry sweetener like sugar, sucanat, etc add another 1/4 cup liquid – beer or water) […]

Meeting Luke in the orphanage.  Stavropol, Russia. Another Baby So,  about a year after Henry (our 3rd) was born, we knew we wanted another child.  At the same time, the idea of letting God plan our children (i.e. when and if we would have more) was taking hold in me. I mean if I’m going […]

Luke at St. Basil’s Cathedral.  Moscow, Russia. This is the story of our adoption journey to Russia for our fourth child, Luke. To be fruitful and multiply Let me say first that deep down Matthew and I wanted another child.  We did not adopt just because it was the right thing to do or out […]