Tag: Ethiopia

  • Adding strands to web of my personal connections to the world

    The last two months have brought radical changes to our family, and, although I’ve “written” many posts in my head – none of them have made it to this space. I wrote drafts of posts on the first three nights of our week-long trip to Ethiopia to meet and bring home the kids, but couldn’t…

  • Day 6 – Shopping Day & Coffee Ceremony

    Friday morning was shopping day. Ron was very organized about this, and had a list of folks at home to buy gifts for. I was glad that he was so disciplined about it. I was distracted the whole time with concerns about clothes for the boys – I had underestimated S’s shoe size, and needed…

  • Day 5 – Embassy day!

    Today was the day that we would go to the US embassy to get the visas for the boys that would allow us to take then home. We had been given a prep talk on the evening of the second night that we were there to fill out the forms correctly, and know a bit…