A Slice of Orphanage Life
August 22, 2011
Lunch time at the SWI...notice the Chinese nanny technique (and spoon size) versus the American missionary's!
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25 Gold Standard Adoption Advice and Information Sites
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It's fundraising Friday again and I thought today I would offer up some resources on adoption grant and subsidy programs. I encourage ... -
This is Dart and I’m finishing today’s post for Lori. It has been a long two days for Lori with Nina attached to her at the hip for every fl... -
I remember learning about the first Kazapalooza last year and thinking it looked like a fun time. I loved looking at the pictures of all th... -
Nina had her first visit with our family pediatrician this afternoon. It is official she is a healthy little peanut. Nina is definitely on t... -
This morning we woke up to a beautiful sunny sunny sky and almost 2 feet of the white stuff. It snowed pretty steadily from Friday afternoo... -
Starting tomorrow singles will be able to adopt children from China's Special Focus program. Children in the Special Focus Program ar... -
Vacation was great but it is nice to be home. I think one of the best parts of the whole trip was when we walked thru the door and Nina ran ... -
I have more than 20 years of parenting experience and last night was the scariest night I've ever had with any of my kids. Just after ... -
We found an envelope in Nolan’s book bag. From the school principal. Crap, this can’t be good. But what the heck can you do in 5 th grade...
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Tracking my Foundations - My focus this year is on foundations, and I've been racking my brain trying to figure out how I want to track all of these wonderful activities. A massiv...
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Wake Up Call: New Year, “Know” You - There is a very fair critique by readers that questions female writers in memoir/self help/autobiography genres over the long haul. The raised eye is in ...1 week ago
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Merry Christmas~ - A Merry December was the goal of the past couple of weeks. I have made many sourdough loaves! Delicious and nutritious~ Mimi and Logan had lots of perfor...
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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...1 month 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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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...5 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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