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Fall Update 29 Oct 2010 | 09:59 am
I'm not much of a writer. I can hardly keep up with the things that need doing around the house. We are doing well. We are moved into the new, old house and are still unpacking and getting rid of a lo...
Final Adoption Hearing 16 Jun 2010 | 12:54 pm
We had our final adoption hearing yesterday in Jacksonville. It was quite an informal process, and we are nonetheless glad we made the trip. The judge was very kind, and gave Emma a little stuffed toy...
I'm Just Not Ready For It 8 May 2010 | 12:56 pm
I'm just not ready for this. How does a mother know to wake up because she needs to wake up? That happened to me two weeks ago. I looked over at Emma's crib, and she was staring at me....from over the...
Just Another Day 19 Apr 2010 | 04:17 am
Things are not too exciting lately. The weather is warming up here in Florida, and I finally broke down and turn the air conditioner on in the late afternoon. Our temporary apartment faces west, and w...
Easter 2010 11 Apr 2010 | 09:38 am
We don't make holidays a big celebration. We try to keep things simple, and enjoy the day. We didn't race to the photo centers for fancy pictures, and we didn't participate in the community egg gather...
We Are Moving 6 Mar 2010 | 02:35 pm
We ended up purchasing a bigger house. Did I write about this before? Anyway, that is where we have focused a lot of our attention (and money, my goodness). Emma will need her own bedroom one day, and...
No Sympathy for the Weary (Emma update too) 13 Jan 2010 | 11:28 am
Conethia doesn't want to hear my daily woes (smile), so I'll just move on to talking about Emma. We are most fortunate to have a baby that sleeps through the night. She is now 4.5 months old. She doe...
Going Crazy 9 Jan 2010 | 11:30 am
I have a very active and demanding 6.5 year old, and now a 4 month old. I homeschool our very smart boy. I work with our contractor on remodeling our house so that we can put it up for sale, and try t...
Republishing Old Posts from Ukraine 4 Jan 2010 | 03:33 pm
When we signed on with an agency to adopt from Kyrgyzstan, we edited our blog and removed several posts about our unsuccessful Ukrainian adoption attempt. It feels great not to have to jump through an...
We Have Our Girl! 16 Dec 2009 | 04:48 am
We brought our baby girl home this month! She was adopted domestically, and we couldn't be happier. We didn't want to post anything earlier about throwing our hat into the domestic adoption arena beca...
