One of my favorite sayings is a line stolen from Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure (which hearkens back to my high school days): “Something’s afoot at the Circle K.” And ever since we announced our desire and intention to adopt not one, but two, children from Ethiopia, I’ve felt “something’s afoot.”

I have no doubt that we made the right choice, because this choice was confirmed through fasting and prayer. Even the manner in which the idea sort of fell into my husband’s lap at the same time I’d been considering it points to my Heavenly Father’s... more

For us personally, the news of Ethiopia's proposed family size restrictions comes at a crucial time. As regular readers of this blog may know, we’ve been wondering/thinking/pondering/praying about whether to adopt a boy or a girl for some time now, but neither decision seemed to be the right one. We kept putting it on the backburner, but when we mailed our dossier to our agency a couple of weeks ago, we knew we’d have to make this important decision sooner than later.

On our way to our fingerprint appointment last week, I finally confessed to my husband that I’d been feeling our “child” should... more

When we took that first step, neither of us could know how just how many potholes, hills, exits, traffic jams and accidents there would prove to be on that road, or how many beautiful and amazing sights we’d see along the way!

Our dossier went to China in late August 2001 after five months of loving preparation. The very next month, we received devastating news. My husband was losing his job. The ENT physician he was working with had quit, and the hospital didn’t think my husband’s job as an audiologist was safe without an ENT on staff. Because it’s a small hospital, they had no idea how long it would take to recruit another.

We had just hawked everything that wasn’t... more