Today is National Adoption Day! A day to raise awareness for the 100,000 children in foster care waiting for Forever Families! The adoption agency in Oklahoma City recently began a partnership with the Department of Human Services. Their goal is to find families for the children who are eligible for adoption (approximately 350 children in Oklahoma). That means parental rights have been terminated and these children just need a family to say YES! Many of these children are older or part of Continue Reading
New Book, New Blog Look
Isn't it lovely? Thanks to Mindy at Simply Designs, I have an amazing new blog to go with my new book! I hope having the new blog will motivate me to write a little more regularly. I'm really going to work hard to write more. After writing a book, I don't feel like I have much left to say. :) A few things you should know about the new blog: 1. You can now subscribe to my blog. Enter your email address under the subscribe button on the sidebar and new posts will be delivered straight to Continue Reading
On Gratefulness & Gratitude {A Guest Post}
I've always tried to spend November focused on the many things I have to be thankful for. November happens to be National Adoption Awareness Month. Adoption has played a huge role in my life. I am thankful that God chose adoption to fulfill the deepest desire of my heart - to be a mother. Every single day, even when he's testing my patience, I am thankful that God chose me to be Jackson's mommy. But there are two sides to adoption. I am not only thankful for the boy who loves all things Continue Reading
When God Says Stay….
Last week I spent a long time on the phone encouraging a friend and soon-to-be adoptive mama. I've been in her shoes. I know how it feels to get devastating news from the country God has called you to adopt from. Messy red tape that keeps children from Forever Families. I've watched friends and other families jump ship when it gets hard and choose to adopt from another place. I felt the sting of jealousy knowing my friends would probably bring their children home before me. I've felt Continue Reading
And It All Led To This….
All the prayers. All the tears. The publisher meetings. The no's. The doubts. The weekends spent hashing out words I prayed would make a difference. Yesterday I clicked on Amazon to see if my book had released. I expected to see the same message I had previously seen when I typed my book title in the search engine - no items found. But yesterday this appeared! I was staring at my book. It was there on Amazon and over on the Barnes and Noble website. I fired off a few texts to family Continue Reading