Lux et umbra vicissum…

It’s taken me longer than I like to post this, but I hope most of you will understand why once you’ve read the whole thing. As most of you know, our two new daughters will be arriving home with Daddy tomorrow morning. Yay! Now for further news…   When we started this adoption process, Joel […]

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We only need about $4000 now to bring the girls home!!!  If anyone wants to donate, it’s tax deductible!  You can get one more tax deduction for this year if you do it this month.  And what a fabulous Christmas gift for two lonely girls…. a family! We’ve been expecting to hear that the home […]

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The 3 AM results of having a wakeful, imaginative, dramatic five year old – Branwen: daddy…. Daddy…. DADDY!!! Me: (hobbling groggily into her room) Daddy is sick.  What do you need? Branwen: (with no fear in her voice but plenty of drama) I saw a CIRCLE OF DARKNESS!!!!  And I’m SCARED!!! Me: (still groggily) There’s […]

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We are all finishing a very yummy dinner of turkey, gravy, sweet potato casserole, and cranberry sauce.  Alexis really liked the cranberry sauce, but apparently not enough to remember what it was called. Alexis: May I have… um… may I have some more… um…. (pause) Alexis: May I have some more New Zealand? Joel gave […]

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(Said after her sister screamed because she saw a mosquito…) Branwen: I’m not scared of anything!  Not now!  Because monsters aren’t real and I never met a bear.

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It actually started with Eli this time.  One day he started coughing, and next thing we knew we could hear him wheezing and crackling every time he breathed.  Off to the doctor he went, and came back with antibiotics (unnecessary, I think, because it seems viral), a diagnosis of pneumonia, and instructions to do breathing […]

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There are several things that fall by the wayside when my back goes out badly.  House cleaning is one.  Walks with the puppy is another.  Unfortunately, daily oiling of Desta’s scalp is a third. Desta has eczema on her scalp – at least that’s what the allergist says.  So may other parents report the same […]

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I was going to say “an all-inclusive update”, but I’m sure I’ll miss something. 🙂  Anyway, I expect this to be a long post by the time I’m done, and since different people check my blog for different reasons I’ll divide it into sub-headings so you can just read the parts that interest you.  The […]

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My grandmother has said that someday I should write a book about the kids and the funny things they say and do, and if I ever do half of it will be about Branwen.  Here are two of her latest: Branwen: (Upon Joel going outside to find her rubbing her bicycle with a big handful […]

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I have to get lunch, but I’ll give the very abbreviated version of an update: We finally got Desta and Eli’s birth certificates the other day and were able to send in the rest of our home study materials.  Once the formal home study is written up we can apply for grants. The van is […]

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