My Turn

This is actually the first time I have been able to get on the blog site and post myself. Before I was e-mailing David and he was posting for me. He had been working so much and forgot to give me the access info. Now I have the passwords, etc. so that I can add, edit, etc. also! My next goal is to get our blog on the Gladney site.

Congratulations to Matt and Renee! They go and get their son the week of 01/14/2008!! We are very excited for you and pray that everything goes well for you! Check out their link (located to the right) "Our Ethiopian Adventure" it's really neat. They have opened their arms to adopt an older child. We are proud of your guys & know that you'll make great parents.

Renee and I were talking and we want their son to teach our child some words in their native language. We know our child, being so young, will loose most of the language but it will still be neat to know some words. Plus, it will be neat to have two kids from Ethiopia in the family.

Here is a post I wrote December 21st- I just haven't had time to get it put on our site.
Today I spent part of the day looking at blogs- I think I looked at just about every blog posted on the Gladney site. It was really neat b/c I have spent a good deal of time looking at these blogs before, but I felt like I was seeing them for the first time. I am at my grandpa's house in Wyoming and he has cable. Thanks grandpa! All we have at our house is dial-up (which is fine for most things). But, with cable the pictures came in clearly and it didn't take 1-2 hours to open a site or 4-5 to download a video clip!! Plus sites didn't just close down on me b/c they were too much to handle. I was excited to see David add the video clip "One Year Later" it is a really cute video and we have really enjoyed watching it. So, those of you that have something more than dail-up check it out! ;)

The blogs are so cute. They make me even more impatient for our referral. We still have our home study to do and our dossier but I still look forward to that day. One agency we looked at called the paper case the "paper pregnancy." I think thats a neat way to think about it. Its fun to read what everyone has been up to and how their adoption is unfolding. It is unbelieveable how many people are waiting for their referral on the Gladney site. I think its neat how more people are adding to their families through adoption. We recieved an e-mail that there were so many people working on adopting through Ethiopia that Gladney is having to add to their staff. I am not surprised after seeing all of the blogs.