Category: Posts
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2014 Chinese New Year
Xin nian kuai le! Chinese New Year falls on Friday, January 31st this year. We are having some new friends over for dinner to celebrate and will serve them some of our favorite Chinese entrees. These are tried and true recipes that are staples in our culinary repertoire. (see recipes below) Moo Goo Gai Pan…
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While You Wait
When it comes to adoption, Tom Petty said it best: “The waaaaaaaiting is the hardest part.” Preach it, Tommy. First, it’s the waiting for approval to adopt. Then, the wait for a referral [child match]. Later, you wait (staring at a photograph) to travel. Many adoptive parents ask the question, “What should I do to…
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Chickens & Eggs
The updates we have received on Little Brother since our referral have been surprisingly informative; unusually so, according to my adoptive-mom-friends. Maybe it’s a China thing? Most of my closest friends have adopted (or are adopting) from African nations, and every country differs greatly as far as their adoption process, in general. From who qualifies to…
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A Line in the Sand
An adoptive-mom-friend reached out to me this week, expressing her frustration and despair from an extended family that is largely unsupportive of her family’s impending adoption. She had picked up on statements I’ve made on the blog (here and here) indicating that we have similar haters criticism in the periphery of our lives, and was seeking…
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Disclosure
If there’s one thing that has been ingrained in me from an active eleven year real estate career– it’s disclosure. We Realtors impress it upon our clients ad nauseam: Disclose, disclose, disclose. Got a fogged vinyl window? Disclose it. Roof leaked once ten years ago before you patched it? Disclose it. Suspect your siding is of the Louisiana…
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Happy
Yesterday we received an update and new photos of our Little Guy from his orphanage in China. Did you notice his cute little jumper? Did you read what it says? Presumably, his caretakers who dressed him have no clue what it reads. (Much like us Americans who sport Chinese/Japanese characters without any idea of their…
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Auld Lang Syne
Happy New Year! 2013 has been an exciting one, but we are eagerly looking ahead to what 2014 will hold– most notably, bringing home Little Brother! The following is a glance back at our year in blog posts, we are grateful for what the Lord has done: January – By the first of last year…
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Adventure Time
What’s a family of Montanans to do when it’s too icy to go sledding with your new Christmas sleds, too warm to go ice skating with your new skates, and too snowy to put up your new trampoline from Grandpa & Grandma? Impromptu Christmas road trip! That’s just what we did. After a tranquil day…
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Raising Cheerful Givers, part deux
I’m picking up where we left off with our family service projects that we completed as part of our advent countdown for the Season of Giving: 31 Days of Spreading Joy blog-hop. Here is how our girls have continued to spread cheer for the days leading up to Christmas: Dec. 10th – Deliver cat/dog treats…
