\”Viste mi aquário?\” (\”Did you see my aquarium?\”) She grinned as she leaned over the side of the platform and stared at the tiny fish swimming in the sludge that filtered its way under and around their house. Enamored. She is a glass-half-full kinda gal. My sandal snapped and the sludge oozed between my toesContinue reading “Seeing the Aquarium in the Sludge”
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These Demons are Pretty
“Go watch Elliott,” Richard said to me very seriously. I stepped into the kitchen in our tiny wooden jungle home and looked out onto the back patio where Elliott liked to play in the big water basin. He was three and a half and full of imagination and wonder at all the things the worldContinue reading “These Demons are Pretty”
His Kingdom, Right Here {Part 3}
I glanced up at his face while she told me about the boy that had hung himself just two days prior. He had the same look I’d seen before—one of resilience but also desperation. It’s a fierce kind of look that he seems to carry with him everywhere. And how could you not bare thatContinue reading “His Kingdom, Right Here {Part 3}”
Six Things Not to Say to an Adoptive Parent
I recently posted a blog that I have been working on for some time. It took me a while to write it because I wanted to be sure it accurately conveyed my heart but was honest about something that it seems is lacking in the adoption community. I wrote it knowing that I was openingContinue reading “Six Things Not to Say to an Adoptive Parent”
Thankful Thursday: Unexpected Community
(This Thankful Thursday post is a little early, but I gotta post when I have internet!) I’ve cried a lot over the last few days. And I’m not a crier, y’all. It all started on Monday when I felt led to finally post something about our adoption and the struggle it has been. I readContinue reading “Thankful Thursday: Unexpected Community”
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