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Encyclopedia of Me: A

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A
is for Adoption
Right now, the only word that comes to mind for the letter A has to be adoption. It’s a pretty consuming topic around these parts. We think often about our baby that will someday join our family, and try to wait patiently for the Lord’s timing. I feel like everywhere we go we [...]

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An Adoption Story

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Did you know that I have a sister-in-law whose family is amidst the paper pregnancy of adoption right now, too? They are adopting their second Korean child (and also have a biological son).
Stacey just posted a little teaser of her story of adopting Reuben from Korea. You can read it here and be sure to [...]

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All I Want For My Birthday is Our Baby

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I’ve been updating and adding to my wish list lately. Because soon, I’ll be 29 (A couple of months ago, I honestly had to stop and think whether I was turning 30 this year or not. It took a minute to remember I wasn’t. One more year in my 20s!).
I think having a winter birthday [...]

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Compassion for Haiti

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com⋅pas⋅sion
a feeling of deep sympathy and sorrow for another who is stricken by misfortune, accompanied by a strong desire to alleviate the suffering.
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That’s exactly what I’m feeling for the people of Haiti right now.
I feel sorrow, with the desire to somehow help alleviate their suffering.
My heart is burdened for the country and its people and [...]

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Up-and-Running Adoption Fundraisers

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Update: We are meeting with our agency director on Monday to turn in our family portfolio copies and to wrap up loose ends and make sure we’re all on the same page. We’ll also be meeting the other social worker that we’ll be in contact with from now on. Making more progress!
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Adoption Update for December 3, 2009

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Tonight is our last home study meeting to finish our interview questions and get our home inspected. I’ve been tiding up and getting ready in accordance with the crazy list we have to comply with. Most of it is pretty simple (like having a fire extinguisher and first aid kit) but we did have to [...]

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Some Thoughts on Adoption

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I just found out that November was National Adoption Month. I probably didn’t know before because my heart wasn’t ever really opened to the need until recently. I find it all the more exciting for us and our adoption to really be getting going this month; we meet with our social worker tonight for the [...]

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Praise For the Rough Road

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My great Genesis study at CBS is teaching me much more than I expected. Last week we studied chapters 12 and 13 and our lecture was about the rough roads we sometimes travel on. Sometimes they are unexpected detours, but sometimes God ordains a rough road for us. I loved what our teaching director said,
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A Journey of Hope, Part 4

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You can catch up on our adoption journey by reading Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.
Where We’re At
The last couple months we’ve been filling out paperwork and running errands like crazy. This week we are finally coming to the end of this part of the adoption process, which you could call the first trimester [...]

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A Journey of Hope, Part 3

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You can catch up by reading Part 1 and Part 2.
“holding” one of her favorite baby friends
So, this is the really cool part.
Despite everything, we still had hopes for a bigger family. We always had said we wanted three or four kids, and the older Chiquita grows the more we desire a sibling for her. [...]

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