Washed & Filled Blog
Eye on the Prize
I spend much of my free time on adoption stuff. There are the hours spent collecting all the documents to send to US immigration, requesting our birth certificates for the umpteenth time because they have to be authorized copies from within the past 4 months, and...
Let Me Tell You What He’s Done for Me
So often when adoption comes up, people will comment that they would like to adopt, but it's too expensive. I have always told people not to let that stand in their way; God provides. And yet, as we are back in the process of fundraising, I find myself experiencing...
Back to China
Many of you reading this probably know our story. 2017 was filled with craziness. We brought our daughter home from China, switched schools, changed churches-- and we did all of it in a matter of weeks. I excitedly declared 2018 to be the year of little excitement or...
Stop Making Plans
I need to stop making plans for my life. I'm not sure why I haven't learned this lesson already. It seems that every time the Lord changes my plans I just make new ones from that point. Then, He surprises me again, disrupting my plans, and then I make all new plans....
When Life Isn’t What You Dreamed It Would Be
We got married when we were quite young. I had graduated from college a month before the big day, and David was only 21. We had both watched our parents have successful marriages and felt like we could achieve the same. I scoffed at a lot of premarital counseling...
My Daughter’s Incredible Mother
Last Sunday, I awoke around 2:30am. I laid in bed thinking about my dear friend who had let me know at 8pm the evening prior that she thought labor might be starting. She was 40 weeks, 2 days pregnant and contractions, despite being irregular, were coming every 10-15...