July 22, 2021

{Election Day.} What a God given right we have. I voted early during one of the three days our power was out. Jared and I took turns standing in line while the other stayed in the car with our kids. I stood in line for an hour. Five people ahead of me a was a […]

{Esther} Fun fact: This was almost JN’s name! No joke for most of my pregnancy we considered naming JN, Esther. I love the book of Esther so much. There’s such a climax that does not disappoint. Oh, how the Lord used Esther to save a whole people is just astonishing. Think about it. In her

I was going through my pictures tonight and saw this. I haven’t really talked about it much. But, man I saw it and it brought back floods of emotions. This is the absolute perfect picture of foster care. This was 5:30 in the morning. G was scheduled to have tubes because his ear drum had

We are two weeks away from having G for two years. . Two years. Someone asked me today how it was going and where we were in our case. Honestly, I don’t know where we are. Our appeal hasn’t been filed still. I was then asked if it was frustrating. No, I don’t really feel

I don’t deserve Jozi Noel Kelley. 🤍 . Thing about Jo is- I don’t believe she wrote that she loved God on her paper at school because it’s the poticially correct Sunday School answer. But, because she loves God. She also loves a million other things because she is her momma’s child and loves hard,

{my sunshine ☀️} . The other night after I gave G a bath I wrapped him up in a towel like I always do. But, this time he sort of laid back and just went with it and picked him up like a baby. He giggled because I guess he even knew he was too big

Want to know a secret I’ve been holding on to? . A few months ago I wrote a blog post on the urgency of the Lord. I wrote the post at 7:00am the morning we were to get the call he was legally free. An hour later we would get the call saying he wasn’t

{Big boy room} . I don’t know what it is about this milestone in particular, but I have never been so proud. It’s been about two weeks now (I didn’t want to jump the gun until I knew for sure) that G has slept in his big boy bed. He just decided in his mind

Let’s talk trauma. . We have come a long way. A very long way. The little boy we brought home at 8 months old stared at us in fear. He shielded his broke arm from us and wouldn’t let us feed him a bottle for hours on end. His big beautiful dark eyes were hollow.

Break my heart Lord for what breaks yours.   I was shielded to the magnitude of G’s abuse at first. I saw what had happened, but I was excited our family was growing and the answer to a prayer we had prayed for months was here! I was also needed to help G heal, to