How To Use This Site

For those of you not familiar with the internet or blogging (we're beginners with blogs ourselves) we thought we'd give you some ideas of how to use this site. First of all, we created it to keep our friends and family in the loop with our adoption process. We've also added other information that we thought you'd like to know, like some info about Cystic Fibrosis. We named the blog "Our Family" because it's the story about how we are expanding our little family.

We’ve shared with you in these posts some things which normally would be considered private, because we want our family and friends to be involved in the miracle of bringing home a daughter from the other side of the world.

At the top of the screen is our Profile, which tells you a little about us. You can also click on the words "view my complete profile" and it will show you more info about us. From here you can click on the word "Email" and you can send us an email. Back on the main page, you will see "Recent Posts" listed on the left hand side. Posts are the text that we put on the page. At the end of each post you will see some standard text and maybe a comment left by another person. You can click on "0 comment" (or whatever # of comments there are) and post a comment. It will show up on our website for other people to read. Or you can click on the picture of an envelope at the end of a post. This will allow you to send us an email directly.

We recommend scrolling down the page to read the posts, because we are putting them in the order that they should be read, with the oldest posts at the end. They will also be sorted by month on the left hand side of the screen. Under "Recent Posts" you can also click on any of the posts and it will take you directly to that post and skip the ones ahead of it. For some reason, several of the posts disappear when you only choose one of them. We found that if you click the "Back" button on your browser they will eventually reappear.

Hope this is helpful. - Please let us know if any of it is confusing. - Send us a comment or email!! :-)