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May 11, 2011  Noon We are all 5, Matthew, Emma and Meg (our daughters 13 and 10,) my mother and I, in our seats on Ethiopian Airlines about to depart Washington DC straight, nonstop, to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.  A 13 hour flight. From Oklahoma City you must do a 16 hour layover to connect to [...]

Friday, April 1, 2011  9pm  Addis Ababa Airport Right now we are sitting on the floor in the gate area where our plane will take off in about an hour. This morning we had our usual breakfast with various other adoptive parents.  We have an omelet every day with cheese and veggies.  There is a [...]

March 30, 2011  Wednesday  10:30pm So this morning the big decision was do I wear mascara or not? Am I going to cry during or after court, or not?  I did in Russia, but I think maybe a big part of that was court was very stressful there.  It was probably around 45 minutes with [...]

March 29, 2011  4pm So.  Yesterday  we left off after our meeting with Tarikua, the birth mother.  Tarikua means my history or my story.  Jonas tells us people will name their children something that means something about what is going on in that mothers life at that time.  Very similar to the way the names [...]

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 [...]