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Family, Friends, Neighbors, Community — From the most sincere place in our hearts, thank you. We are coming to realize that the last weeks since the fire, we’ve been living in a fog. There have been lots of emotions, exhaustion, a constant state of feeling overwhelmed, and probably a good bit of shock. Nevertheless, so…
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In many ways, it feels as though the fire were yesterday, a bad dream we may wake up from eventually. In some ways it seems like another lifetime. While I hope to not accidentally infer that we’ll have a festering wound forever (although I kind of want to keep my scars on my hands from…
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We moved into our “Tower House” we’re calling it, on Monday 12/30, two weeks exactly after the fire. It’s this tall 3 story house, with a bunch of stairs from the sidewalk too, so we dubbed it “Tower House”, the top floor almost feels treehouse-esqe, tucked up a second set of stairs high above. It’s…
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Friends — I have long believed that God is always good. Through the good, the joyous, the excellent, the struggles and of course, the heartbreak. This last week has proven this through and through. The Lord really is as good as He always has shown and said He is. There will be harder days to…
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Friends, thank you for the prayers, the generosity, the concern. It means more than we can describe. Sincerely, our community is more gracious and lovely than most people are used to, it’s a testimony to the Lord’s faithfulness, to say we are humbled by this all is an understatement. So over the last three days…
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Friends – Our minds have spun, we’ve barely slept, but because word is spreading, it’s time to provide a brief update. Monday evening, incredibly quickly, a fire began in our basement, quickly filled our home with toxic fumes, and flames spread from basement up through the master bedroom into the attic. I’ll spare the hard…
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It’s been a challenging year for our household, which of course comes after a particularly tough season of life. I’m not going to try and compare or justify “hard years”, I have known a lot of folks this year with more obvious hard seasons than ours, and those with very private seasons of despair, some…
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Our 6th Anniversary — it’s so curious, because it doesn’t seem like it’s been only 6 years. So much life has happened in those 6 years. Like what feels like a million house projects in the fixer-upper, that thankfully has grown to truly be a home. 3.5 years of Foster to Adoption stress, that makes…
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Nothing has changed. Everything has changed. The kids still have the same favorite stuffed animals. We have the same Toyota Minivan. My garage still needs to be cleaned out, and there are too many oranges in the kitchen. Oh, and Jack is still begging for a treehouse/fort — and building his own out of branches…
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Tomorrow is a big day. We’ve waited for over 1100 days (little more than 3 years) to officially adopt our children. After so many days, weeks, months, years of trying not to “get our hopes up”, it is almost difficult to take a deep breath and know the thing you’d longed for, has finally come.…
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