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Category: adoption
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I’ve noticed I’ve picked up some new readers lately (hey, how are you? thanks for coming!) and I thought I’d update my About page a bit to explain all the major players y’all get to read about. So go check it out. In other news, Bloglines is eating my blogroll. I used to have like…
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So yesterday we went for our fingerprint appointment. For those of you who don’t know, the Department of Homeland Security or Immigration or maybe the combination of the two, who knows, they make you get fingerprinted before you can bring a foreigner into the country as your child. And your fingerprints are only valid for…
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Bring April birthdays. Jeesh this first week of April is chock full. I’m gonna try my hand at cake decorating and make one for my sister Morgan’s birthday party this weekend. Oh, and if you enlarge the pic you’ll notice that we have our appointment for fingerprints! Woohoo! Progress! April 12th. 8am which means we…
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Y’all are so great I swear. I thank you thank you thank you for all of your supportive comments & emails. I know it will happen one day for us, this whole parenting thing, it just seems so far away sometimes. By the way, the 2nd country we had chosen was Guatemala. Guat seemed so…
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When CSP & I decided to adopt I started talking about it on my blog and that drew some new readers from the adoption world. BYH started to appear on blogrolls across Blogistan under “China Adoption” or “Paperchasing” etc. Then we slowed down a bit to figure out the finance end of things a little…
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Today we had a play date at my sister’s house. We met up with a mom who adopted her son from Guatemala. He’s 2 years old and just as cute as can be. He got along great with my nephews and his mom showed us all her pictures from their trip to Guatemala. You can…
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I’m going to climb up on my soapbox for a minute just so I can rant a little and wave my fists around. It won’t change anything, but it will make me feel better. The picture above is of my Effexor XR. I take them for anxiety. And since China changed their regulations, the simple…
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I realized that I haven’t explained yet if we’re still adopting from China. As our social worker told us “That option is closed to you now”. So no, we’re not adopting from China. It feels like a break up. We’ve been in love with China and our Chinese baby for 2 years. We’ve collected books,…
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That my friends, is our i600A form heading off to the USCISSCIS whatever, office on Monday. It arrived safe and sound on Tuesday. I was so nervous sending it off with the check. And I mail a bigger check than that every month for our mortgage. But this check made me sweat. I wanted to…
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Thank you for all of your good luck vibes! Our SW visit was nice and laid back. SW even brought her adorable little girl who was adopted from China. She’s 2 now and was so sweet. By the end of the 2 hour visit she was climbing all over me, shoes and socks strewn about…
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