Lux et umbra vicissum…

Just a heads-up to anyone checking the blog. We’ll be moving to Word Press soon, and the site will have a new look and feel. It’ll be a little friendlier. Didn’t get much time to blog today. We got one of those wonderful parenting rewards… the chance to clean up vomit. Charis has a stomach […]

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For our first adoption, we had to complete a full home study. A home study is an incredibly detailed document created by a social worker in which she says whether or not she thinks you’re a fit family to adopt a child. Part of the home study has to do with whether or not you […]

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And this morning we got the papers witnessed for the new adoption that needed to be witnessed, and I got them out in the mail this afternoon! One more step in the right direction! And the Lord provided the funds for this first installment towards the second adoption (an initial agency fee of $2500). We’re […]

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We got the letters from the doctor supporting the birth date change yesterday, made it to the notary yesterday afternoon to sign the petitions, and I ran them plus all of the Ethiopian court document photocopies and copies of the birth certificates from Ethiopia to the court house this morning! Hurray!!! It’s a great feeling […]

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You can’t stop time. It’s funny how a mother (and a father to some extent, I’m sure) experiences a mix of pride, joy, and grief with each new accomplishment of her child. The pride and joy are pretty obvious, I think, but that little tinge of grief is usually hidden in the background, a sorrow […]

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Wow. We’re only in the beginning stages, and I’m already feeling lost in the paperwork! In some ways we don’t have as much this time since we don’t have to have a full home study done, just a home study update, but since we also have to finalize our first adoption we have some things […]

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… of laundry, that is. A load by any other name would smell as stinky. Sometimes it’s a literal stink (I mean, we’re dealing with small children here remember). Other times it’s more of a figurative stench. You know, that “Didn’t I just wash these same clothes a couple days ago?” smell. The “Whoever crossbred […]

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One of Desta’s favorite phrases which the others have picked up now is “I’m not happy with you.” Of course, when they say it to each other it’s a terrible tragedy. They don’t get quite the same reaction from me. The best response I’ve come up with is, “That’s ok; I love you anyway.” However, […]

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Adoption, by nature, is one of those processes that you question any number of times along the way. Well, at least a lot of people do. Whether people approach adoption from the point of infertility and question whether they should have just kept trying, or whether you approach it as we are from a point […]

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Pardon me if this entry goes in circle. Eli is standing next to my chair saying, “Mommy mommy mommy mommy mommy mommy mommy…” It’s a little bit distracting. Oh, now he switched to, “Up up up up up…” So now he’ll be helping me type. 🙂 Here he is looking out from between Daddy’s knees: […]

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