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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.
November 17th was court day. We got to the home early and got to meet Tracy (the Newcastle social worker). Then the workers all said their goodbyes. One of them really teared up when she said goodbye to Ephraim, he’s been there since he came out of the hospital at 2 months old and you…
This is my second post in my Supporting Adoptive Families series, you can check out the other posts from the series: Supporting Adoptive Families – After the Announcement Supporting Adoptive Families – After the Airport You’ve been supportive after the adoption announcement, you’ve stuck by their sides while they went through the antagonizing wait, and now they…
I am expecting this week to be a little (or a LOT) crazier than normal so I thought I would start it out by sharing a post by Jen Hatmaker. If you have never read one of her books you really should (which reminds me, I’ve got to borrow 7 to you Shawna!), or you can…
Just quickly popping in to tell you that it’s official! Ephraim is our son! Lots more posts to come. 🙂
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,…
I really doubt Kenny Rogers was thinking about adoption when he sang those words but these lyrics have been running through my head the last few days. This week we hit another little pothole which means it might take us even longer to get our contracts to our agency and after talking to our social…
