As many of you know, our family has been on a long journey toward adoption. After months of waiting, praying, and navigating paperwork, we have reached a major milestone. We are finally preparing to travel to pick up our children! In the coming weeks, we will be traveling to Liberia, and then to the United States to finalize the process, before returning home with the two newest members of our family—an 8-year-old girl and a 6-year-old boy. They are biological siblings whose
I absolutely love etymology. I am the kind of person who is constantly, and probably obsessively, looking up where words come from. At this point, my kids know far more than they would ever care to know about word origins. I’m sure they will thank me for it one day... right? Finding out where a word comes from feels like uncovering a secret, a key that unlocks the "real" or "original" meaning of what we are saying. But in our quest for depth, especially in teaching, writing,
