Hello from Hong Kong

We made it to Hong Kong safe and sound, albeit a little weary on Sunday evening. What can I say about the flight? It actually wasn’t quite as bad as I had built it up to be. Although there were a couple moments where I thought about jumping out – one when [...]

So Close!

We leave for Hong Kong on Saturday. I was so hopeful that our dossier would be in the hands of our agency before we left. Not gonna happen. We’re so close – we just lack getting our documents notarized and certified by the state. We’ve been at it for five months, [...]

More on Ethiopia

When we started this adoption process five months ago, we were clueless about so many things. We didn’t even know what countries were possibilities. After a bit of research we quickly gravitated towards Vietnam. There were so many things about this program (except that whole looming shutdown thing) that made it seem like [...]

Yesterday we made official a decision that we have been pondering and researching and discussing and praying over for the last two months. We asked our social worker to write our home study for a baby from Ethiopia. And we are so, so excited!!

Five Months

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I just realized that today marks five months from the day we contacted our first social worker to start our first home study for our first dossier. Tomorrow, we will complete our second home study with our second agency for our second dossier. Knowing myself, I would expect to be [...]

To the men in my life…

To my dad on Father’s Day:
Thank you for giving so much of yourself in order to make my life comfortable. For providing an example of hard work, generosity, and integrity. For always believing in me and telling me so. For making our family fun and always saying something outrageous to make [...]

Not much to report…

I’ve been kind of quiet on the blog lately because I don’t really think there’s anything interesting to report. A few things going on with us:

Our new home study will be complete next Friday (fingers crossed) and Lord willing we’ll be able to send our dossier to our agency two weeks from tomorrow!! I [...]

Flickr Fun

1. Dra. Meredith Grey, aquí tienes el informe…, 2. petal layers 2, 3. Millennium Station, 4. A Vibrant Glow, 5. McDreamy getting dreamy, 6. classic., 7. Oia – Santorini, 8. rose cupcakes, 9. for the Mothers of Humanity, 10. Family Portrait, 11. Love XOXO, 12. approaching banteay srei
I saw this on Zarah’s blog, and while [...]

An experiment in efficiency

I’ve never really been one to concentrate on the price of gas too much. Yes, it’s very high these days, I know. Yes, that stinks. However, I figure it does me very little good to save few cents a gallon by the time you figure in the time and energy it took [...]

I love weddings!

My sister-in-law got married this weekend. It was an absolutely lovely wedding and a very fun weekend. Here are a few of my favorite pictures. Congratulations you two!

One of Matt’s cousins drove them to the reception in his 1930 Ford Model A. They said people were honking and waving and even [...]