Life at Home

and happiness

Wishing You

JOY, PEACE, HEALTH, HOPE, LOVE

Random Bits

Random Bits

So, today we were in the local coffeshop visiting with some friends that Happy just adores so there was a lot of love going on.  When it was time to leave, […]

Random Bits

Random Bits

  Yesterday while BF was doing Happy’s hair, Happy said, “I love my hair.  Daddy, do you love my hair?  Mommy, do you love my hair?”  Why, yes, we do […]

Random Bits

Random Bits

Oh, the bits… So, for the longest time, it has been on between Happy and the above metal goat.  We have a menagerie of metal animals in our side yard […]

We hung our made in Kenya Advent Calendar (thanks, Aunt Kristi!).

a visual journal continued…

      December and January are full of days to celebrate for our family. In addition to Christmas and New Year’s, we also celebrate the day we legally adopted […]

Winter blew in with snow, sleet that melted the snow, and lost mittens.

A Visual Journal

It was an action-packed weekend and I am out of words so I thought that I’d do a visual journal of the weekend.  I imagine that there were Welcome Winter […]

Uh-oh and Happy at work

Random Bits

 Bit # 1  So, one of Happy’s best buds is his cousin Uh-oh.  Uh-oh and Happy doing their cousin thing.  We call her Uh-oh because she’s not afraid to bring […]

18 ways to love the new family or family member in your life

This post was originally up in March 2009. *  Wondering what’s up with the sign?  See # 5. So there’s a new family- or family member- in your life, and you […]

Dear Friends and Family

This originally posted on March 4, 2009. Because the adaptation process with adoption is different than what most families expect when you are bringing a new baby home, our adoption counselor […]

We are Family

this was originally posted on February 25, 2009. Attachment and adapation are big words in the adoption world.  You want your new family member to smoothly adapt to the transition […]