Nearness

For the last few weeks I’ve not been picturing my girls or wondering their whereabouts as much as I was before, if at all. Some of it may be my subconscious defenses, as our adoption hangs in suspension (along with many other details in our life). As I type a picture pops into my head [...]

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Time to get an Airedale

Because I have an uncanny ability to say inappropriate things at just the wrong time, I have a lot of grace for others who have this Tourets-like behavior. Today, for example, in an effort to make conversation with the Delta employee who was holding the plane so Nate could get food I said to her, [...]

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The Community of Adoptive Parents

Quick update: no word from our agency about the license. We don’t expected to hear from them for another week or two (at least) regarding this, however, many of you have been asking so we wanted to keep you up to speed. I’ve put myself on a fast from checking in with them on progress [...]

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Lessons from the Slopes

At the same time that we received the news about our agency’s pending license, we were in Colorado with two dear friends on a long-planned ski trip. Obviously the news colored our experience there, however, neither one of us wanted to let it so discourage us that we lost all perspective. (OK, let’s be honest [...]

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A Temporary Setback…

We’re currently in Colorado on a long-planned trip with some friends, and we haven’t been online much, but we did receive news today that we’d like to share.
We felt pretty strongly about going with our agency for a variety of reasons, and still feel that we need to “stay the course” with them. It’s an [...]

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And The Pendulum Swings … Musings of A Temporarily Barren Woman

Warning: Lengthy musings ahead
This blog vacillates, for me, between being a bulletin board of progress updates on our adoption for friends, family and others in the adoption world to being my version of artistic expression only to be appreciated most by me, Nate and one day our girls – as it’s so very specific [...]

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We’ve Only Just Begun

I received an email from a new friend from the adoption-world who essentially said don’t celebrate too much, this is really just the beginning of all the paperwork. Other than immersing ourselves in conversation, study and prayer on parenting, we haven’t discussed much what the post-adoption work will entail. I mean, we’ve picked out the [...]

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Pictures of My “Girth”

I just got back from the fed ex box, dropping off the very last of our dossier paperwork! From here, Carolina Hope sends each piece off to be authenticated at the state level and then, when coupled with our completed home study, it’s translated into Amharic and sent to the Ethiopian government. I realize this [...]

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Nesting … and Waiting

For all those times I wonder if I have any nurturing, maternal, or uniquely feminine drive in me there are equally as many times — recently — where I find myself doing odd, very unlike-Sara, type things. Just yesterday I had a random (but quickly passing) thought that I might even get into scrap-booking. AGH!
I [...]

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Beginning of a continuing conversation about race and adoption

I recently discovered that Ethiopian children have brown skin. Mine is more of a “peachy” color … is this a problem?
Seriously, the fact that we are adopting across cultural and racial lines is not something we take lightly. On the other hand, it doesn’t consume us either (though it is admittedly easier for white [...]

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Fun With the Noyeseses

On our way home from Thanksgiving with the Hagerty family last weekend, Sara and I stopped in to see the twin sister of one of our best friends (Mara Martin). Mindy(Mara’s sister) and Ian Noyes adopted two little ones from Ethiopia in July of this year, and we wanted to meet the kids, as well [...]

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Why the rush, really?

I’ve been thinking lately about all this rush to get our paperwork completed. On the heels of several conversations with new moms letting me in on how dramatically their lives have changed, I might expect that I’d be dragging my feet a bit so as to give myself a few more slow Saturday mornings or [...]

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