My Blog Post from Four Years Ago: Meeting Nia!

April 29, 2021.Reading time 14 minutes.

Good Evening Gorgeous, Today marks 4 years since I wrote this blog post. Four years have passed since I excitedly said yes to an 18 day old baby girl being discharged from the NICU. Four years since I met my daughter on a Friday night. That morning I got up and went to work completely […]

I fell in love with her.

March 8, 2021.Reading time 6 minutes.

Good Morning Gorgeous, It’s a brand new day. A fresh new start. A new day to rise and love those you encounter with all you’ve got. Love when it’s hard. Love when it’s scary. Love when you have something to lose. Love when your pride is on the line. Love. Love. Love. Today is the […]

A letter to my daughter on the anniversary of her adoption.

November 18, 2020.Reading time 7 minutes.

Today, marks 3 years since the judge signed and sealed my youngest daughter legally and permanently into my care as her mother. I looked through the pictures from that day and all the feelings came rushing back. I saw the Hands of God move in that season. The adoption process is the most challenging journey […]

Reveling in God’s goodness!

September 7, 2020.Reading time 7 minutes.

About a month ago, our family dressed up on a Friday afternoon and headed to a nature park to meet up with our favorite photographer. (Well our only photographer.) We met her three years ago to have family pics taken when Nia was a newborn, and that beach photo session became my testimony because hours […]

Do you have a God story to tell?

April 28, 2020.Reading time 13 minutes.

Good Morning Gorgeous, It’s a brand new day. A fresh start. A new day to rise up, and walk victoriously through anything warring against your peace. We were never meant to live in turmoil. We are a people designed to walk victoriously. Jesus said that we would have troubles, but to take heart because He […]

Adoption still Rocks: 3 years later

March 9, 2020.Reading time 7 minutes.

Today marked 3 years since I stood before the judge, surrounded by a room full of family and friends, and pledged to be forever momma to my twin boys. The emotions of that moment are still fresh and raw and so real that I could almost physically touch them. Sitting there, promising to care for […]

“You are Just a Little bit her Mommy!”

January 30, 2020.Reading time 9 minutes.

I continue to see my sweet little girls that I cared for recently as their foster mommy. They still scream, “Mommy!” everytime they see me. Yesterday, when I picked up my daughter Nia, I saw both of them on the playground. I rounded the corner and there at the fence was little P. She is […]