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Making Room for Another - Calder Family Adoption: May 2015
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Making Room for Another - Calder Family Adoption. Thursday, May 14, 2015. Calder, Party of SIX. We have been home for 2 weeks now and settling into our new normal. Which, due to bringing home a toddler, is a new normal indeed.it includes being surprised when opening the cabinet door to the kitchen trash and thwarted by a child safety lock. Every.Single.Time. Seriously folks, for whatever reason? Thank You to our parents - without whom would have been impossible - we will forever be grateful! Powerful stu...
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Making Room for Another - Calder Family Adoption: April 2015
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Making Room for Another - Calder Family Adoption. Thursday, April 30, 2015. Bumps and VISA CLEARANCE! We are cleared to come home, by the grace of God, but what a frustrating week it has been. Ohmyword. We were not only not ready to submit, because of these last minute paperwork errands, but Little Miss and I were in a car from 7:30am until Noon for NO REASON! Why is submission so important? Or why could we go on the same day? We headed to embassy (with no appointment) - turns out? Links to this post.
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Making Room for Another - Calder Family Adoption: Our home away from home.
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Making Room for Another - Calder Family Adoption. Tuesday, May 5, 2015. Our home away from home. For all of you curious WHERE we spent a lot of our time while in Ethiopia? This post will satisfy. We were so excited to be able to stay at the Wellspring. This trip. When I was in Ethiopia in January (and stayed at a friend's home) we were in need of a driver and Ephrim was the consistent highly. We would be staying when we returned - so we told Ephrim to keep a room ready for us! Construction of the buildin...
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Making Room for Another - Calder Family Adoption: September 2014
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Making Room for Another - Calder Family Adoption. Wednesday, September 24, 2014. A wee bit excited. It's official - we've moved onto the next phase (#145, just kidding) of the process! Our agency was quick to respond to USCIS's request for evidence and our officer emailed today to tell us that she had passed our file on to Addis. So what happens next? Our remaining process looks something like this:. 5 FINAL STEP - Adoptive parent court date - this is where we get to travel! Of course timelines on each o...
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Making Room for Another - Calder Family Adoption: What's left and more.....
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Making Room for Another - Calder Family Adoption. Tuesday, April 21, 2015. What's left and more. Anyone out there wondering just what we are waiting on here? We have been in country for 12 full days since passing court and are waiting out the multiple things that happen between court and taking Little Miss home. What are they? Where are we in this above process? The fun didn't end yesterday after getting Little Miss's passport underway - we spent the rest of the day out and about. Ephrim even found a...
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Making Room for Another - Calder Family Adoption: The last Hurrah.....HOME!!!!!!
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Making Room for Another - Calder Family Adoption. Sunday, May 3, 2015. The last Hurrah.HOME! I shouldn't have been surprised that our trip ended as it began - a whirlwind. As I mentioned in the last blog post, I emailed our travel agent pretty much the second we cleared embassy with this subject heading.CAN WE GET TICKETS BACK FOR TONIGHT? We packed like we were leaving, without knowing if we were or not. Here is how things unfolded. Be possible - but a long shot - as ticketing didn't officially open for...
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Making Room for Another - Calder Family Adoption: Intentionally different
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Making Room for Another - Calder Family Adoption. Wednesday, October 29, 2014. How excited I am that we are getting close to the bringing home of little miss! Although nothing has recently changed and we don't know quite when (come on last document! We are close enough that I realize a little prep work needs to be done. Besides preparing my family and home for her arrival, I also need to start preparing those who we see in our day to day lives. I'm so glad you asked :). You know, like parents. Things wil...
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Making Room for Another - Calder Family Adoption: February 2015
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Making Room for Another - Calder Family Adoption. Friday, February 27, 2015. The day has come. Little Miss's referral-versary. One full year since we got our first glimpse of her sweetness, her beautiful eyes (which you all have yet to see! And we started dreaming about her specific. Little spot in our family. We've gotten to see her firsts through the lens of a camera - 8,000 miles away. In clothes we sent. Holding onto a toy. 1st time pictured outside. 1st rash (which ended up being the measles - oy!
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Making Room for Another - Calder Family Adoption: Here's to ET "routine", adventures and victory......
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Making Room for Another - Calder Family Adoption. Sunday, April 19, 2015. Here's to ET "routine", adventures and victory. I've mentioned that most of our days are consistent.what does consistent look like? 7am - Little Miss wakes up/bottle (Jason and I get ready for the day). 8am - Delicious breakfast compliments of Yeshi ;). 8:45am - Little Miss gets dressed/lotion/hair fixed then play, play, play. 10:30am - Bottle and nap. Noon - Lunch, playing and nearby walking outing (Kaldi's, store, Britton's wifi).
