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Surrender

Posted in General Musings on May 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Life’s “bitter-to-sweet” circumstances over the past years have caused a shift in my thinking. My list of expectations for life and goals for my future is slowly … diminishing. This is not for lack of dreaming and hoping — instead it’s because I’m coming to find that this list isn’t mine to compose.
(As I type, [...]

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A Time For Everything

Posted in General Musings, tagged , , , on May 26, 2008 | 5 Comments »

My freshman year of high school (prepare yourself) I kept a list of what I wore everyday to ensure I didn’t wear the same outfit twice in one month. Fortunately that petered after about a year, (yes, I did this for an entire year) however, the same propulsion to keep order in my life is [...]

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Orphans

Posted in General Musings on May 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I can’t shake this growing ache in my heart for them–not just “mine”, but all of them. It’s like a heartbeat that just keeps getting louder. Any of you who know me can attest to the fact that this is God. There’s no conjuring going on here.
Tonight a friend shared this story about his friend [...]

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Our New Favorite Adoption Video

Posted in General Musings on May 19, 2008 | 3 Comments »

We only do this occasionally…well, if by occasionally you mean weekly, but we again struck gold with our latest video find. Enjoy!

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A Father’s Look

Posted in General Musings on May 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

This morning Nate said to me, “I think when we get our girls I’m just going to spend a lot of time staring at them …” Now, being one who has a chronic staring problem, I know he’s not referring to the can’t-quite-figure-out-who-those-people-are-so-look-at-them-until-you-learn-more stare. It’s the daddy gaze he’s talking about.
You know it. It’s the [...]

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Blast From The Past

Posted in General Musings on May 16, 2008 | 3 Comments »

One thing Sara and I are trying to avoid with this thing is to get all “bloggy”. By that, I mean that, frankly, you’re not that interested in what we ate for breakfast (well MOST of you, at least)!
But I can’t resist sharing my recent Facebook “brush with the past”: An old friend from college [...]

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My Water Broke!

Posted in General Musings on May 13, 2008 | 4 Comments »

We’re officially in “labor”!
Although I, sadly, have no pictures to show for the day’s festivities, our approval did arrive in the mail and we quickly had it notarized and sent off to Carolina Hope. Thanks to Fed Ex they should be moving our “bundle” of paperwork tomorrow to the next phase, the US [...]

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Will God Heal Me?

Posted in General Musings, tagged , , , on May 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Quick update: No paperwork yet. After a few phone calls to our growing constituency of adoption advocates, I discovered that having been approved by USCIS doesn’t exactly put us over the hump yet. The key is getting that precious piece of paperwork from “Sally government employee”’s outbox into the mail. There is no telling how [...]

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We’ve Been APPROVED!

Posted in Progress Updates on May 12, 2008 | 5 Comments »

I just received a phone call from Senator John Warner’s office, as we had solicited their help in pushing our paperwork through. The sweet messenger on the other end told me that YES, in fact, we had been approved by USCIS on May 8th and that our approval notice was en route.
Thank you, Jesus.
Oh my [...]

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Did I Just Do That?

Posted in General Musings on May 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »

I’ve become that girl. Back in the fall as I was reading Ethiopian adoption blogs I came across this strange phenomenon where adoptive parents were obsessively tracking their immigration paperwork. I laughed, thinking, oh those poor people. Clearly they have issues with control — or something of the sort — that are forcing them to [...]

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I Think This Qualifies As An Update

Posted in Progress Updates on May 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »

After contacting everyone shy of Condi Rice to help us move our immigration paperwork through the pipeline, we have finally heard word back from the USCIS office. A brief, some-might-call terse email from our contact there stated: “Your application is under review tomorrow and you will hear from us within the week.”
I’m not going to [...]

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A Non-Update Update

Posted in General Musings on May 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Hey folks–Nate here. My approach to writing on this blog has quickly developed into “Get out of the way, and let my wife drop beauty all over the place”, but I thought I would risk the comparison and chime in here.
We’re still waiting on the I-171H approval from the USCIS. For those that are not [...]

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