Accepting and Loving our Family formed through Adoption

When you start going through the process of adoption as a parent, you are put through a good amount of education about adoption. In addition to learning about the process, you learn a new lingo, think about issues of multicultural families, discover a new community of people, receive information on the truths about orphanage life, [...]

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Pho is yummy

Daniel and I were first introduced to this yummy noodle soup when we went to a Vietnamese restaurant in Atlanta with my friend, Den, in January.  I’ve been hooked on this stuff ever since.  It is an AMAZING comfort food.  All warm and spicy (when you add the chile sauce) and sweet (when you add the [...]

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Completely off topic- Grammar and the fluidity of language

OK, my addendum to my 5/10 post makes me want to blog about grammar, language, and teaching English.  For my close friends and family, I will try to make this brief.
I am constantly amazed by the insistence that I must notice, and internally ridicule, every grammar error or language inconsistency, written or spoken, that I come across, regardless [...]

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The baby room is becoming Winnie the Pooh Central

  All Winnie the Pooh, All the time…. Winnie the Pooh Updates 24/7… these Winnie the Pooh curtains brought to you by my mother creations…. Winnie the Pooh border, stickers, and hamper all purchased from WalMart.   (Stickers sponsored by Daniel’s mother).  Lovely gender neutral green paint lovingly applied to walls by yours truly and the [...]

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Paperwork has landed

We received an update from our agency that our dossier arrived in Vietnam safe and sound, and it is currently being translated.
I know for sure that we are one of the 1st 6 dossiers to be submitted for our agency.  I just don’t know exactly where we are in the order of things.  Not that it really [...]

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WE ARE DOSSIER TO VIETNAM!!!!!!

Our dossier just got mailed to Vietnam today!  There, it will be translated and logged in with DIA!  WOOOO!!!!
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5/23- My friend, Paul, later pointed out to me that “we are dossier to vietnam” is not a grammatically correct sentence.  It then dawned on me that “non-adoption folks” have no idea why I phrased my title [...]

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Our dossier will be in Vietnam before we know it!

YEEEEE HAW!!!!

Our last 2 documents are on their way back home!  We should get them by tomorrow evening!  We should have WACAP’s contract by Wednesday!  Our dossier should be in their hands on Thursday… and off the dossier goes to Vietnam!
 WOOOOOOOO!  HOOOOOO!

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Approved by WACAP

OK.  I talked to WACAP today.  (I think that I talk to them almost every day… sometimes more than once a day.)  We have been approved.  I should be receiving the contract from them next week.  Hopefully, our last 2 documents will come back from the consulate next week too.  It sounds like the San [...]

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May Day in Vietnam

Apparently, April 30 is Victory Day (Celebrating the uniting of Vietnam under communist rule and the victory over the US) and May 1 is International Labor Day in Vietnam.  From what I can gather, they celebrate these two holidays for an total of for 4 days?
In any event, this means that our last 2 docs are in [...]

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