Going Green, Sort Of

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Three little wet bottoms all in a row... how does your garbage grow?I have been changing diapers non-stop for the past seven years. That is a lot of Pampers. A real lot, so many that I have enough reward points to get a Porche (ok, maybe that is wishful thinking.)That is certainly too much non-biodegradeable landfill stuff. As each of my kids came along, I thought maybe I would try cloth and then Continue Reading

Peach’s Surgery

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Was postponed until next week.Kimani’s heart surgery was postponed three times... originally scheduled for July 21, it didn’t happen until Sept. 24. So I ought to be used to this. But I am not. Continue Reading

Tomorrow

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Peach is scheduled for surgery tomorrow. As far as I know, it is still on. Please be praying for her tonight and for the next couple days while she is in ICU.USCIS tells me that our I17h should be on its way to us, so it looks like our dossier will be submitted on July 16th when the government adoption office in our EE country reopens. If all goes well, we could be on a flight as soon as the end Continue Reading

The Facilitator

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Just like pregnancies, all adoptions are different. In our case we have a facilitator in Eastern Europe, instead of an OBGYN, who is handling everything for us on that end. And it is a big job. He has to review our 70 or so pages of documents that make up our dossier, get them translated, act as our attorney to submit petitions, work with agencies to arrange appointments, get drivers, translators, Continue Reading

Swing Baby!

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There is room for two more on this play structure.We will move forward toward both our girls. We will pray that Peach is ready to go when we get there. If she isn’t, we will go back for her. And someday I will post a picture of all five of them blissfully swinging away.In my fantasy, our pediatric heart surgeon decides he has always wanted to go to Eastern Europe, and operating on Peach is the Continue Reading