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Two Problems

Posted by Mary Beth on Monday, January 18th, 2010

So we’re finally settling in from our recent move over here at the Picker House.  We are feeling very happy and very blessed.   We love our new house; we have lots of room, lots of yard space, and even more toys.  In fact, there’s another thing we have lots of around here:  BOYS. BOY [...]

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REFERRAL!!!

Posted by Mary Beth on Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

We are overwhelmed, blessed, and absolutely overjoyed to announce that we have received our referral! Monday evening, I got a call from Holt telling us that they had a baby boy waiting for us. He is 2 1/2 months old and itty bitty, but absolutely precious! My arms are already aching for him! I got [...]

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Big News . . .

Posted by Mary Beth on Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

We’ve been waiting for weeks to share our big news, and the time has finally come. After tons of prayer and thought, and sharing and praying with the people closest to us, we have decided to adopt a baby boy from Ethiopia. Ever since I went with my parents to adopt my little sister from [...]

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Posts Tagged ‘christmas’

Needing More Than Coffee?

Monday, December 15th, 2008

So, I now know that I am a grown-up because … brace yourselves … I have begun drinking coffee! Not just drinking coffee, but craving coffee, thinking about drinking coffee. I am 27 years old and have never liked coffee before. I think most people are driven to coffee in college, but not me; Coca-Cola [...]

Christmas Thievery

Thursday, December 14th, 2006

Imagine that you are an average man or woman living on a fairly busy street. As it is Christmas you have decided to celebrate the season by displaying on your lawn the plastic light up Nativity scene that you have exhibited every year for the last decade. Now perhaps you are somewhat attached to this [...]

Celebrating Advent

Sunday, December 3rd, 2006

Our family has decided to celebrate the season of Advent this year. I had heard of Advent before, but we didn’t officially celebrate it when I was a child. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Advent, I found a brief description on Wikipedia: “Advent (from the Latin Adventus, sc. Redemptoris, “the coming of [...]

Santa Comes Early

Monday, November 13th, 2006

On Saturday night, we were over at our friends’ house and Caleb was playing in their son’s exersaucer. He kept bouncing and laughing like crazy! After seeing how excited he was about bouncing, we started to think about getting him a bouncer for Christmas. We shopped around some of the different stores, looking for the [...]

A Merry Christmas had by all

Wednesday, December 28th, 2005

Christmas was wonderful this year! My wife and I went up to visit my maternal grandparents on the 22nd. We had a great time! On Christmas eve, we always gather for a large meal and open our presents that night. So, we went over to my Aunt & Uncle’s house just down the road and [...]