Category: Family
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A New Bed
Before we met Jackie, we bought a convertible crib; one of those cribs that have an adjustable bed height and can be a junior bed. Well, Jackie already seems to be growing out of it, so we bought a full size twin with a proper mattress. She loves it, and says “Now I’m a Big…
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Discipline
I went to a meeting about disciplining children up to the age of 6. It sounds like a loaded topic. Because it is. The guest speaker, a mother of 5, ages between 18 and 10, shared nuggets of wisdom from the future perspective of reaping the benefits of discipline during adolescence, by starting at the…
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First Christmas
We went caroling in a village, with friends. It was cold, dark and late, but there was singing, and sweets, and little girlfriends to make memories with.
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Impromptu expedition
Some of our most easygoing new family friends, wonderful and admirable in their wisdom and self-sufficiency, invited us to tag along on Sunday to Salina Turda. New friends from Virginia Beach were in town, a connection made by their daughter who’s in Virginia Beach now with Work and Travel. As they rode in the car…
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The certificate in hand
Friday we got our actual final Certificate. Any moment now we are expecting a call… though I believe a month will pass before anything happens.
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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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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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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…