Hicks Hiking

This is a story about how small the world is, and about how the smallest kindness can sometimes be the thing that keeps you sane. It wa...

For over a year now we've had basically no control over the adoption process. All we can do right now is wait , and wait ,  and pray , ...

Our Sweet Baby J, Today is your birthday. Three years old! It's the second birthday that you have passed since we asked to become y...

My God, It was a year ago today that I first laid eyes on her. She was so tiny, so sad and beautiful, and leaping right off the page at...

I never thought I would hate any word as much as I hate the word "Ready" right now. I've seen it so many times that the word ...

Seven Months . That's right, seven. Honestly, I thought we had the whole waiting thing on lock. I mean, we've been in this adoption...

After our  heartbreaking near-miss with the adoption Special Home Finding (SHF) list last spring, I thought for sure that I had learned ca...

Those of you who know me know that I tend to write our life on delay. Partly, that's for security reasons. But it's also because I...

Hi friends! OK, I admit it, I have been neglecting this blog. Honestly, it's been a hard few months, between crazy changes at home , an...

It’s Christmas Eve today, and I’m just not in the Christmas spirit. I really expected to be, but I’m not. I really should be. Aft...

In July, we passed the two years mark in our Philippines adoption journey, and this month makes eighteen that we have been on the approved ...

Amidst a great cosmic swirl of happenings (about which I will write more later), a milestone came and went without our noticing it. April 1...

Well, technically three and a half. By the time we get past Thanksgiving next week, Jake will have been deployed for four months.  In som...