Adoption News

Received word that our dossier is in Washington D.C.  WooHoo!!! We will receive word back next Thursday or so.  Last night Steve & I went to a Waiting Families forum through our home study agency Adoption Options. We were the only family adopting from Ethiopia and they really didn't have much information on Ethiopia adoption itself. We did have a few questions answered. Our biggest eye opener in the process that we wanted to address is that some of these children still live with their mother/families. What?!!! They aren't put into the orphanage until a family is found for them. Poverty & hunger must be so powerful that to save the ones you love you allow them another family in a far away place. We thought that all children placed didn't have families. Really struggling with this whole concept. Not having been in poverty I just can't fathom what these families go through.

Library

We made a trip to the library the other day. I checked out Don Aslett's Clutter's Last Stand. I'm ready to chuck even more stuff and really minimize "things". The more things we have the more we have to take care of them and make space for them. I don't want more housework!!! 

I did realize that I need to utilize the library more. No reason to buy books if I can borrow them for free. No shelf space, no dusting, no rearranging every few years. Sounds like a deal to me!!! I also found more adoption books. The boys found lots of books and can't wait to go back.