elizabethjoywoods

Since we choose to host two sisters, my brain has been abuzz on how to make them feel at home. We chose to keep them [...]

So I've been wondering and waiting. Waiting for something to come to my life that feels like IT. Something to do, get involved in, become [...]

For years -forever, I've celebrated Easter. Peanut butter eggs, pastels, and a spring version of tinsel, peppers my childhood memories. Similar to Christmas, my family [...]

Recently three of my kids spoke about how their lives had been changed by a recent mission trip. (I use this term lightly - as [...]

Several people have asked for an update on our adoption process. I explain to them that our dossier is crossing the ocean as we speak. [...]

We listened to her story, abducted by two men while in a hotel, taken somewhere, waking up in a dark basement. For five days she [...]

This time of year there's one overwhelming emotion that dictates every move we make. Pressure. It's not joy or excitement, it's not thankfulness or even [...]

I spotted some people we knew. Not really knew, but had enjoyed a few superficial conversations with. Subjects came up easily - and laughter flowed [...]

It's kind of funny how life happens. You have no idea why things are out of your control and then suddenly you wake up in [...]

When I was a kid we put goo on trees. It was this thick orange sticky goo that went around the trunk of each tree [...]