I've been married to Troy for 10 years and we have 4 children. Caleb is 7, Rachel is 6 , Sam is 3, and Sarah is 2. My real blogs are here...

Regular Blog:
http://djbryant.blogspot.com

Adoption Blog:
http://journey2number4.blogspot.com


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I'm testing out Blogger, we'll see if I like it. Right now I can tell there's no mood icons or "what I'm reading" or "what I'm listening to". So, I'll post it anyway! What do you think of Blogger? What I like about it is that it's very flexible with where I can put pictures, text, slideshows, links, etc... You can post anonymously on it, too, so ( Read more... )

Yesterday was quite pleasant. In the morning my mom & I went to the Grand Rapids Children's Museum, which was pretty cool. They had all sorts of tables set up with doctors and nurses and volunteer people who led the kids do all sorts of medical stuff. There was a car with a seatbelted in egg and a not seatlbelted in egg and the kids got to watch it ( Read more... )

A so-so day. That's all. Wish I could say more about it!

I got the motivation last night to fill out some adoption grant applications and I stayed up 'til 2am doing that. Who knows what will happen with those, it would be wonderful to get a grant. Even a small amount would help greatly. We are up to 3 grants we've applied to, though we don't expect ( Read more... )

Wow, I'm behind! I'll quick update you, so you don't think I've been sitting down watching tv all day!

Saturday: gave plasma at 7:30am, church at 9:30am (taught 3&4 yr old class), left church at 1:30pm, went to Meijer, went home & whipped up some food goodies, at 6pm we left to go to the Roarks' home for a get together of our young married group of ( Read more... )

music: wayfm (it's cool, you can listen, too! go to www.way.fm/player)

I cannot believe it's been 2 years since Sam's been born. Wow, time just flies by. He was such a big dude coming into this world (10 lbs, 8 oz) and has just filled up everywhere he goes with love and smiles and hugs.


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This morning my old friend, Sheila, came over to my house and we spent a few hours catching up on each other's lives. I've known Sheila since she was a baby and I was just a toddler! We lost touch with each other since we've become adults and it feels good to reconnect.

After Sheila left, I took the kids and picked up my sister Janet. She was ( Read more... )

We had a fabulous trip to Pittsburgh!

Friday: We left mid-morning and got to Pittsburgh around noon. We stopped by Miranda & Mustafa's new fabric store, called Fabric Barn. They've only owned it a month and have done a lot of renovating and tons of work to it. It was fun to see where Miranda spends her days. Their baby, Altai, goes to work with her ( Read more... )

7:45am: woke up by alarm and made some coffee, watched news coverage of the shootings (I haven't watched any until today ( Read more... )

Well, no more sick kids, which is wonderful! Rachel woke up Sunday morning just as happy as ever and none of the kids are sick now. Yay! Troy's feeling under the weather (pretty sure he's got our bug) and he's going to stay home tomorrow in order to rest as he has school at night and a busy week.

Sunday was wonderful. Debbie picked me up at 8am and ( Read more... )