This week we celebrate a lot of adoption goodness for Team Sublett. Gotcha Day is the day that adoptive families receive their adopted child. In our family, we’ve got 2 this week. Josie moved in with us 10.22.2010, and Isaac was waiting for us in a hotel lobby in Hohhot, Read more…
Earlier in the semester Team Sublett signed up to have an international student from Penn State come over to eat supper with us. Our church is pretty active with international students, and seeing as our family is literally 1/3 international students, we figured this would be a good fit. Kim Read more…
Some of my favorite moments of each day are the last ones–bedtime for the kiddos. With lots of children in the house, there were years of on-going tales, special songs, nightly rituals, and some of the best snuggling on the planet. Now that Charlie is flying solo in the tuck-in-able Read more…
It’s pretty remarkable, no doubt about it. I also have a 17 year old. And a 16, 15 (in 2 weeks), 14, 13, and 12 year old. Just typing that makes me laugh. I got to tell part of our adoption journey (Charlie and Isaac’s stories) this past Sunday at Read more…
I’ve written some pretty detailed posts about my daughter Josie’s ear surgeries. If you want to read them they are here, here, here, and here. But the cliff’s notes version is that Josie was practically deaf. Scar tissue from years of untreated infections marred her ear canals. Both ear drums Read more…
We spent a great afternoon with some fabulous friends today. Levi had to work, so he wasn’t able to join us, but we spent the evening at DelGrosso’s Amusement Park in terrific Tipton, PA. Folks who have a season pass can bring a guest into the park with them every Read more…
I’m pretty sure she found them at walmart. Kim bought a small pack of glow-in-the-dark stars (plus one crescent moon) for Charlie’s room. The boy loves the moon and stars. One of the first words that he could pronounce–he doesn’t have many at this point–is MOON. There have been nights Read more…
I was frantically trying to assemble the new grill so that Curtis Price would have a nice workspace for our 4th of July party. Of course, it was mere hours before the party and I was attempting to slap the grill together as Levi and Isaac were putting the finishing Read more…
It’s just the beginning of the season, but I love it already! Tonight after supper Levi got everybody organized and out the back door for a twilight wiffleball game! There were 5 kids playing ball, and Lilly had Charlie on the trampoline. It was all I could do to get Read more…
Kim called me several times today. Each time she found me in a meeting with one group or another. Tuesday is a meeting-heavy day if you’re part of Calvary’s staff, I suppose. And while I’m not really quick to self-identify, I’ve learned the value of facetime with quality people, and Read more…