One of the benefits of being and older mom is that you have a lot of personal experience and you can handle child rearing in a different way. I don’t worry as much as I used to with my first child, and try to live day by day. Any parent feels [...]

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When we decided to adopt a child and started to look around for a program to choose, the other option we seriously considered besides Ethiopia was Haiti. The wait and cost involved in the adoption finally tipped the scale towards Ethiopia and with great sadness we left Haiti behind. Have we [...]

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I’ve compiled a list of questions that I often get asked by people who want to adopt or has already started the process of adoption. More than a year after we brought the children home I fell more ready to post answers, in particular the ones related to parenting the children. This is just my [...]

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On the 24th of December we got the present, the one we were waiting for, we got it in the mail… Yes, the new birth certificates arrived at last! We started the re-adoption process around mid-September, so it took a little more than 3 months to finish and [...]

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