Adoption Rodeo

This blog post goes out to my fellow adoptive fathers, particularly the first timers (i.e. rookies) out there who are just getting rolling on the craziest emotional ride of your lives. Oh no, I’m not referring to the ups and downs of the adoption process itself. I’m referring to being married to an expecting adoptive [...]

What are you going to do about it?

Nearly three years ago, shortly after making the decision to adopt a baby girl from Africa, Andrea and I had an after dinner conversation that ended up laying the foundation for a mission and a passion that we never could have imagined.
As we sat around our dinner table that night, we were just beginning the [...]

Meeting A Child For The First Time

This video provides a glimpse into the glory of adoption, a glory which triumphed over every obstacle and challenge we faced along the way.  I hope it will encourage you in some small way.  This video was taken a little over a year and a half ago in Ethiopia when we were blessed to meet our [...]

Adoption: Loud & Proud!

During the past 15 months as an adoptive father, I’ve been in countless social situations (grocery stores, ball games, birthday parties etc.) with my little girl (Gigi) and have noticed a strange pattern in our culture. People (this includes anyone from friends & family to the average Joe on the street) have a bizarre tendency [...]