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What you’ve missed
Oh my. Yes it has been that long. So instead of taking a month to blog about it, here is what you have missed… We are full on in camp. Dave is with Student Life this week and Rush of Fools at Wake Forest University. I’m wishing I was there. Emma’s with him. I don’t…
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Watching others Dream
Do you have people that you know in your life that inspire you to do things you only dreamed about? I’m sure if we all took a minute to pause and look back or in our lives we would all find those people that when we see their lives in action…. they somehow leave us…
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Why Haiti Changed Me On My First Visit
15 years ago? It was the summer of my junior year in High School. I took a trip to Haiti with an organization from a nearby town in upstate New York. I had never been out of the country. My first trip to Haiti changed my life forever. Liciajust posted this post (I’m including the…
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Love Gives
I’ve been stirred beyond words. How do I make our world a better place? How do I be a part of… “stopping hunger, injustice, poverty, making someone else’s life better, investing in people?” I don’t know. And I don’t think many other people know either. Or they know there are problems out there but at…
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Following the Journey of others……
I follow many blogs. Thanks to my Friend Jamie who showed me how to use Bloglines… now I follow too many blogs! Well not really but it makes my little time I have to catch up with people very efficient. But the reality for me is that I LOVE a journey. Could you tell? I’m…
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Big Day
Today is a big day in our adoption journey. One of 2 big days coming up. Today all of our papers are on their way to Chicago to get Legalized to be used in the Haitian Courts. Once they return, off to Haiti they go. That means EVERYTHING on our end is done. I can’t…
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Jamie and Chrystal heading to Haiti today.
Please pray for Jamie and Chrystal today and for safe travel to Haiti. Jamie and her husband Aaron lead our trip this past May. They are in the process of adopting two children from Haiti. She is heading there to see them. She will be seeing the Livesay Family, Licia and Lori and doing what…
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Mom, no fair.
Last night I was tucking Emma into bed. Doing our normal snuggle time before the lights get turned out. All of a sudden she says to me… “Mom it’s no fair!” And I asked her “what is no fair?” She says “it’s no fair that I don’t live in Haiti.” And I asked her “why…
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Adoption Process Update
With being excited about our family vacation there are other things going on around our home that are exciting as well. I am hoping to finish up some things on our end so we can make some really wonderful announcements concerning our adoption process. We do have a referral on a little boy and I…
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Some things you may not know about Haiti.
Here are some things you may not know about Haiti: – Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and one of the poorest in the world, with eighty percent of the population living in abject poverty. – Nearly half the population is chronically undernourished. – Healthy life expectancy at birth is only 43…
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