Lux et umbra vicissum…

Just thought I’d post a quick picture of the bracelets I made for the girls. I’ll give them their bracelets sort of as a piece of promise jewelry… a pledge that we’ll return for them.
Though it isn’t immediately obvious, I used the colors of the Ethiopian and American flags when making these. The […]

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I had told Joel some time ago that I was going to take everything with the adoption one at a time at this point unless God showed me somehow clearly that I needed to hurry the heck up.  Which means, mainly, that I wasn’t going to allow myself to be surrounded by paperwork but would […]

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God is so good!!!! In the mail today were the papers from the judge saying that Desta and Eli are officially ours by the laws of the state of Virginia, their names are officially changed as are their birth dates, and we can look for Virginia birth certificates to be arriving in the mail […]

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It’s funny, but especially within the first several months after bringing Desta & Eli home, one of the most common comments I heard was, “Wow!  They already call you mommy!  That’s wonderful!”  It sounded funny to me every time, though I didn’t really think about it that much the first couple of times it was […]

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http://www.cafepress.com/familyhope
In time for Mother’s Day, too, so look for gifts there!
I wanted to name our store “Help the Whelps!” but Joel thought some people might not be as amused by that as I was. So we settled on “Families of Hope” which is inoffensive, I think. I’m not sure why we had to […]

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Did you know that wild onions make good bait for ice fishing? Well, it’s true! At least according to my dream it is. But it’s hard to get the fish to take the hook and not just eat the onion off of it from the side. Smart fish.
Oh, and some crazy […]

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Writing a letter can be difficult for many people.  What to say, how to say it, what impressions you’re going to make, knowing how certain things will be taken when read… it can be a daunting task.

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I know several people check here regularly, so I wanted to explain this right away.  I took down two of my posts because I found out they were beginning to cause a bit of panic among some of the adoptive community.  There’s really nothing to panic about.  There was a miscommunication somewhere along the line […]

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When we brought her home, we could tell that she was adventurous, but she was also overwhelmed.  She had come from a small home (most likely a hut) where she was starving despite her mother’s best efforts, to a place where everyone had their own bed, no one lived in one room, and there’s more […]

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It’s a good thing I’ve learned to laugh at myself over the years.  If I hadn’t, I wouldn’t be able to post about this sort of thing.
You may know from a previous post that we received some court papers in the mail, but I wasn’t sure what they were or why we got […]

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