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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…
Tomorrow marks five years since a South African judge ruled in favor of Ephraim joining our family. I cannot believe it has been five years already! That chubby eighteen month old has grown into a hilarious six and a half year old. When we first got our referral for him one of the words they…
On the weekend Jared and I got to go on a little road trip down to Regina. We had a meeting with the director of our adoption agency (and his wife) while they were in western Canada. It was a six hour round trip for a meeting that lasted about three hours. While I’ve learned…
We recently passed the nine month mark of Ephraim’s adoption, what a whirlwind these past months have been! (Ha, apparently a whirlwind because we are actually closer to the ten month mark by the time I actually got around to posting this.) To be honest, I wasn’t prepared for the amount of time we’d spend dealing…
This Sunday marks six months of Ephraim being a Klassen! It’s crazy to think that six months ago we were arriving in South Africa and hadn’t even met him yet and now it’s like he’s been a part of our family forever. Ephraim has been adjusting so well. If you talk to anyone about adoption for…
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…
