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Slowly turning a house into a home

September 3, 2010

Sorry for not writing the past week, things have been swirling about us and we have not had time to catch up on here. We had a school picked out for the kids but then found another one that seems to be quite a bit more suited to their specific needs so we have been [...]

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School time

August 28, 2010

First of all I need to say thank you to everyone who has been donating to help us meet this months budget, we are starting to get a lot closer to making it and so thankful that we do not have to lay off nannies to make ends meet. Thank you all for your generous [...]

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Little Yosef

August 24, 2010

Sorry we did not post about Yosef again yesterday, this week has been a tough one on our family. It seems that everything went full throttle a few weeks ago and has not slowed down, its after 7 pm right now and we have all been working since before 6 this morning. Whoa!!! Needing some [...]

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Please Pray for Yosef

August 23, 2010

Little Yosef who came to live with us only a few weeks ago is having a serious problem today and we want to ask you to pray. At about 10 days old he developed a clogged milk duct which apparently is fairly common in newborns because of the mothers hormones being left in their bodies. [...]

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Enough is more than to much

August 23, 2010

Yesterday Lale and I finally had the chance to sit down and talk, we are based two days drive from each other and often have to connect by phone, and if you have ever talked on a cell phone in Ethiopia you know that the connection leaves much to be desired. So yesterday for the [...]

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A moment

August 18, 2010

Just after six this evening I got the call that the caravan that has been slowly making its way north for the past few days was only a few minutes away. I grabbed a few of our kids (dividing and conquering works best with as many little ones as we have around the house these [...]

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8 Months

August 14, 2010

If you have been following us for a while you will remember back in December when we picked up a little boy named Teraffa, he was starved nearly to the point of death by his tribe members who believed that he was mingi. He was around 2 and a half years old and had gotten [...]

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Moving time

August 13, 2010

I’m sorry in advance for how few words I have today. We have been moving the orphanage into the new compound and its been a long and tiresome process. Only 5 of the 25 kids are moved in so far, we have almost all the new staff hired and training has began in full swing. [...]

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It’s a boy!

August 9, 2010

For the past 4 months Gulo has been making her home at the orphanage as she waited the birth of her baby, a few nights ago that baby finally made its emergence into the world! He is a sweet alert baby boy who went to live with Micah and Emily just a few hours after [...]

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What a difference a week makes (and a few other random things)

August 8, 2010

Its hard to believe its not yet even been a week since we took in our foster boy, but if you took a look at the little man you would think he had been here for years. He has stopped crying so much and has been sleeping a full 11 hours each night, he even [...]

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