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Today I am finally sharing our international adoption story of how we were led to adoption from South Africa. Our journey included a lot of brick walls, like an unethical agency, countries closing and more but it resulted in the sweetest boy being added to our family and it was worth all the effort, tears and prayers!
You can find our adoption timeline here.
If you asked me to tell you about one thing that I’ve learned from our adoption process so far, today I would tell you that there are some very generous people in this world. A few months ago I was taking photos for a sweet family and as I was preparing to leave I was…
In the midst of this busy week we reached two months on the adoption referral waitlist. Though from my understanding we really haven’t moved up on the list at all from last month which is a bit of a bummer (do people still use the word bummer?). Despite the news of not moving up on the…
I want so badly for that image above to be one of Ephraim (or one of Rae & him) but I have to wait until we pass court for that. But thankfully, that isn’t too far away! Robyn, our social worker in South Africa got back last week and was able to set up our…
A few more random photos of our time here in South Africa . . . watching the monkeys as they climb down from the roof and jump into the trees hello I know a lot of people expect South Africa to be more like dirt roads and chaos on the roads but in the city…
I’m having a hard time knowing we’ve been home for two weeks already and Ephraim has been a part of our lives for almost two months. In some ways it seems like the time is going by so quickly and yet life with him feels so normal. He fits into our family. He was meant…
Today we start our journey back home! I still have lots to share from our time here and I hope to do that in the coming weeks after Christmas. (It’s so hard to believe it’s almost Christmas! We’ve been focused on other stuff for so long we’ve pretty much missed the entire Christmas season.) Anyway,…
