Entropy in Action

Our home study is finally complete and we have the approval letter from Illinois DCFS, which only took about 2 or 3 weeks; not bad.
This means that our Haiti dossier is complete, and since Scott is now 35, we officially qualify for a child referral.
Of course, things in Haiti are still in limbo.  We don't yet know how adoptions will continue in Haiti, and our agency is being cautiously optimistic.  They have advised families who don't yet have a referral (that is, who haven't been officially matched...

If you're not adopting internationally, you may never have heard of the Hague Convention. Basically, it's a set of rules and guidelines that many countries have agreed to abide by when handling international adoptions - designed to try to prevent child...

The last piece of paperwork finally arrived! For an international adoption, we are required to get child abuse clearances from every state we've lived in as an adult; for me, that includes Arizona, which quoted me 8-10 weeks (to get them to check a box...

So we just tackled the whole "animals in heaven" thing.
Today, thanks in part to our church's "Journey to the Cross" program (which I really appreciate every year; thanks, Melissa!) I got a couple more problems.
On the way home, we were talking again about why Jesus had to die. In discussing the concept of sin, and the fact that every person except Jesus is/was a sinner, Miles pauses for a second. Then he says, "What about Juliet? She can't even TALK yet!"...