April 13, 2008
TODAY IS OUR SEVEN MONTH CHINA LIDVERSARY!!! So many more months to go but oh so worth the wait.
Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes silk.
- A Chinese Proverb
2 days ago
25 Gold Standard Adoption Advice and Information Sites
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I’m sitting in the airport waiting to board a flight to LaGuardia. I have a meeting in the city today and I’m going to sneak in a...
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On our last day in Kaz our team traveled an hour an a half south to the Karakastek orphanage. We only got to spend a short time there but w... -
We heard from our agency today, our dossier has been sent to the Kaz Embassy. We are so very excited. I thought we would be long past this ... -
Adoption and orphan didn’t always go together in my mind. I came to adoption because I wanted to parent another child not because I... -
There is another cool video about Shepherd's Field out this morning. A few glimpses of the Butterfly can be found by those paying close...
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Last week we learned that the 3-4 hour drive to Xingyi City was actually a 5-6 hour drive. We tried to turn the trip into an overnight but b... -
It's fundraising Friday again and I thought today I would offer up some resources on adoption grant and subsidy programs. I encourage ... -
Now that The Butterfly is living at Shepherd's Field I am getting new pictures and even video on a regular basis. Recently there were p... -
Sometimes its hard to believe the turn our lives have taken. Just a few years ago we thirty something's focused on emptying our nest an...
Blog Roll
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Values Exercise - I *love* values exercises. I use them in almost every coaching and counseling engagement because it is so powerful to identify your core motivations. Our...
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Frolicking into February~ - Looks like every post begins with sweet faces like these... the girls are so good at sending moments in their lives that bless my heart! My little loves~...
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A Different Kind of Love Story…. - You’re allowed to be included in the care you offer. After a wreck last month and a totaled out vehicle (everyone is fine), I am in the middle of car neg...3 weeks ago
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Not Sure Where to Begin? Here Are 6 Steps to Help You Start to Organize Your Life! - When you find that things are feeling out of control, that the house is a mess, that you can't get anywhere on time, and that you aren't getting anything...3 months ago
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Day trading guide : Notre guide complet pour le day trading - Le trading en ligne est devenu de plus en plus utilisé par la population mondiale. Chaque investisseur dispose d’un profil différent avec la même idée, c...3 years ago
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'OBX schoolcation' {respect for the Wrights} - *thursday, october 22, 2020* On Tuesday we arrived at the Wright Brothers National Memorial just before closing time but when we learned that our admission...
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Hannah's Trip (January 11th) - We are close to pushing off.  We are so thankful to each of you for your prayers, provision, sacrifices, and love. We had planned to travel with that R...
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Home Sweet Home! by The Pioneer Woman - I hope you’ve all been doing well, staying safe, and (hopefully) getting back to some glimpse of normal. I know normal is a relative term, and I swear, I s...5 years ago
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Daftar Aspek Penting dalam Edukasi Etika Adopsi Internasional - Perpindahan pengasuhan anak yang melewati batas-batas kedaulatan negara memerlukan pengawasan yang jauh lebih ketat dibandingkan dengan proses domestik. Me...6 years ago
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Five Questions about the Duan Family Trafficking - The recent interest in the Hunan scandal, and the Duan family specifically, spurred by their being featured in Nanfu Wang's "One Child Nation," prompted so...6 years ago
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Christmas Party - #1! - A company Christmas party - our first as business owners, is a good reason to dust off the old blog, huh? We really have some amazing employees. It's bee...
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You Can Take the Girl Out of the Funny Farm.... - You can take the girl out of the funny farm, but it seems you can't take the funny farm out of the girl. A couple of years ago, I posted that I was closing...
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Three Tiny Tables - The Grand Opening has come and gone, and through the utter exhaustion we are all feeling there is a collective understanding that something very, very s...
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Dumping a Social Worker's Cards on the Table: Adoption Cannot Solve Abortion - "Everyone has strengths within them that can create solutions. They just need some organizing." I repeat this phrase often to my students. I repeat it in...
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Hiking - The weather has cooled down now and I am so looking forward to more hikes. We haven't really gotten back to hiking regularly since the super typhoon that ...7 years ago
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~Three Weeks Til Kitty~ - John David and I are going to Atlanta in three weeks to pick up our new kitten. He has remained real...I did not buy a beanie baby scam kitten! His ten we...
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Azure IaaS vs PaaS: Find the Right Service to Reduce Costs - In the world of cloud computing, people often get confused with the two services – IaaS (Information as a Service) or Paas (Platform as a Service). The f...7 years ago
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CLAIRVOYANT HEALING, COLON CLEANSING, AND HYPNOTHERAPY: THE WEIRDEST THINGS WE’VE DONE IN THE NAME OF HEALTH | SELFIE EPISODE 45 - Sarah saw a hypnotherapist. Kristen went to a faith healer. One of us has had her colon roto-routed. We are talking about the most wacky and woo-woo thin...7 years ago
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Seattle Day 4 7/09/2018 - Today was zoo day. It was a nice and beautiful day again. We spent about 7 hours there and then came home as some people feet and hips were getting sore....
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Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!7 years ago
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Remembering 2017 - We were driving in the car a few weeks ago and Sadie piped up, "Man. 2017 feels like a scooter to the ankle." I think I said something like, "Amen, siste...
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October 2017 - Slowly October starts to feel and look like fall...slowly. Sometimes summer lingers and I continue to sweat when strolling casually to the mailbox. However...
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Home - Since its establishing in 1916, The PGA of America has kept up a twofold mission: to build up and raise the measures of the calling and to develop intrigu...
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