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Ending the adoption 22 Mar 2008 | 01:03 am
Dave and I have decided to end the adoption. Some potential changes to the program have come up that I am not at liberty to discuss in this public way, but that triggered us to evaluate staying in the...
new number update 12 Jan 2008 | 10:30 am
Since they changed the way they giving out numbers to give just the spot on the overall list rather than your spot on just the girl or the boy list I decided to ask Nikki what our current spot was. We...
Wow I almost missed the month anniversary 22 Dec 2007 | 04:36 am
It almost is like when you have a baby, all those months at the beginning seem like huge milestones and then when they have their first birthday the months are less important. Last week marked the 13t...
Lunch with other adoption families 6 Dec 2007 | 09:31 am
This last Sunday we joined other Kansas City families associated with international adoption for lunch. This group is called Inter Country Adoption, http://kansascity.ica.googlepages.com/home , and th...
One year! 16 Nov 2007 | 04:27 am
Yesterday was our 1 year anniversary of waiting for our daughter. To commemorate the date we all tried out a new Vietnamese place in Shawnee. Our course Shawn didn't believe us that there was a city w...
negative news story about our agency 15 Nov 2007 | 08:32 am
http://www.ksdk.com/news/cover_story/cover_article.aspx?storyid=134134 Apparently no agency is perfect. The wrongful employees were fired and it sounds like it was more to speed up the adoption proce...
some clarifications and updates from my agency 26 Oct 2007 | 06:34 am
I found out that they changed the policy about expediting Vietnamese families. All Vietnamese families that are currently waiting (around 30) will be expedited, but all future families will not. So th...
Ethics in International Adoption 24 Oct 2007 | 01:54 am
I found this link on one of my adoption yahoogroups I am on. http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2007/11/did-i-steal-my-daughter.html?src=email&link=hed_20071022_ts1_Did%20I%20Steal%20My%20Daught...
the 14th 18 Oct 2007 | 07:51 am
Shawn and I were actually in California on the 11th month anniversary. So I thought I'd share a picture from our trip, since it's been a little while since I've posted a picture. Here is Shawn playing...
Updates for October, 11 months down 18 Oct 2007 | 07:45 am
Well another month passed. We have been informed that we will no longer be able to find out our number on the list, which is sort of annoying. I know we are pretty close, but I feel for those who are ...
