Welcome! What in the world is Fufu??

Welcome to our family blog! It is here we'll continue to document the happenings of 'life' as we progress bringing our new little ones home. Along the way, we'll be updating the timeline to the right of the blog roll, giving information on Ghana, fundraising for the orphans, or any other information that seems reasonable. More than anything, we feel so blessed to be part of this trip and wanted to share our experiences with those who are close to us.

We are a family of 6 that is responding to a prompting Brandie received over two years ago. She felt inspired that adoption is something we needed to look into. It took her just over a year to muster up the courage to talk with me about it. To her surprise (enjoyment) I was open to the idea. The rest, as they say, is history (in the making). I'll try and either import some of the postings from our other personal blogs or make several posts to give more detail of our whole process. Either way, we're excited that this year we'll have Mighty and Agbesi home forever.

What's with the blog name???

Fufu originated from Ghana, where it is pronounced "fufuo". The word fufu comes from the Twi language. It is eaten with light (tomato) soup, palm nut soup, groundnut (peanut)-abenkwan soup or other types of soups with vegetables such as nkontomire (cocoyam leaves). Soups are often made with different kinds of meat and fish, fresh or smoked. Fufu is basically pounded cassava or pounded yam or pounded plantain. It is eaten with agussi soup or stew in Ghana.