I know right around this time of year a lot of parents reading this have recently experienced back to school shopping with your children. New items from clothing, to new shoes, to school supplies are purchased in order to get your child ready for school. I remember doing this as a child and loving getting […]
Over the next few weeks, we are going to blog about getting our kids ready for school. If you are a parent, you know how difficult it can be to make sure your children are ready, and if you are not a parent then you can remember getting ready for the first day of school […]
Starting on Monday, we will begin a new blog series about getting our kids ready for school. There are so many things that happen as we begin to get ready for our kids’ first day, and we want you to be a part of the ups and downs of figuring out how to get 29 […]
As many of you know, we have been in the process of adoption for almost 3 years now. We began this process prior to accepting GOD’s call to start and run All Things New and to move to Haiti to take care of our children. It has been a long road (to read our adoption story, […]
Have you ever had one of those moments in life where you look around you and cannot even believe life is so perfect? I found myself in one of those moments the other night here in Haiti. I am sure most people reading this know our story and know the situation our kids came from […]
When we came back from spending a month in the states, one of the best new things we drove up to was a new basketball court! We had a generous donation made to cover the cost of the slab, the goals, and a couple of new basketballs, and we drove up to see the new […]
While we were in America for the month of July we had an incredible team of people here who looked after our children and kept them safe. Matt and Cara (along with their children Kaylea, Dean, and Joel) helped us out immensely as they contacted us whenever there was an issue, had our kids participate […]
We arrived back in Haiti yesterday, and we were so excited to pull into Hope Rising and see our kids after a month of being away. I will tell you, we were not disappointed by our kids’ reaction. They were just as thrilled as we were to see our truck pull in and we could […]
We have been home since July 3, and it has been a wonderful month off so far. I (Matt) don’t even think I realized how tired I was until I laid down in our bed for the first time. So far, we have spent a week with my parents, a week at the beach just […]
Over the past few months, Jess and I have been reading through the Bible together with a chronological reading plan. It has been really good, and we have just gotten to 2 Samuel and the story of David. At this point we have read about people who have had some pretty crazy things happen to them like […]
It has been a while since we have posted a “day in the life” blog, but we like to do it from time to time to give everyone a little taste of what life can be like here. Of course we tend to choose the slightly more eventful days, but it is not a huge […]
It has been a little while since our last blog post, and we have been extremely busy here. We have moved our kids into a new home here at Hope Rising (which we will write about in a blog soon), and we had a team here last week that was making sure everything would be […]
