How has your Web site benefited you? Your friends? Or total strangers?
I've grown a lot both spiritually in trusting God and have become more self confident and independent because of my experience with adoption, the site I've created and people I have come in contact with, and have met many interesting people. 

If you had to do it over again from the beginning, what would you change?
I have never looked at it that way. My site for the past 5 years is constantly being remodeling and added on to. Just the other day, I reformatted one of my most popular pages with new images/background and updates. Since my entire site is so personally me, I feel its evolved as I have and there is no reason to look back and think what I could have done then, that I do now, because back then, I wasn't the person I have become now. No regrets. 

What are your favorite things on your site?
The resource page on financial assitance to help others afford adoption. Seems to be the most viewed. (Receives over 200 hits a day and is attached to many other sites.) I complied the listing of non-profit adoption grant organizations when I was searching for financial help with our adoptions over the years. I love the pages I have up on my Christian philosophy on adoption and older parenting and they have been selected for articles in national adoption magazines and internet adoption sites. And of course, I love my children's page where I am free to write (and brag a little)about our children's success stories. 

What do you look for in an personal Web site, as a viewer?
A person's unique character and not some professional and business-like page. I want to get a sense of the person behind the webpage and that is what I try to do with my page, making it uniquely individual and me. I don't care what others may think. Its what and how I feel. AND I am sure its not appealing to everyone, but that's ok. Its my statement to the world and thats important to me. 

What is "one word" that would describe your site?
Well, 'Beautiful' to me. Because its God founded and full of my beliefs and faith in Him.

Because of your site do you consider yourself a Web celebrity, an exhibitionist, a public figure, a writer, an innovator, or something different? To some extent. But I'd classify myself under the catagory of 'an example'. An example to the world (as so many others have also shown in their lives) of what simple faith in the Lord can bring you. Our children are testimony of that faith. All were brought into the world with challenges and if your read through my entire site you will feel a sense of fulfillment and joy over the miracle of who they are now.

How do you tackle the mechanics of Web design and how do you deal with your frustrations when you can't do what you envision. I ask my husband, the expert and for the most part accept the limitations the computer offers. But I have learned alot the 5 years I have been working on it and feel safe to say am finally an html graduate. I have since designed two other webpages for professional business and they asked for my helped because they liked the 'personalness' of my site.

Why do you think people are interested in your family, what they do, and/or what they have to say? They seek my website out for encouragement & guidance on adoption. Our story and faith offer them HOPE. Our world is in need of HOPE in a big way!

What compels you to design beautiful pages and to write from the heart (beyond just the usual question of "why do you write a Web site?") My desire is to help as any orphaned children find homes as I can in my lifetime ANd to encourage more parents that do not suffer from infertilitly issues, to step forward also and minister through adoption to a child in need. There are 15 million homeless children in the world today! If each of us felt the responsibility of taking just one child into our home to love and help reach their full potential in life, the world would be a much better place and would greatly enrich their own lives in the process.