Since we brought the children from Ethiopia we’ve been having the problem that it’s hard for the baby to take a nap due to the noise in the environment. Feven generally takes two naps, one short in the morning and a long one in the afternoon.The problem is that Feromsa rarely takes a nap [...]

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 In a previous post, I wrote about the documentary film Soldier Child, about children kidnapped and used as soldiers in Uganda. Now I will talk about a second movie I saw that same weekend. The Devil Came on Horseback is a documentary about another human tragedy in Africa, this time in Darfur, Sudan.Most of us [...]

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The relationship between Dylan and Feromsa has improved so much that it’s almost incredible. Before they spent the time fighting all day just about anything and they barely tolerated each other. But now Feromsa is always anxious waiting for his brother Dylan to come back from school to be with him.Dylan on the other [...]

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One of the house chores I hate the most is to wash-dry-fold clothes, and it was one of the things that worried me when we decided to bring two more kids home. I imagined spending hours and hours just washing clothes and actually it didn’t end up too far from what I expected…We don’t [...]

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