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The Merrill Adoption Story: June 2008
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The Merrill Adoption Story. This blog was created to share our adoption journey with family and friends. Sunday, June 29, 2008. JuneBasketball, Bugs, Warm Weather Finally! The month of June was filled with basketball camps for the girls, a whole lot of mosquitos and finally some very warm weather. We had a lot of rain and the river was very high and overflowing the banks the first part of June, so therefore we have MOSQUITOS! I love you so much! This weekend Clint and I took the boys to the Denver Zoo, O...
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The Merrill Adoption Story: I don't know where to start...
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The Merrill Adoption Story. This blog was created to share our adoption journey with family and friends. Sunday, July 26, 2009. I don't know where to start. I am so far behind that I don't even know where to start. So much has happened since my last post, State Track for Bailey, Graduation for Sierra, Freezing Fourth of July, Baseball for Nati, Tee Ball for Kidus and swim lessons for both boys. Summer is flying by and the kids will be back in school soon! A visit from grandma and grandpa Caley! Also, HAP...
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The mission of Also-Known-As, Inc. Is to empower the voice of adult international adoptees, build cultural bridges, transform perceptions of race, and acknowledge the loss of the birth country, culture, language and biological family experienced by international adoptees. Post-IKAA meetup happy hour" 18. The American Adoption Congress. Is composed of individuals, families and organizations committed to adoption reform. We represent all those whose lives are touched by adoption community. Is a private, no...
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Who If Not Me?: We're Filed!
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Who If Not Me? You are welcome to share our joy, anger, fear and excitement as we move through the process of adopting our HIV son and daughter from Ethiopia. Wednesday, October 24, 2007. Okay, if there is anyone out there who still bothers to check this - so sorry I haven't posted! MORE IMPORTANTLY - We have great news! We found out yesterday that our case was filed in Ethiopia! That means that (hopefully! I know Lulu will not be happy if we leave her for Xmas. But I think that may have a great deal...
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Who If Not Me?: How to Convince Your Family that You Are Not Taking on Too Much?
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Who If Not Me? You are welcome to share our joy, anger, fear and excitement as we move through the process of adopting our HIV son and daughter from Ethiopia. Saturday, September 8, 2007. How to Convince Your Family that You Are Not Taking on Too Much? I was finally able to talk to my brother yesterday. Unfortunately, it had to be on the phone. Which wasn't ideal. But overall it went okay. He admitted he doesn't know anything about HIV - which is fine! I think that it can also be just adoption related (s...
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Who If Not Me?: The Cat's Outta the Bag!!! Disclosure Issues
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Who If Not Me? You are welcome to share our joy, anger, fear and excitement as we move through the process of adopting our HIV son and daughter from Ethiopia. Thursday, August 23, 2007. The Cat's Outta the Bag! OK, so I have been horrible about posting! This blog thing really doesn't come very natural to me. However, I think it is important to share the things we are going through. I know that when we were deciding whether or not we "could" adopt an HIV positive child, this series of posts. So that's it,...
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Who If Not Me?: What to do when you are so "over it"?
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Who If Not Me? You are welcome to share our joy, anger, fear and excitement as we move through the process of adopting our HIV son and daughter from Ethiopia. Thursday, September 6, 2007. What to do when you are so "over it"? I'm having a bit of a problem - there is still one person left on my 'list' to disclose AJ's. Here is my problem:. I am so OVER the issues! We spent weeks (months! Over the decision. Researching, talking, etc. Now, that we are committed to AJ. And that makes me feel kind of bad!
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Who If Not Me?: September 2007
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Who If Not Me? You are welcome to share our joy, anger, fear and excitement as we move through the process of adopting our HIV son and daughter from Ethiopia. Monday, September 24, 2007. Our Great News - and, what's that? The sound of our joy being sucked away. I haven't even had the 'fun' of announcing yet that Drew and I made a very exciting decision - not only are we adopting AJ from AHOPE, but also a daughter! To be perfectly frank, my relationship with my parents, formerly very close, has changed dr...
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Who If Not Me?: Welcome!
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Who If Not Me? You are welcome to share our joy, anger, fear and excitement as we move through the process of adopting our HIV son and daughter from Ethiopia. Friday, August 3, 2007. I have been thinking about doing this for WEEKS but never got around to it! Just to make our house a bit more complicated, we also have two dogs and a crazy kitty (all from one rescue or another). Two of my three Ethiopian wonder children are HIV . This blog is meant to be a place to share my thoughts on HIV, HIV adoptio...
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Who If Not Me?: "We Are Still Here" - Documentaries about the Adoption of HIV+ Children
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Who If Not Me? You are welcome to share our joy, anger, fear and excitement as we move through the process of adopting our HIV son and daughter from Ethiopia. Thursday, August 23, 2007. We Are Still Here" - Documentaries about the Adoption of HIV Children. Productions created a documentary. About the adoption of HIV children, profiling children from Ethiopia and Vietnam. I believe it has been shopped. To Oprah and HBO, but I haven't heard of any takers. If you go to http:/ www.decaproductions.com/. With ...