Now that we’re a couple months into our second adoption process, I can say that not all agencies are created equal. In our case, I can’t qualify one as better than the other…yet. They’re just different. Our first agency has been around for 60 plus years. They’ve been doing international adoptions for over 30 years. […]
Category Archives: Our Adoption Adventure
{#32} Know a Notary
*****PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT***** There is a giveaway going on until midnight. Don’t forget to enter. ******************************************* You’d think since we’ve adopted before that we wouldn’t be daunted by our second paper chase, right? Wrong. Korea’s process is drastically different than most other international programs because the family does not adopt in-country. Instead the trip is pretty […]
All roads lead to Ethiopia
Road #1: Derek’s Calendar all started when our friend, Derek, served for a couple years at MTW’s AIDS project in Addis Ababa. Between book club and our Global Outreach [GO] Team at church, we see a lot of Derek and he still has a lot of Ethiopia connections. Road #2: The president of the non-profit […]
2 Years Home, Yesterday
I totally meant to post about Ty’s Airplane Day yesterday. You know, on his actual Airplane Day. But I didn’t. Bad Mommy. I considered pre-dating a post so when I looked back I would think I had been on the ball. But I didn’t. So yesterday, 2 years ago, Ty took his first steps onto […]
Awesome, Ty!
Last fall, I was really torn between putting Ty in preschool and keeping him home an extra year to make sure we were setting him up to succeed whenever he entered the world of structured, group settings. Then I found this fabulous program that was a 3-hour-drop off (major points) AND half preschool-half gymnastics (remember […]
Help Wanted
It seems the blog has seemed a little neglected lately if you take away all the adoption posts. A lot of my hours have been spent helping America World Adoption Agency (AWAA) coordinate a brand new Ethiopian orphan hosting program called Welcoming Angels. Backstory: Two years ago (or so), Patrick and I envisioned our church getting […]
[dih-lish-uhs]
Ty just said, “Wow, this is really delicious!” If you’ve ever had a language or speech delayed child, you know how delicious those words are to my ears 🙂
Who really benefits from adoption?
As National Adoption Month comes to a close, I thought I’d squeak in one last post on adoption. Not that I won’t blog about adoption ever again, because I will. I just won’t be able to do it during National Adoption Month for another year. If you know an adoptive family well, you know that […]