…of traveling to bring home our girls in August, posting here may be a little spotty during the first half of the month. However, I am planning to post travel updates and stories over on my Ethiopian Adoption Blog if time — and tetchy Ethiopian phone lines– allow it. So if you want the...
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My heart is so much with our girls right now. They have so many changes coming. So little in their lives will stay the same. There’s so much to learn, so much to adjust to…. I would really appreciate prayer for our whole family, but especially for them. Most of all I am praying...
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…we may have become the legal parents of two more children….or not… No news yet. (deep breath….praying hard.)
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I’ve discovered a strange side effect to adopting older children. You start looking around at your life, and get the urge to spruce things up a bit. Strange things. Last night the little kids and I could be seen pulling weeds around the woodpile. Today I have every intention of restacking the dumb thing....
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…COURT DATE!! On June 29th our adoption case will be heard in court in Ethiopia!! Pray everything goes well and that we pass on our first attempt. 16 days.
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Proverbs 25:25 One of the neatest things about our agency is the support families give each other. I just got an email from another mom currently in Addis adopting a baby. She SAW our girls and delivered a letter to them– and then took time to write me a note from Addis. She says:...
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…but this afternoon I started packing. It was so much fun to pull out those big suitcases and think about taking off on such a great adventure again. I mostly packed clothes for our new girls. Thanks to the generosity of friends (thanks, Beth!!!) and just a tiny bit of shopping on my own,...
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News over here!! Now, where’d I stash that suitcase anyway?
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(sung to the tune of “Busy, busy, dreadfully busy” from Veggie Tales -Heroes from the Bible) I am going slowly crazy here. FOr the past five days, ever since our agency director reached Ethiopia, I have been hoping for some news about our girls: either their reaction to their welcome bags or news about...
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This evening we had a birthday bash for our son who just turned 9, which meant that this afternoon we found ourselves scurrying around pulling sweat socks out from under the couch and wiping fingerprints off windows and scrubbing jam off dining room chairs. (Oh, AND installing lovely new porch lights on our front...
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