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 […]
Family
Grieving Like Christ
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 […]
Exciting news!
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. […]
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 […]
Pictures of the house
Greg posted recently and mentioned that we have finally tackled a thorough rearranging of the house. We threw away or donated a ton of stuff. (How did we end up […]
A time of rest and a return to normal life
First of all, I want to wish everyone Happy World Down Syndrome Day. Because we have been blessed with three girls with Down Syndrome, this is always a day of […]
An Unconventional Date Day
Saturdays are typically date days for Kristie and me. We usually drop our kids off at her parents’ house around lunchtime, slip away for a quiet afternoon, and then pick […]