Category Archives: Adoption

Walking with Sorrow

Posted on April 23, 2014 by bryoniemoon

“But we never knew, we children, because the death of a baby is a melody played softly through its mother’s life like an intimate dirge, and you have to have died a little yourself to hear the music.” (in Nora … Continue reading →

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Not My Own

Posted on September 6, 2013 by bryoniemoon

We went to Sam’s the other day to shop and get our tires rotated. Of course if you take Judah to Sam’s you must buy him a hotdog. It’s the deal. (I blame his daddy entirely for this.) So there … Continue reading →

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Reflections on Four Years

Posted on April 5, 2013 by bryoniemoon

We haven’t been out to Hillside for months. The snow and our busy lives kept us away. But standing at the grave it is easy to open the flood gates. Suddenly four years disappears and it all happened yesterday. The … Continue reading →

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Greetings and a new beginning

Posted on August 12, 2012 by bryoniemoon

Hello dear people, I’m starting to feel like the Elizabeth Taylor of bloggers…switching hosts every few years as the whim takes me. Terribly sorry about that. But I have a hunch I might actually stick with this one. Unlike some … Continue reading →

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Heroism (May 2012)

Posted on August 12, 2012 by bryoniemoon

I have been thinking a lot lately about courage. Supposedly a better translation of the virtuous woman in Proverbs 31 is the heroic woman. She is said to “laugh at the days to come.” That never made sense to me. … Continue reading →

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Stories (June 2011)

Posted on August 10, 2012 by bryoniemoon

Here I am again…still loving my little blog and loving all you dear readers and falling in love with my darling. I have to say it still fills me with amazement that the Lord gave us such a beautiful little … Continue reading →

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Grace Upon Grace (March 2011)

Posted on August 10, 2012 by bryoniemoon

Thank you, thank you, thank you all you wonderful friends for your love and rejoicing and the comments that you leave here, which I LOVE, by the way. 🙂 Judah has no idea how many dear people are rejoicing over … Continue reading →

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Joy Comes in the Morning (January 2011)

Posted on August 10, 2012 by bryoniemoon

I feel like I should be full of eloquence in this moment, finally sitting to post an entry about the arrival and adoption of our son. I find I have no words, which is probably okay considering what most of … Continue reading →

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Only The Trying (December 2010)

Posted on August 10, 2012 by bryoniemoon

“For us there is only the trying. The rest is none of our business.” T.S.Eliot somehow manages once more to send a zinger straight into my heart. This is where I have lived for so long – wrestling with God … Continue reading →

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Courts of the Lord (September 2010)

Posted on August 10, 2012 by bryoniemoon

My sister reminds me sometimes that the fulfillment of our desire to adopt does not rest on the birthmoms or lawyers or social workers. It feels like it, but it doesn’t. And, of course, what she’s telling me is that … Continue reading →

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