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Health of Children Adopted from Ethiopia

Posted in Adoption, Ethiopia on February 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »

From the International Adoption Clinic in Boston. Please see the abstract and source here.
Since 2000, American families have adopted 1,700 children from Ethiopia. Little is known about the health and development of these children. Patients and Methods Retrospective chart review of the arrival health status of all 50 (26F:24M) children from Ethiopia/Eritrea seen in the [...]

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Thinking of a new business: Family Dolls

Posted in Adoption, Work on February 26, 2008 | 15 Comments »

I have quite a few jobs.. some careers, some whims and some small businesses. Jrock and I were talking in the last while about how we’re going to pay the bills while I’m on mat leave.  At least we’ve figured out the part-time work! after that is finished, but the mat leave is quite a challenge.  [...]

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Just a feelin’

Posted in Adoption on February 21, 2008 | 19 Comments »

One of our on-line friends was waiting for a referral (after a very long road of waiting) and received a call when she was in Las Vegas two/three weeks ago!  Jrock has been in Las Vegas all week for a conference, and I couldn’t help but feel we were going to get lucky in Vegas [...]

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Signs of Spring

Posted in Fun Stuff on February 19, 2008 | 5 Comments »

There are definitely some advantages of living in Kelowna… man, it’s only mid-February and Spring is on the way! 
The first evidence: tulips – I think? or maybe irises – popping up in the side garden of the house.

The second evidence – that warm breeze coming across the lake… Hamish and Maggie and I were out [...]

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First dinner guests

Posted in Fun Stuff, Home on February 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Our house is finally at the point where we can have people over!  It’s still not all finished, but as of Friday at about 5:10pm, I have a fully functioning kitchen.
We invited some friends over, and I had a vague hope that the oven would be in by then.  On Thursday, the plumber came and [...]

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Food for thought

Posted in Action, Environment on February 15, 2008 | 7 Comments »

I got these photos via email… it’s interesting on so many (cultural, health, economic, political, etc.) levels…
(if anyone knows where this came from originally, please let me know.)

Germany : The Melander family of Bargteheide
Food expenditure for one week: 375.39 Euros or $500.07

United States : The Revis family of North Carolina
Food expenditure for one week $341.98

Italy : [...]

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Trying to kid-proof

Posted in Home, Parenting on February 14, 2008 | 10 Comments »

I’ve really tried to keep our kids in mind while we’ve been renovating our house – places to play, to run, to sleep, to craft, etc. But there is one area that I hadn’t child proofed – our living room and the hall entry. In fact, I bought some *expensive wallpaper for the little wallway [...]

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Waiting Update and Retail Therapy

Posted in Adoption, Fun Stuff on February 12, 2008 | 7 Comments »

In the last week we’ve had some news concerning the referral wait. 
First, our agency emailed with up-to-date wait times.  Our particular request (one child under 1 and one child under 4) changed from an estimate of 2-6 months to, now, 6-10 months.  Needless to say, I was somewhat aghast. Jrock was steady, since he had [...]

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Happy Birthday, JJ!

Posted in Family & Friends on February 7, 2008 | 5 Comments »

A very super happy loving laughing full-of-hugs birthday wish to my husband – who as of today, is firmly planted in his thirties!

I had a cake made for him by an amazing cake artist – you might recognize our animal babies – Hamish, Vega, Haatim, and Maggie. We surprised him at work for lunch today!

We [...]

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What’s missing?

Posted in Parenting on February 5, 2008 | 13 Comments »

Ok, so I was out shopping the other day, and decided to go into Toys ‘R’ Us and stare at all the baby stuff that I can’t buy because I don’t know how old my kids are.  This is just one of the lame activities expecting adopting mothers do – besides blogging and checking my [...]

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Man down!

Posted in Home on February 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »

This is not good – I need this guy for heavy lifting!
 
Jrock was playing hockey on Friday and out on the center-ice, reaching for the puck, he was slammed by another player on his side.  Youch! So his side was all messed up.  (He looks very brave in this picture, but he’s been groaning and [...]

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Five Months

Posted in Adoption on February 1, 2008 | 10 Comments »

Ok, so now my husband is even starting to get antsy.  A couple nights this past week, he’s said “I think it’s tonite!  check the email!” but then, no.  No referral.  Guess he doesn’t have woman’s intuition…
But when Jrock is getting antsy – you know we’re due.  Any day now.  Any day….

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