Friday, November 24, 2006
Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! We enjoyed a quiet holiday at home with Bonnie, Jesse’s mom, here to visit us. Obviously, Thanksgiving is not a Belgian holiday, so Liam went to school in the morning. It rained pretty much all day, so we laid low and just enjoyed ourselves at chez [...]
Friday, November 24, 2006
Well, Carrie guessed right with door number three. We will be submitting our paperwork to Ukraine when the start accepting dossiers again. Hopefully that will be in January.
Ukraine was one of the countries we looked at when we initially broached the idea of adoption. However, at that time the country was closed [...]
Friday, November 17, 2006
Sorry for the absence of posts — and the absence of comments on other blogs. My mother-in-law is here visiting, and my time is spent catching up with her, watching Liam get to know his Grandma again, and doing research on translators….
More hints: we are doing an independent adoption. We’ll need a [...]
Friday, November 17, 2006
catches the worm! While playing outside the other day, Liam spotted a big, fat, juicy nightcrawler on the sidewalk. I tossed it back into the molehill from whence it came, and he probably spent five minutes watching fascinatedly (is that a word) as it dug its way back into the earth.
Grandma Bonnie is [...]
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Ahhhh, God, the dreaded nightmare that is international paperwork begins again. Here I thought I was being all efficient back in August when I ordered fresh copies of all our vital records. We didn’t need brand new copies for the home study, of course, but I was naturally so sure that we’d breeze [...]
Saturday, November 11, 2006
We think we’ve come to a decision. I won’t post it here, because as soon as we do, we seem to jinx ourselves, and something springs up waving big red warning flags in front of our faces to TURN AWAY. But we’re pretty sure we’ve made a decision. This decision, mind you, [...]
Wednesday, November 8, 2006
It’s turned into an almost proper winter in the last few days here. Its been getting colder and colder. Still no good frost yet, but cold enough in the mornings that a sweater for Liam isn’t quite enough. So take a look at my adorable little boy.
Yes, the coat is one size too [...]
Wednesday, November 8, 2006
This has been a rather busy week, adoption-wise. Let’s see, in the week leading up to our home study, the week I intended to spend cleaning and organizing et al, I spent:
playing tractors and firetrucks on the floor with my son,
dog-sitting for friends (bringing the house total up to three, which is two past [...]
Saturday, November 4, 2006
The Isle of Canna is one of the Scottish Inner Hebrides. It is the westernmost of the Small Isles — 7kmX1.5km, 15 inhabitants kind of small. The isle was once owned by John Lorne Campbell; he gifted it to the National Trust for Scotland in 1981. Canna, thanks to Campbell and his wife, has one [...]
Wednesday, November 1, 2006
I want to write a beautiful, sensitive post, exploring the issues of US vs. international adoption. But the thoughts in my head are too jumbled to to be able to organize into anything fit for public consumption. So here’s a (very) brief overview of my befuddlement.
We always thought that because we lived overseas, [...]