Today we are continuing our blog series about the future that our kids’ desire for their own lives. We asked some general and some specific questions to each of our kids, and we focused a lot of our attention on what they hope to do when they graduate and are out on their own. If […]
As many of you know, we started a blog series about our kids’ futures. We sat down with every kid that is a part of All Things New and asked them a series of questions about their hopes and dreams. With our younger kids, the conversations were a little less serious, but with many of […]
Being back in the states with 3 kids during the month of December this year is something I can barely wrap my mind around. In 2014, Jess and I took a Christmas trip to New York to see the city during Christmas and watch a couple of shows. At that point in time, we had […]
Over the past 2 months we have had a matching funds campaign in October, our LaGrange Fundraiser in November, and ATN Family Day just a couple of weeks ago. All of these things were great successes for All Things New, and we are so appreciative for everything that each of you have done. Many of […]
The ATN Family Day event yesterday was even more fun for our family than I was expecting. It was a beautiful evening, great weather, fun things to do, and really good food. Our kids’ favorites were the hayride, feeding the animals, the donuts, and the train. It was also great to put some faces to […]
Hopefully many of you already know about ATN Family Day, which is coming up this Sunday from 2:00-5:00 at Chandler Oaks Barn. But I wanted to put one more reminder out there as the event is just a couple of days away. Sunday is going to be a lot of fun! The cost of admission […]
Many of you have been keeping up with our story about Ezekyal and how he was able to travel back to America with us. Yesterday marked 2 weeks since Ezekyal moved in with us and we became a family of 5. There have not been a lot of blog updates because we have spent some […]
If you keep up with All Things New on our blog and social media, then you know there are a lot of things going on right now. We just finished up a matching funds campaign, we have a fundraiser in LaGrange November 11, ATN Family Day in Jacksonville on November 18, we have started a couple […]
As you know, we are currently in the midst of blogging about each of our children individually and focusing on what they hope to do with their future. Our next blog in that series will be about Maekin, and when we met with him to discuss his future I must say it was by far […]
Click the button to give to our matching funds campaign and see your donation doubled! Yolmenda, better known as “Da Da” by pretty much everyone who has ever met her, is 18 and our oldest girl living at All Things New. Back in 2015 we blogged about each of our kids and if you want […]
Today I would like to share with you what Woodly, our second oldest boy, wants for his future. In the fall of 2015 we blogged about each of the kids and shared a little background about where they came from and what they are like. To read Woodly’s blog from 2015, click here and see […]
I know that we have been advertising a lot for our matching funds initiative, and if you missed our announcement, we have a new $6,000 matching funds grant! If you would like to take part in our matching funds grant, just click the donate button or go here. At the same time, we did not […]
