Meet the Godwin Children

As I’ve been following the stories of other large families, I have sometimes had a really hard time keeping all of their children straight and remembering which name goes with […]

I actually wrote this post the day before Christmas Eve, but we have been running so hard in all areas of life since then—many doctors’ appointments for Evie, a couple […]

Returning to Normal

For the first few weeks after Evie came home, we felt like we would never get our feet back under us again. We had expected that feeling, because we have […]

A hard month

December of 2017 was one of the hardest months I can remember. We know that it is always hard to bring a new child into our family, and we were […]

She’s Home!!

The last time I updated, I said that we probably wouldn’t learn our travel dates until the last minute. That is exactly what happened. We found out for sure that […]

The plans we made last week have worked out well, and today’s the day we get to meet Shea! Our trip down here to Georgia on Sunday and Monday went […]

We have been waiting to update our blog until we had definite travel dates, but I don’t know if we are going to get those until the very last second. […]

Still Waiting...

In an earlier blog post, I mentioned that we were waiting as patiently as we can to bring Shea home and trying to use the time to take care of […]

Halloween

When I was a kid, Halloween was one of my favorite days of the year. My mom always worked hard to make sure that we had fun costumes with elaborate […]

Waiting...

We have entered the waiting portion of this adoption process. The first step of the adoption is a whirlwind of paperwork and social worker visits. The last step is another […]