About Me
Hi!
As the administrator of the blog The Education Cafe and author of the books Nine Year Pregnancy, My Paper Pregnancy Journal, and Three Days at Sea, I welcome you to my personal blog!
Family
I have been happily married to the same wonderful man for 24 years. We have 4 kids: 1 son graduated university in 2012
and is married with one child, 2 sons are in university, and we have a 12 year old daughter. Our oldest two sons graduated from online high school (after a combination of homeschool, public school, and private school).
My favorite new role in life: Being “Mimi” to my precious grandson!
Education
I graduated from Liberty University with a Bachelor of Science in Multidisciplinary studies (cognates: Education and Theology).
Hobbies and Interests
My hobbies include writing, baking, and singing. I also enjoy hiking, camping, and traveling. My father was in the Air Force, so I grew up in many locations like Texas, California, Illinois, and Germany. Since being married, I have lived in 4 countries outside of the US and visited about a dozen others. I have also visited at least 34 states. I love to travel and often tell my friends that I’d rather spend money on traveling than on things.
I am passionate about writing and enjoy helping families with their education, parenting, and adoption concerns.
My Blogs
You can find me on twitter @9yrpregnancy and on Facebook as Delana H. Stewart, Adoption and Paper Pregnancy, Nine Year Pregnancy, and Three Days at Sea.
What I hope no one ever says about me:
http://delanasworld.wordpress.com/2012/10/24/she-never-told-me/
My Most popular posts on Delana’s World include:
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For regular updates and interesting tidbits check out and “like” my Facebook pages! Your support is appreciated!
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Nine-Year-Pregnancy/312101615473700
https://www.facebook.com/ThreeDaysAtSea
https://www.facebook.com/DelanaHStewart
https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Education-Cafe/243238679083084
https://www.facebook.com/pages/My-Paper-Pregnancy-Journal/136352423197088
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Adoption-and-Paper-Pregnancy/256021814475350
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Adoption Videos on YouTube
Click here to view Delana’s YouTube Channel–http://www.youtube.com/user/9yrpregnancy Or, click the following for individual videos: Perseverance, Patience, Waiting, and Adoption http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtCRjxjocpI Reading the Preface to Nine Year Pregnancy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8MBjWC8Z_8 Singing “God Will make this trial a blessing” …
Thanks for signing up on my blog, Delana. We have a lot in common. I adopted two children, home schooled them for a while, and lived overseas for over 20 years. And I teach. From the posts I’ve read, you sound like a wise woman.
October 23, 2011 at 8:16 pm
I have many questions for you, do you have a link to an email where we could correspond?
June 13, 2012 at 8:28 am
9yrpregnancy@gmail.com
June 13, 2012 at 9:58 am
thank you!
email in the works right now.
June 13, 2012 at 10:19 am
Hi Delana,
Just came across your wordpress site while working on my own and thought I’d say hi. Besides sharing the same name we share the same love for travel and I have been living in Belgium for the past 23 years plus I lived in other countries while in the US Navy. I also love to write but don’t have much time for it at the moment and I’ve not yet been published. I wanted to adopt at one point but my husband and I settled for sponsoring a Tibetan child in TCV school Suja India….we now sponsor 4 children and have been to India to visit them twice. I hope we can sponsor them to come to us for a visit when they are finished with their studies. Anyway…Hello….and I wish you every success with your site, blog, writing, family…
August 7, 2012 at 2:14 am
Hi Delana! Wow! We do share a lot in common! Many blessings to you and your family!
August 7, 2012 at 7:50 am
Pleasure knowing you!
September 26, 2012 at 11:25 pm
Thanks for stopping by my blog!
November 3, 2012 at 8:28 pm
Hi Delana, When I was in high school I sat across the table from Jerry Falwell and Jack Wyrtsen at Word of Life in NY State with my mom as he discussed his dream of creating a college. I watched in awe as God blessed that dream and in return it blessed you.
What a lovely family you have with such smiling faces! Oh, I can’t forget to thank you for liking my lemon with water blog and I do hope you’ll stop in again! We also lived in West Berlin and Augsburg Germany for six years while my husband was in the army. Loved that vagabond lifestyle and creating so many friends through it. God bless.
December 7, 2012 at 11:04 am
Hi Ellie,
Thanks for sharing! That is neat that you met Jerry Falwell back before he started the college. Today I’m drinking lot of lemon water…though it is in the form of hot water and lemon as I have a terrible sore throat! Blessings,
Delana
December 7, 2012 at 11:41 am
I thought of you this past week when I read a book and I can’t remember if you had written about reading it. It was a must read! http://www.christianbook.com/heavenly-remarkable-story-chinese-christian-brother/brother-yun/9780825462078/pd/45970?en=google-pla&kw=christian-living-0-20&p=1167941&gclid=CMumnayDm7QCFS-RPAod6E8Agg
Blessings
December 14, 2012 at 5:15 pm
It is called The Heavenly Man By Paul Hattaway written about a Chinese Missionary.
December 14, 2012 at 5:16 pm
Thank you so much for following my blog. You are leading such a vibrant life yourself that it’s truly an honor! I’ll look forward to reading more of your posts as well and I do hope you’ll feel comfortable enough to comment because I’d love hearing from you! Blessings,
April 11, 2013 at 7:46 am
Hi Delana,
I’m reaching out to you on behalf of PlayLab because the postings and social networking on your blog reflects our own beliefs about children and education. We have an amazing new initiative coming up, and I wanted to get more information on contributing to your site.
Like you, PlayLab thinks differently about education. We believe that creativity and innovation are the most important traits to nurture. Imagine a workplace where every member of the team is able to develop creative business solutions. Imagine children excited to learn, instead of asking, “Why do I have to learn this?”/ Imagine your child
showing you how to operate the Morse Code system they made out of pipe cleaners, and craft sticks, instead of asking you to purchase the latest video game.
We’re launching a Kickstarter campaign to raise funding for our new at-home learning system, which will have a global impact. The successful project will also raise social awareness and create a new following for this type of innovative education that benefits children, and will allow us – and our social partners, like your blog
- to create new connections and develop new audiences.
All the best,
Kassia Kukurudza Programs Manager
PlayLab
May 7, 2013 at 10:54 am