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The beginning of the end

November 24, 2014 By Wendy Willard · 1 Comment ·

Love this little boy!

It absolutely surprised me. I said good-bye to the last adopting family to live with us and suddenly was overcome with emotion. What is going on? I haven’t cried like this since the very first family left us two years ago! On that morning, I sat in the hammock holding the infant boy who had […]

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Filed Under: + Adoption Care, + Why are we here?, Catching Up · Tagged With: fostering in Nicaragua, missions, Nicaragua, transition

Looking for an adoption care partner

May 8, 2014 By Wendy Willard · 1 Comment ·

If a family is willing to forever love an orphan, then shouldn't we — His hands and feet — do whatever we can to walk beside them through the process?

A few weeks back, I wrote about how we decided to quit the game of asking adopting families for money, during the time in which they live in our home. I told you this came about after we realized how much the money stress was getting to us… But there are a few more things […]

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Filed Under: + Adoption Care · Tagged With: fostering in Nicaragua, international adoption, Nicaragua

We Quit

March 21, 2014 By Wendy Willard · 4 Comments ·

We quit the game.

We’re almost nine months into our second year here, living in a house that is way too big for our family alone so we can work in adoption care. We’ve had one new missionary family and four adopting families stay with us so far, but we’ve been “empty” since the middle of February. We’re excited […]

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Filed Under: + Adoption Care, + Service Opps · Tagged With: adoption, fostering in Nicaragua, money, rent

FIT to be together

May 31, 2013 By Wendy Willard · Leave a Comment ·

Over the past few months, we’ve talked a lot about how much we want to help the families traveling to Nicaragua to adopt orphans. While we aren’t adopting ourselves (at least not at this point), we have a desire to do whatever we can to ensure the families who come here to adopt are able […]

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Filed Under: + Adoption Care, Family Life · Tagged With: adoption process, fostering in Nicaragua

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