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Developing Our Palates

Posted in General Musings on February 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »

I’ve wanted to try out an Ethiopian recipe another adoptive mom passed along to me, but figured I needed a safe audience in addition to Nate to stage my experiment. Because my friend EJ, who claims to have lost all of her taste buds and pretty much thinks everything is great, was not around — [...]

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Could They Be The Ones?

Posted in General Musings on February 25, 2008 | 4 Comments »

Our agency posted a slide-show of all their photographs from their recent trip to Ethiopia. Each agency works with particular orphanages–and these are from those that our agency works with. So I emailed Lisa, our contact there, to ask if by any chance the children in the photographs would be ones up for adoption. (ie. [...]

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Twas the Night Before Fingerprinting …

Posted in General Musings on February 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »

And all through the hotel. [...]

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Giddy

Posted in General Musings on February 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The gestational period for an elephant is 22 months.
How does she do it? I’m not even enduring the bodily changes and I’m pretty sure that if this thing lasts much longer than a year that I am going to be at risk of picking up hobbies like crocheting or stamp collecting simply as an outlet [...]

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The Week of Breakthroughs

Posted in Progress Updates on February 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »

We’ve actually grown pretty used to pushing this pea called adoption up a mountain with our noses. Who knew that when we would finally settle into waiting — the doors would begin to swing open?
In more than one way in our lives, this week has shouted BREAKTHROUGH. I’ll spare you all the juicy details (I [...]

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Enough about Beet Juice…we have an Update!!

Posted in Progress Updates on February 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Blogging about juicing was short lived. Little did I know that on the heels of announcing the newest addition to our home, the juicer, there was an even bigger announcement on its way.
Last night we got an email from our agency stating that the Prime Minister’s office has opened a very short window of time [...]

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Beet Juice

Posted in Progress Updates, tagged , , , , on February 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Here’s where I have second thoughts about doing this blog. You see, in the first few months of our process there was lots to report and frequent banners to wave as we quickly passed by each adoption mile-marker. But now I anticipate long stretches of time where we really don’t have much to say [...]

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