Off to the Market

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Welcome to the family!

I am pre-writing this, so the moment it is offical news, I can post it!
 
My little (6′3″) brother called me earlier this week to let me know he is going to propose to his girlfriend D this week.  I am SO happy for them!  D is a really nice girl – serious and fun at [...]

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Career Highs and Lows

Well, I had a career highlight and a career low yesterday.  I didn’t get the job I was vying for, and it was a real disapointment. So I’m staying doing advertising for a realtor.  But it’s a bit of an ego blow.  One month, I have an assistant.  The next month, I am an assistant.  I [...]

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New house! New job!

Jrock and I haven’t posted for a little while because we’ve been awfully busy. 
First news, we bought a house!  The inspection is tomorrow, but the other conditions have already been removed.  It’s a lovely storey-book tudor revival.  We’re going to have lots of fun fixing it up (ok, so I’ll have fun and J will [...]

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My sister visits

Sisters are different flowers from the same garden. 
One thing about living in the Okanagan – you sure get a lot more guests!Locals complain about the yearly invasion all the time, but for us, it’s just wonderful. 
My sister S and her buddy K came to visit us last weekend.  We had lots of fun hauling Jrock around [...]

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Hair Hair Everywhere

When I talk to moms who’ve adopted from Ethiopia, they often say that doing their children’s hair is either 1. their biggest challenge or 2. their biggest pleasure. 
Personally, I’m really looking forward to it! I love doing hair and I think it’ll be good bonding time.
Check out my friend Shelley’s home videos about simple hair techniques, [...]

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Generations of Smiles

  
Through the whole homestudy process, I think Jrock and I have really spent a lot of time thinking about our families, and the way we were raised.  How lucky we are to have such great, loving families… and how lucky our kids will be to have such awesome grandparents, aunts and uncles!
Here are the photos [...]

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Harambe

 
Thanks to our friend T in Golden, Jrock and I got to go out last Thursday evening to the Harambe Camp in Naramata. 
Harambe is a swahili word meaning “Coming Together As One”… this camp is for Canadian families with black children adopted from Haiti, the USA and Ethiopia.   It really reminded me of the French [...]

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Protest Site C

It’s amazing some of the lines of hooey that politicians feed you when they want something to happen.  For example, “hydro-electric energy is green energy.”
Hooey!  Water coursing through a dam is renewable energy… but what about the devastating effects from flooding a watershed?  Animals and their habitat drowned.  Farmers and landowners displaced.  First Nations cultural [...]

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Almost done all the paperwork!

Adopting involved a TON of paperwork.  There are all the documents and clearances you need to collect, forms to fill out, homework to do…
We’re almost done!  I finished up all the immigration paperwork on Sunday and as soon as we get into see a Notary, (and our family gets their pictures to us,) our complete [...]

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Do something

 
Doctors Without Borders
Stephen Lewis Foundation
The Global Fund

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Ratatouille

For those of you that don’t know, Jrock and I spent our honeymoon in France.  We have a serious wine hobby and I just love food…
As J said, “I really never noticed what I was eating until we were in France.  Everything is delicious there!”
Last night we went to Ratatouille, and [...]

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