Adoption

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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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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Adoption Journal – Part 10 – Russia 2007

April 16, 2010 Adoption

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This is my favorite picture of Matt in Russia. Perplexed by the menu. Tuesday night, August 28th, 2007 Andrei came by at 6pm tonight. He gave us Ilya’s new Russian passport with his new name on it in Russian. Ilya Neyl Devis. I guess that is how they spell it in Russia. That was exciting. [...]

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Adoption Journal – Part 9 – Russia 2007 – The Trial

January 23, 2010 Adoption

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Exterior of the Russian Courthouse Dear Friends and Family, Thanks so much for the emails. It is comforting to stay connected like this when on the other side of the world. Sleep Is Quite Difficult Last night we were all tired early. No one took a nap. Matt went to sleep about 7:30pm and Emma [...]

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Adoption Journal – Part 8 – Russia 2007

December 23, 2009 Adoption

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The view out the window of Ilya’s (Luke’s) room August 27, 2007 The PreTrial All is going well. Yesterday Matt napped while Emma and I had lunch in the snack bar in the hotel. $20 for a small bowl of soup, 2 pieces of bread (they charge for each piece,) a side of mashed potatoes, a small juice [...]

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Russia – Trip 2 – Adoption Journal Part 6

June 19, 2009 Adoption

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Our hotel room in Moscow. It was quite nice and the only option left as Moscow hotels are always booked. On our 2nd trip to Russia for our court date and to bring home 13-month-old Luke, our newest addition, I found internet cafes in Moscow and Stavropol. I regularly sent emails back to our friends [...]

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The Turning Point – Adoption Journal Part 5

May 22, 2009 Adoption

Crib room in orphanage

We flew back to Moscow from Izhevsk and arrived in the evening. The next day we had about 8 hours to sight-see before we flew south to Stavropol to meet Ilya. (Luke 10 months old) This is Matt in front of the subway entrance. We need this break. We are emotionally spent right now. To [...]

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Adoption Journal Part 4

May 1, 2009 Adoption

Moscow, Russia June 2, 2007 We Flew To Moscow I was somewhat incredulous that we were flying all the way to the other side of the world to adopt a child, since we had many irons in the fire in the United States. Adopting a baby from our own hometown would have been just fine [...]

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Adoption Journal Part 3

April 12, 2009 Adoption

Luke in the playpen at the orphanage

Finally last February 2007, (16 months since we’d started our homestudy) we got frustrated that the adoption was taking so long. After much thinking and talking we decided to switch countries to Ethiopia. They had just opened up adoptions there in the last year or two and the process was comparatively short. Skin Color, Schmin [...]

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Adoption Journal Part 2

March 26, 2009 Adoption

Mom and Luke the first time we met

Meeting Luke in the orphanage. Stavropol, Russia. Another Baby So, about a year after Henry (our 3rd) was born, we knew we wanted another child. At the same time, the idea of letting God plan our children (i.e. when and if we would have more) was taking hold in me. I mean if I’m going [...]

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