This is my last Boy Mom post. Five years I’ve been telling these stories. Stories of adoption, faith and family. Stories of five boys,...

The dragonflies were out yesterday afternoon when we returned from the airport. Somehow this seemed symbolic. My boys taking flight all...

Dear Jimmy, You are amazing. An Anomaly. Dad said so just the other day, talking to someone at a wedding. Four and a half years you’ve...

How are you doing with all of this? Everyone asks and I hardly know what to say. I’m not sure, to be honest. Years ago, when the boys...

Luke Anderson blesses his mom with a Mother’s Day post. Mom likes stories. Of course, you don’t need me to tell you that; you read her...

I’ve been CLEANING. Not so much spring cleaning, as season-of-life-cleaning. This move thing is getting real, twenty-three years of...

A few nights ago Kyle and I watched the movie Instant Family. It was Felipe’s idea. He’d watched it in the theater with Marcella, and...

Earlier this week I ran across something I wrote in the fall of 2014. Just weeks away from our trip to Colombia, still waiting, still...

(Photo credit to Kiana Grant Photography) We’re back in the Jeep, heading home, six of us in close quarters. It’s two days past our...

(Photo credit to Kiana Grant Photography) The boy is on the road, heading due west. Like a pioneer. Good-bye Iowa, and if all goes as...

kianagrantphotography.com I’m a bit obsessed with Ben Rector’s newest album. Not since Crowder’s A Collision, released in 2005, have I...

(Jimmy’s senior photo shoot by kianagrantphotography.com) Tuesday was a hard day. Monday I endured bravely the driving away and the...

You’d think I’d be used to it by now. This packing up and moving out and saying good-bye. It’s the same thing every fall, and summers,...

It was just three of us sitting at the fire Wednesday night. Luke’s friends on their way back to the city, and parents savoring a few...

We’re living a love story. Me and my family. And I’m not just talking about Luke and Ali, although there’s no doubt about the boy’s...

It was the name of the new playlist Nils created and shared with our family, and it was me who asked it. Why GOAT? I have a history with...

It’s a GIRL!!!! Our little Maisy Rae, born last week, and what does this mean for a boy-mom Grandma?!! Nana, that is. And I’m telling you...

Love is the silver bullet. I said it without even thinking. Or thinking out loud more like. Church staff gathered around tables, talking...

Us. It took me a while to tune into the show everyone else had been talking about. Last fall we even named a sermon series after it at...

There are believers in Minnesota. No doubt, there’s no other explanation than this. They’re calling it the Minneapolis Miracle – the...