Tomorrow is Angelina’s gotcha day, the day we take her from the orphanage, the day all our lives change forever. Gulp. People have asked how I feel, how did I prep for this moment? I’m happy to tell you that I have an awesome way to prepare for this day. I’ve been watching endless youtube […]Read Post ›
Yesterday we were on the receiving end of a random act of kindness, the kind you read about in a touching buzzfeed posts before clicking on the next link to watch puppies vs. kittens. My husband had headed out early in order to drive to the city to give plasma at biolife. This is yet […]Read Post ›
Oh my best of intentions, how they swirl around me as the days pass to months and yet another month swept by without my promised pre-adoption info post. To be honest, May was the hardest month emotionally so far in this journey of orphan advocacy and hopefully soon adoption. Sweet Angelina turned 8 sometime last […]Read Post ›
So many small things build up to larger moments. Sometimes the small things ARE the large moments in disguise. Yesterday’s mail contained something extra special. A letter from a cousin, whom I haven’t seen in person for many years, arrived unexpectedly. I assumed it was a wedding invitation for her upcoming nuptials and I […]Read Post ›
I mentioned that one of the actions that sprang up from Brayden, our catalyst child, is our effort to narrate our pre-adoption process (a term I use to describe the process of preparing before actually starting the legal action of adoption) here on this blog. I’ve been absorbing tons of material, typically blogs, about people […]Read Post ›
After learning that we did not qualify for adopting Brayden, our catalyst child, we did not lose the momentum for pursuing adoption. If anything, all the flurry of research and conversation surrounding the hope for adopting him motivated us to sit down and hash out a plan. We realized that if we sat around waiting […]Read Post ›
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