Author: Violeta
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Working through some heavy stuff
We still find joy in the mundane. And these days we spent the most enjoyable quality time ever, with our nephew Luca. Board games, pizza dates, conversations, ball games, dog chases, tickles and other stories … God is gracious.
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Filip & Adina
A dear couple got married this weekend, and it was the most beautiful wedding service I have even been part of. It was a celebration of love and purity of faith. We were honored to befriend them from the moment we moved to Cluj, but like any long term connection it grew steady and detached,…
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120 days and a report
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This is the building I wandered through, knocking at multiple doors, looking to get information about adoption. My stomach was in knots, and I had a lot of pent up emotions. I left discouraged. But my feelings in this place have changed so much this year.
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A prisoner of your own wealth
We have been asked more times than we can recall “why would you move away from Silicon Valley”. You can’t understand until you’ve lived there. It is an amazing place, but it is not the ultimate place. We left because we had somewhere to be. We were pursuing financial simplicity. We were pursuing adoption in…
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Bridal shower
A reunion of young women… One spirit. We had a delightful evening with memories shared, showers of love and gifts, deserts and mingling. We reconnected with many and I left enriched in my heart. It had been a long time since our last get together.
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Same Sunday, different perspective
I woke up before sunrise and took Rufus for a run. Sunday, in this part of the world, is still noticeably quiet. Even the guard dogs in the village sleep in. Just the birds are more nosy than usual, maybe just due to the deep Sunday silence.
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It’s Sunday
Last weekend I went to Jazz in the Park and met with a friend visiting from out of town who was returning a bag of books to Carmen, “our local library”. As she pulled out of the bag the stack of books, one of them, thin and discreet, had this title: Church frustration and fulfillment…
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In the park
With girlfriends, once you convince them to get out of the house. This weekend was the street food festival, and we went out for ice-cream with two of my closest friends who have kids.
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4 girls?
As we’ve prepared to become adoptive parents in this Romanian county, with a certain law governing the entire country, but with small and big adaptations per region, per county, we’ve built up anticipation. We wanted to adopt two children at once, thinking we can multitask, two is better than one, and they’ll also have play…
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Keeping busy
“When you don’t look for work yourself, the devil will find something for you to do.” (grandparents wisdom) As we reached a point of apparent complete fulfillment, we took our time to observe it intently, and realized that financial stability, career, marriage and wanting for nothing is not enough. We wanted a challenge. We wanted…
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Aaaand we’re back!
I’ve had in the past, the feeling that I can’t quite catch up with my feelings, my inner self, my thoughts. But this trip to Dublin was crisp, in the air and in the mind. Just before hopping on the plane I repurchased the book called “Boundaries” written by two christian psychologists. A brilliant book…
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Dublin
Our first trip to Ireland, mixed with business, mostly business. But hey, we make our own schedule. We left at 6:30 am from Cluj and landed in Dublin at 1o am, after changing flights in Munich. We’re now half way into the adventure. We walked 30 miles already, got caught in the rain pretty bad,…