Today is the final day of NaBloPoMo. Thank you for sticking out and keeping my visit stats high. This month has made me rethink my goal to write a book. I seem to have plenty of thoughts, but I get board with myself when I write them down daily. Blah. Who want [...]
Archive for November, 2007
Coffee revisted.
Posted in Ethiopian News & Culture on November 30, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Can’t break it now.
Posted in Idle Musings on November 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
So I have 2 days of NaBLoPoMo left. I almost just blew it. That would be like running a marathon and pulling out at mile 26 when there is just a downhill .2 left to go.
I had a great post planned for today, but that was before a bottle of Prosecco, a visit to the [...]
Wordless Wednesday #3 – Lalibela, the cradle of Ethiopian Christianity carved in stone
Posted in Wordless Wednesday on November 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
To read the article that goes along with this photo, click here. The slide show / multimedia function shows how beautiful the country is.
Paperwork be gone.
Posted in Adoption Option on November 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Our final paperwork (for now) went into the mail today. It was a fabulous feeling both to have it in the mail and also that I have become generally all right with writing checks for money we have access to but not in our actual possession. I had not totaled up the entire amount, and [...]
Q & A – Will you travel to pick up the baby? If so, how long will you stay?
Posted in Adoption Option on November 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
We do plan on traveling to Addis Ababa to receive our son or daughter. Five days to a week of our stay is rather structured, but we may travel a few days earlier to recover from jet lag & see some sites in the city. If we travel early, we will most likely spend [...]
Q & A – How long does the process take?
Posted in Adoption Option on November 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
With adoption, there are many steps that must be completed before we can progress to the next possibly time consuming stage. Currently we are in the waiting stage, which is currently estimated at 5 -7 months. In this stage we are waiting to get a referral of a child. If we accept the child referral, [...]
Q & A – Why do you refer to yourself as Enat & Abbot
Posted in Adoption Option on November 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
When blogging we chose pseudonyms for ourselves. The names we chose are mother (enat) & father (abbot) in Amharic. I know may of you know our real life names, but for the sake of maintaining some degree of privacy, we don’t refer to ourselves by name. Sometimes you will see me refer to Abbot as [...]
General Blog info
Posted in Uncategorized on November 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
So, you will notice a new little page up above titled FAQ’s. This is where all the links reside to the Q & A topics I posted a few days ago. The topics have not been completed yet, but since I have 5 -7 months before referral, I can take my sweet time.
Another note, I [...]
The joy of a referral.
Posted in Adoption Option on November 23, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The day before Thanksgiving a blog friend got a referral. I cannot begin to express how happy I am for her.
In my year and a half of active blogging I have heard and congratulated many fellow bloggers on their referrals. For some reason this feels different. Perhaps it is because we are adopting [...]
The meaning of Thanksgiving
Posted in Idle Musings on November 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
As I read the paper this morning, the following paragraph by an obviously very wise man struck me:
Specialist Goussev became a United States citizen this month. He said he understood what this American holiday meant. “Thanksgiving is to share with other people, and not expecting anything in return,” he said.
I hope you enjoyed a day [...]
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