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Life's Longing for Itself: October 2012
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Life's Longing for Itself. Your children are not your children; They are the sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. -Kahlil Gibran. Tuesday, October 2, 2012. We've got our hands full over here:) The shelter sent me a text at 10:00pm on a Sunday. These three had shown up at the shelter and all their cages are full. Would we take them? Looks like some serious foster cuteness, eh? We will have them for three weeks, and then they will be old enough for adoption. Magoo, what is 27 divided by 9?
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Life's Longing for Itself: July 2012
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Life's Longing for Itself. Your children are not your children; They are the sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. -Kahlil Gibran. Wednesday, July 18, 2012. All Caught Up (for now). Aren't you all proud of me? I finally caught up! I post most of my updates to Facebook, so this blog is a second thought. Since there isn't much going on with the adoption, I've added some stories about the family this time. Thumbs up or down? Links to this post. June 2012 We needed some good news. Extreme weight l...
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Things That I Know Now | Couple Raises Child
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An Ethiopian Adoption Story. Things That I Know Now. July 2, 2015. Four years ago, we stepped off an airplane and started our lives as a family of three. I have had four years of parenting under my belt. I know Davy Beach better than I know anyone. I love her to the moon and back. I would kick anyone in the teeth who tried to hurt her. I am her momma bear and she is my child. Fuck with her and there will be hell to pay. There is a lot of grief and trauma. So for the last few months we have been going to ...
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Boy Those Holidays | Couple Raises Child
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An Ethiopian Adoption Story. January 6, 2015. The month of December was very very very hard. Dave’s a kid who really feels all her feelings and there were many many many that month. Couple with sugar, couple with an adult in our life who fed her an entire package of Red Jello, coupled with parties, and visitors and more parties and more sugar, well you get it. There were moments of great beauty and fun during this time. I love the holidays. I love our family, friends, our dearest friends who are ...So I ...
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About | Couple Raises Child
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An Ethiopian Adoption Story. Lisa Weisman and Andy Beach. Married 11 years. Currently living in Portland with their two funny dogs. Lisa is a fiber nerd, spinner, knitter quilter who obsessively knits things for her child. Andy is a computer guy who puts up with Lisa’s antics. Proud parents to Davy Dinkenesh Beach, born Kembatta Ethiopia in November 2010. She arrived in Portland Oregon on July 2, 2011. 3 thoughts on “ About. November 25, 2015 at 7:58 pm. January 10, 2016 at 8:38 pm. Dim Sum and Doughnuts.
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Here’s to Chesire…. Here’s to Cheese | Couple Raises Child
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An Ethiopian Adoption Story. Here’s to Chesire…. Here’s to Cheese. October 1, 2014. Where have you been all the day, Henry my boy? Where have you been all the day, my pride and joy? In the woods, dear mother. In the woods, dear mother. Mother be quick, I got to be sick and lay me down to die. She says moooommm can we listen to the song about the dead kid again . Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public).
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July | 2015 | Couple Raises Child
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An Ethiopian Adoption Story. Monthly Archives: July 2015. Things That I Know Now. July 2, 2015. Four years ago, we stepped off an airplane and started our lives as a family of three. I have had four years of parenting under my belt. I know Davy Beach better than I know anyone. I love her to the moon and back. I would kick anyone in the teeth who tried to hurt her. I am her momma bear and she is my child. Fuck with her and there will be hell to pay. There is a lot of grief and trauma. So for the last few ...
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Life's Longing for Itself: July 2011
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Life's Longing for Itself. Your children are not your children; They are the sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. -Kahlil Gibran. Thursday, July 21, 2011. How to NOT Go Crazy. This adoption stuff is not for chickens. It is yet to be determined if we are chickens or not.). This month 18 Ethiopian orphanages were closed quite suddenly by the Ethiopian government. The children were whisked away to other sites. In Ethiopia, adoption agencies are not allowed to run orphanages. Even if an agency do...
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Life's Longing for Itself: March 2013
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Life's Longing for Itself. Your children are not your children; They are the sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. -Kahlil Gibran. Sunday, March 3, 2013. My husband and I took a trip to PA to fulfill our last educational requirement. For the adoption: day long class on adjustment of institutionalized children into a. New home. We got to watch one of the Karyn Purvis videos – which I was. Excited about since they are so expensive to buy. Not much new here as I’ve. So here I am with Molly and an...
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Life in the Fish pond: August 2012
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LIFE IN THE FISH POND From the pond to Ethiopia to adopt our newest Fish. And all the craziness from here to there. Sunday, August 19, 2012. Posted and updated at 7 months). Time is flying by, and my blog has been terribly neglected! I've thought of many posts I'd like to write/should write, but somehow, it never gets done. The girls and our family are doing well. I think we've reached a good stride. We're melding together and all figuring out our "new normal". She definitely is athletic! She loves all t...