Lux et umbra vicissum…

Swim lessons…
    
    
A (chicken) pox on Eli!

And this past week was VBS. I volunteered to work in the nursery, but due to there being plenty of workers in nursery and my almost-kindergartener throwing a fit, I ended up transferring to kindergarten. I learned something very valuable – large groups of small children don’t scare [...]

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I set up an etsy site.
http://beadsnwood.etsy.com
Thanks for the suggestion, Nat!  I made it so that Joel can list some of his woodworking there at some point, too.  Now I’ll have to try to finish up a bunch of my UFO’s – unfinished objects!  I’m building up quite a collection of them at this [...]

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I haven’t felt much like blogging lately.  My grandmother took a turn for the worse a couple days ago and they were sure she wasn’t going to make it.  She rallied a bit, though, and is still hanging on.  I’m just trying not to get my hopes up too high.  The whole thing is incredibly [...]

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Items accomplished yesterday:
notarized numerous papers
got money orders for background checks
kept track of five small children
mailed background check requests
mailed requests for reference letters
bought many, many stamps
set up sleepover for Alexis for tonight
finished fund-raising letter
wrote down over 250 names of people to send letter to
created and printed post-placement report pictures for Desta and Eli
Things still to do:
go [...]

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We’re getting close.  Our home study update is almost done, and it won’t be long before we have all of our dossier together.  Then comes the real faith test: to send in the dossier we’ll need to have more than $15,000.  Right now we have maybe a couple thousand that we’ve saved.  (We’ve already paid [...]

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Thought I’d post a picture of Eli’s cake from Monday.  Joel’s been out of town for business for a couple of days since then, so my parents are helping me out.  Joel will be back tomorrow and I’ll be back onto a more normal schedule.  I’ll try to pick up typing up the journal entries [...]

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[Since I can't post their names yet, I'll call my future daughters L and B.  I'll also remove parts of my entry that were mostly notes for another family on their own daughter or things that say too much info about L and B.]
I spent much of the day – from 11 AM to 5 [...]

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You’ll read the obituary in the papers soon. “Woman missing after paperwork avalanche – presumed dead.” So, meeting our girls really put me in turbo mode. There wasn’t a whole lot I could do before, but now that our first adoption is finalized everything else can be done… and I’m trying to [...]

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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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