When You Need a Little Fa-la-la

I’m decorating for Christmas in a slightly more minimalist way these days – choosing decorations that can pass off for winter décor in January, and allowing me to be a bit slower in both the set up for Christmas and the take down in the New Year. It also means I have a lot […]

Seven Things You Should Know… Talking About Adoption

Recently, when I was mindlessly scrolling through my social media feed, I got stuck on a (fairly innocent) post of a funny family anecdote. The kind where a parent retells a sibling conversation. This one involved one kid telling the other that they don’t belong in their family because they were adopted. (They’re not.) […]

On Finding Beauty in 2016

Overall, 2015 hasn’t been that bad of a year in our house. In some ways, I felt like I got my groove back. Good things happened at work. Dad survived a surgery that he (apparently) wasn’t supposed to. We became a real family when we bought a van. My beloved started a new job. […]

Twice Adopted

“My friend Melinda’s story gives me hope and makes my eyes water happy tears. Rarely do I hear about children adopted internationally meeting their birth parents, but Melinda did meet her birth mom, Dory, and has been so beautifully honouring of her. Even more remarkably, when disaster hit in the Phillippines recently, Melinda and […]