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Ethiopian Adoption – Part 1

April 25, 2011 Adoption

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The next several posts to come are the emails I wrote to family and friends while we were on our trip to Ethiopia in March 2011. Pictures are now added. March 26, 2011 Dear Family and Friends, These emails are going to serve as a journal of this trip to Ethiopia. Im sending this to [...]

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Ethiopian Adoption – Faith is the Substance

April 24, 2011 Adoption

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My dear daddy died in May 2005. He had cancer. Sometime during that next year I had a dream about him. He was dead in the dream but he had come back to talk to me. We were standing in the driveway of the house I live in now (my parent’s old house) and he [...]

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Ethiopian Adoption – How it all started

April 11, 2011 Adoption

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Update: I wrote this about 20 months ago, but just couldn’t publish it until we got a lot closer to fruition. We are very close now. So here is the beginning of this new story about the new life of a little girl. August 25, 2009 My husband and I just made a very [...]

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Stop Running Around & Stay Home

April 10, 2011 God Time

Stress. Why are we stressed? I don’t like it and I don’t want it. There. I have had so many women, homeschooling and not, talk about this subject over the years, that I am compelled to discuss it in a little more depth. We are all attempting to do something (raise a family) that has [...]

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Adoption Journal – Part 17 (Finale) – Russia 2007

February 16, 2011 Adoption

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Home. Enid, Oklahoma USA Sept 8, 2007 7:30pm We are home. Thank you God. I have to say that God led us this entire trip. Everything we did, was smooth. Every process, every document, every person we dealt with, every thing that we needed – it was all done with ease, expediency, and peacefulness. I [...]

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Adoption Journal – Part 16 – Russia 2007

February 15, 2011 Adoption

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Wed Sept 5th 7:30pm We leave the hotel tomorrow morning at 9:30am. Our flight leaves at 1pm. I guess it is a good hour to the airport. We still have some to pack. We will be in Wichita Thursday night and may spend the night and come back to Enid early Friday morning. Today we [...]

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Adoption Journal – Part 15 – Russia 2007

February 14, 2011 Adoption

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Tue. Sept 4, 2007, 7:30pm After Luke’s nap we got it all together and met our driver downstairs at the hotel. He drove us to the US Embassy. It was a beautiful old Russian building. Sort of mustard color. 4-5 stories and very wide. Inside it was pretty sterile and white with 2-story ceilings. Nothing [...]

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Adoption Journal – Part 14 – Russia 2007

February 13, 2011 Adoption

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We used this for our baby announcement picture. Sept. 4, 2007 Well, Im back at my dingy little internet cafe, but I actually kind of like it. Yesterday I paid 40 rubles (that would be about $1.65) for a hard stool to sit on. Today I paid 50 rubles ($2) and I get a comfy [...]

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Adoption Journal – Part 13 – Russia 2007

February 12, 2011 Adoption

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In an effort to finish getting this journal onto the website, I’m going to dispense with pictures for now. We have a new adoption journey to start writing about! Sunday, Sept 2, 10:30am Well, yesterday Luke slept 3 hours in the morning and 3 hours in the afternoon. I think he is making up for [...]

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Adoption Journal – Part 12 – Russia 2007

February 11, 2011 Adoption

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Matt in our room. A nice room. August 30, 2007 Moscow 9:40pm. Back in the room we had bread, cheese, salami and wine for dinner. Ilyusha had oatmeal cereal, tagliatelle cream pasta with broccoli (Russian baby food) and apple-mango with curd cheese. Mmm. Yummy. He eats well. I’m sitting here at the desk looking out [...]

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Russia Journal – Part 11 – 2007

December 21, 2010 Adoption

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Moscow Thursday, August 30th, 2007 Right now it is almost 5pm and Ilya, Ilyusha, Lutia, Luke (we call him all of these things at this point) and I are sitting in our hotel room in Moscow. Matt and Emma went for a walk. The Last 36 hours Yesterday (Wed.) morning, Andrei came by for us [...]

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Nutrimill Giveaway from Pleasant Hill Grain!

November 16, 2010 Home Management

Fresh hard white winter wheat berries straight from the farm. Pleasant Hill Grain has offered to let me give away one of their most popular products, the Nutrimill grain mill! That is very exciting. I’ve used mine for almost 2 years now and I STILL love it! If you want a chance to win this, [...]

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Fruit of Their Labor

October 11, 2010 Home Education

Hello! This is Emma. Mom has been very busy lately, so here’s something to read. For writing class I had to rewrite that old fable, “The Farmer and his Sons”. Here is the finished product. Hope you like it. Fruit of Their Labor Old Jethro, the farmer, was surprisingly stricken by a bad case of [...]

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What We Bought At The HomeSchool Conference 2010

June 20, 2010 Home Education

I can not believe my oldest is ready for Algebra. This is Saxon Algebra 1/2. The class before highschool Algebra 1. We love Saxon for Emma. Here is a link to a post I did that goes a little more in depth on Saxon Math and why we like it. And here is Singapore Math. [...]

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Money & Children – How it Works At Our House

April 27, 2010 Home Management

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To Give Money Or Not To Give Money It took me a number of years to decide whether we should give our children a regular allowance or not. Should we just expect their daily help and then maybe give them money for extra jobs? Would a regular allowance, whether they were obedient or not in doing [...]

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