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Remembering Mandy Kelly from Worshipful Living

Tuesday, March 21, started like any other day around our house. I got the kids off to school and came home to do some work.  Around 9:30 a member of our Facebook Mastermind Group (a group of about 10 Christian women bloggers that support one another through blogging and life) posted that she'd seen some chatter on Mandy's Facebook profile and wanted to see how we could pray for her.  It wasn't 20 minutes later that we all realized what was going on... Mandy, her husband Scott, and their … {Read More}

Part 2 – It’s A Girl

"The name?", we thought! We were caught off guard as we were still in shock that all of this was happening before our very eyes. "If it's a boy we'd like his name to be Josiah. We haven't thought yet about a girl's name!" The rest of the conversation was mostly a blur. All I remember is the lawyer saying we needed to get to Jacksonville the next day. We automatically started thinking of ways we … {Read More}

Part 8 – Bittersweet

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Friday came and went with no word about fingerprints. We pulled out all the stops; getting in contact with NC Congresswoman Sue Myrick's Chief of Staff (a member of our church) and another member of the church that is in the FBI. They all did what they could do, but the Lord had us in FL for the weekend and possibly a week or two … {Read More}

Part 1 – Phone Calls!

You may remember this post almost 2 weeks ago. That was Friday, January 28! If you remember, the attorney told us to pray and that she would be in contact on Monday morning. I thought and "prayed" all weekend and came to the conclusion, "We won't able to move forward, it's too much, too soon...it's too expensive!" My plan was to call the attorney on Monday morning and let her know we weren't going … {Read More}

What’s In A Name?

For us, coming up with the "perfect" name never did seem of highest importance. Before adoption seemed "real" we would throw around a name or two, mainly boy names, and Q would always go back to his favorite girl name, Talitha. I always disagreed as I was afraid she would always be called Tabitha! When the birthparents asked us what we wanted his/her name to be (before any of us knew the sex) we … {Read More}

Teen Talk Tuesday – Love

With all the craziness the past month I completely dropped the ball on my committment to Teen Talk Tuesday. Thankfully, Jill has a forgiving spirit and gave me a pass and even a little TTT shout out last week when I should have been posting!So, I'm back on board. Head over to Jill's blog this morning and experience Christ's love for you! … {Read More}