Little Dreamer

 

I have had dreams, and I've had nightmares.

I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.

- Jonas Salk

Our Baby Ten Years Home

It's been ten years since we took a child with a broken heart from the only place she'd ever known.  She was a frail and fearful shell of a little human, having existed only in the margins of life and having hung on by a thread.  What happened to her in those first two years - three if you count the trauma she experienced from conception - will impact her forevermore.  We cannot love it away.  We cannot treat it away.  We cannot chalk it off to the past and move on.  But we can give her the tools to carry it well and we can carry it with her.  We can cherish her at her best and at her worst.  Together, we're working toward a future that has so much promise.

November 14, 2011

There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the heart of man that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes. - Leo Tolstoy

Fall Getaway 2021

I can't believe this was our 6th annual fall getaway with (adoption) friends.  As always, we had hot-tubbing, campfires, golf, board games, lots of food, and for the first time ever a moms' day out.

Fallingwater

Gyumri girls turning into young ladies

We may have outgrown our trusty cabin,
so this could be the last ever photo of us there.