I was thinking earlier today that if the adoption experience was equal to the birthing experience, I’d have delivered four or five babies by the time this is all over. I don’t mean months-wise (although…9 x 4 = 36 and we ARE into our third year of the process) but I mean in regard to… Continue reading Labors of Love
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Travelogue: Day Five – Road Trip
The next day in Uganda started early. I was feeling somewhat better, so I went down to to breakfast for the first time since arriving at the Apricot Guesthouse. And it would be the last time there, because we were leaving for Jinja that day. As you can see from the pic, I stuck to… Continue reading Travelogue: Day Five – Road Trip
Passport Party
Oh yeah, we’re rocking a Passport Party over here today! I think this might just be the first thing throughout this adoption process that’s happened at the time it was promised, but our Ugandan Pearl has a passport!!! Honestly, I don’t know how to act. Having something happen on-time in a Ugandan adoption is just… Continue reading Passport Party
Travelogue: Day Five — The Orphanage
The road was a narrow strip of rusty red clay that dropped sharply into deep ditches littered with trash. Chickens strutted lazily across the dirt while a few goats slept in the sunshine atop roadside beds of tall grass. It didn’t seem like the row of stucco storefronts quite belonged there. In Georgia, you’d see… Continue reading Travelogue: Day Five — The Orphanage
Travelogue: Day Five — Ice Cream
The funny, metallic pinging of “My Heart will Go On” filled the air as Donnie and I turned to see rural Uganda’s version of the ice cream truck. I love the ingenuity and resourcefulness I see in Ugandans. I think we’ve had such an easy life in America for so long, that we tend to… Continue reading Travelogue: Day Five — Ice Cream
Back in Uganda
I haven’t blogged in a while…time is flying by. I never finished my travelogue posts from our first trip and now I’m actually typing from Uganda, having been here ten days already. It’s been a long and exhausting trip—I feel like I’ve been here a month, at least. Donnie was here for the first week… Continue reading Back in Uganda
Another Separation
Tomorrow, I fly home without our girl. Things did not go well at the embassy on Monday. It’s really too long and boring to type out, so I’ll summarize by saying that it was due to paperwork errors that are largely the fault of our completely inept attorney. Or, former attorney, that is. We have… Continue reading Another Separation
New News
I haven’t had a lot to say since we got home from Uganda. I’ve been busy nursing the knee injury I sustained while there, and then had a big weekend celebrating my parents’ 50th wedding anniversary. All that coupled with adjusting back to life here has kept me busy. AND, there hasn’t really been anything… Continue reading New News
Love that Endures
Our girl needs to come home. I’ve really, really had enough of the waiting. Honestly, I’d had enough of the waiting this time last year. I was fed up in January after court, when it took five weeks to get the ruling that was promised in one. It was heartbreaking to go home in April… Continue reading Love that Endures
Last Day in Uganda
With much joy, relief and gratitude I announce that our daughter received her visa yesterday. She and my husband will begin their long journey home tonight. It feels crazy that we’ve finally reached this point. It’s been three years since we first found out about her; two and a half years since we decided to… Continue reading Last Day in Uganda
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