Pictures from January. Hurya was with us until late January and that meant that I was remarkably tired and busy, trying to keep up with my little family and help her also. We made some progress in our fledgling adoption process, working on homestudy paperwork and by the end of the month we knew we were adopting Daniel! School started up again and Jordan participated in occupational therapy. It was a good month…. but I’m glad it’s behind me. I was overtaxed before January started and didn’t find recovery until more recently.
We got fingerprinted with a little cat in attendance!
Anna doing homeschool. We used Christian Light Publications books for Reading, Bible, and Science this year and I like them.
This is how we roll when we go out for dinner!
Fun family date night at Wendy’s, complete with tall stools and chocolate frosties.
Morning run
Jordan’s play room got a makeover! New paint on the walls, vinyl flooring. I don’t know who put the mattress on his swing, though. 😀
Our dogs might like people a little bit.
Afternoon walk with my man.
Carolyn loves to talk and talk and talk.
It’s pretty fun that she could read to me.
The kids organized a magic show for us!
Coooooold morning run.
Well, that’s one thing you can do with the swing and climbing rope!
We’re just a typical, atypical family in the Pacific Northwest. We homeschool, love Jesus and are learning as we go.
We have three beautiful daughters, born in 2007, 2009 and 2012 and two handsome sons, born in 2009 and 2013. (My sons are Bulgarian – arriving home in 2011 and 2017. If you’re curious about Bulgarian adoptions, I blogged about our experience.).
After learning about the need for adoptive families of children with disabilities, (and here and here) we began the process to adopt our son Jordan (who has Down Syndrome). He arrived home on December 3rd, 2011!. We were in process for Daniel (who has arthrogryposis) January-October 2017. You can see photos from our trips to Bulgaria by looking at June and Nov/Dec 2011 archives and May and October 2017.
I love the new flooring. It looks like wood but it is vinyl! So cool!!!