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Category Archives: Uncategorized  today was a big one for two little girls in Uganda they met the women who have prayed for them loved them, watched them grow, longed for them for the past seven months today was better than I could have ever imagined it feels so right and perfect and planned the four of us have…  we just put two and two together and realized that these two pictures were taken almost exactly one year apart I’m in awe of all that has transpired in the past year so much has changed and so much is still the same and all of it is good with the…  **I don’t know if enough people read this to make “linking up” any fun, but if you’d like to do a Sunday “capture gratitude” post, leave me a comment with your blog link so that others can enjoy your snaps of gratitude. The idea behind these posts was taken from the following quotation from Fredrick… 
http://tianajane.wordpress.com/2011/09/03/capture-gratitude-3/ My Capture Gratitude this week centered around the aftermath of Hurricane Irene on the US East Coast … 
Thanks for sharing the link, Tiana! 
This is a GREAT idea! I’ll be joining next week and so will my daughter Melissa!! 
I love your blog so much and I love reading your posts! It’s a great reminder of how precious life is and how grateful I should be for the life I have. Thank you for taking the time to post! You have a truly amazing heart. Kelly 
Hi Mandie… I’m sure you saw that I copied your idea… but your posts always bring me to tears and make my gratitude so much bigger. We continue to be amazed by you every day. Hope all is well. Will miss you in SC! 
Hey Mandie. Love the post this week. Miss you and everyone and even Ugandan take out and red dirt. I love my let love grow shirt too. And I can’t believe E3 and AR are six months old. How did that happen?  ** this is a newly unprotected post from July 4th, 2011** the 4th of July is one of my favorite holidays every year up until this one, it has been about watermelon, corn on the cob, water skiing, grandparents, pretzels dipped in white chocolate, the smell of a grill, fireworks, family freedom. This year, I…  **I don’t know if enough people read this to make “linking up” any fun, but if you’d like to do a Sunday “capture gratitude” post, leave me a comment with your blog link so that others can enjoy your snaps of gratitude. The idea behind these posts was taken from the following quotation from Fredrick… 
So wonderful! 
Oh, Eden! I pray for you!  I posted a picture last week of our crazy family. We intentionally took it just as we are. Dirty. Off-center. Naked littles. Greasy hair. Fussy babies. Etc. That is what our lives are like most days. You often write and say how you envy our lives, but I think if you look closely, you’ll see… 
You’re all absolutely gorgeous and massively inspiring!! God is wondrous!  9:24 am: live blogging it’s something that overwhelms me, actually but my sweet crazy roommates, Christina and Rachel have decided that we should try it I agreed and then decided to just photograph their live blogging day [which is pretty accurate representation of our lives - me behind the camera] so please hop over to… 
[...] a nap. I guess I’ll work on another lesson for my class. In the meantime, hope on over to Mandie’s blog and see a very accurate picture of our crazy little [...]  I can’t go into much detail, which those of you knee-deep in the adoption world will understand. What I can say is that God FOUGHT on behalf of our children today. Some big walls came down and it looks like they are a few steps closer to home. Rachel and I stood back amazed as… 
Amen. Love you two. And all those yummy babes. 
Hooray for the gas drops! …and I’m quite impressed by the thought of you eating not one, but a few grasshoppers! 
love your smile too Mandie! Hugs & prayers Grandma E 
You’re Blessed ~ Love your blog!  if you give a man a baby… and you ask him to carry her for a while… and he is wandering around a medical clinic… and he gets tired of carrying her… and he finds the infant weighing scale… and takes it apart… you might find your baby like this an hour later…
Too funny! 
Ha ha ha! It’s like a baby purse! Love it 
HILARIOUS! That is how all my babies were weighed and it cracks me up to see her hanging on some man’s hip. Ugandans are very ingenuitive, aren’t they?! 
I think I almost woke Jason up laughing at this..oh my. So. freaking. funny.  If you remember from my post from January, we received a HUGE blessing from Vintage Coture (aka My Vintage Baby) in the form of five very large boxes of clothes that they donated to the little ones at an orphanage down the road from us. We took the majority of the clothes to the orphanage… 
I LOVE reading your blog!!! So beautiful these children are and so beautiful your heart for partnering with Jesus and being His friend this way. I love seeing how you selflessly pour out all that you are to these children, which is really pouring out your life at His feet. Having done foster care and now adopting, I know how hard this journey in the US can be……I can only imagine what it is like overseas with a lot less ‘comfort’. Blessings to you and thanks so much for sharing!
AMAZING photo of so many beautiful children! I love the clothes! 
What a great thing to do for these special children. Love their little faces! |
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CIndy - Wonderful news!
Jessica Rudder - It may be an end, but it’s a beautiful one.
Also, should I ever be blessed with a baby girl, I want you to be her personal stylist. I’m consistently blown away by how adorably the girls in your care were dressed. Eli was dressed cute too, but I’m a sucker for little girls’ clothes.