Or at least, may Sue Hayhow, former Executive Director of Imagine Adoption, be brought to justice.
Babies were malnourished, children (including ours) got one meal a day for some time, Ethiopian staff families did without income and went hungry for months - all because of her incredibly selfish, ruthless, and maniacal decisions. What kind of twisted person? I [...]
I am so behind in my posting, it’s not even funny. Here are some pics from today - we had two play dates (one with T from Swaziland and her mommy), as well as meetings, errands, an emergency icecream trip (I was having a melt-down,) a hair cut, etc. This month coming up will be [...]
We had a great time last weekend at our annual winter get-together up in Lavington, with all our friends from Okanagan Families With Children From Africa. Above is a picture of SOME of our collective kids - there were quite a few more.
Here’s a little video to show you a bit what it is like when [...]
Any analysis, Auntie Ena?
It’s funny how identical (as far as we know) twins can have such different face shapes. Added to the usual difference, Sugar just shot up another centimetre (yes, that’s added tot he two inches in Dec/Jan!) and Spice is currently sporting a pre–shooting-up rounder face.
Anyway, Sugar always looks fresh and best with her hair back [...]
This kid makes me feel so woefully inadequate! And when I started feeling better that “well, at least he doesn’t know all the lyrics!” - crum. His first language isn’t English. Durn it. He learned to play the uke in three months! Amazing…. What is he, like, four years old?
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Eat your hearts out, prairie folk - we have tulips 4 inches high in our yard. (And the Vancouver people say “so what?” lol!)
But with the Olympics on the tube every night, we felt inspired to spend our day off up on the skihill. Despite Spice’s pleas to ski, we decided they should start off [...]
We are so very lucky - at the girls’ pre-school there are five families from Africa, including one Ethiopian family.
We got invited to their son’s birthday party today, and it was so great. There were 5 or 6 Ethiopian/Eritrean families there, as well as a Kenyan family (the only one we had met before. The girls were a little overwhelmed [...]
If you recognize the lady’s name, Hanna Pool wrote “My Father’s Daughter” - a great true read about an Eritrean woman, adopted to a UK couple, who went back to examine her roots. (In my bookstore.)
One thing that parents have to be aware of when we adopt transracially is that our family becomes conspicuous. Anonymity does not exist for us anymore, unless we go out without our kids, of course. Then we just - blend.
I think every family in this situation has some variation along the theme, but we do [...]
Seriously, these girls can manage a 4 out of 5 pepper on the pepper scale - I’m like a 1. Or a 2.
You can watch them chomp and talk about spicy food in the video below. Turn it up to hear their thoughts on curry and buffalo wings.
PS: Sugar is back to her regular self [...]
It was our first time having a sick baby the last two days… Poor Sugar didn’t eat a lunch, supper, breakfast and lunch again. Yesterday she was lack-lustre, but this morning she was just pitifully tired and bedridden. Poor dear. Obviously she had the stomach flu (although being first time parents we still called my BF [...]
This just gave me mushy eyes when I saw it. Call me a sentimental ole BC Girl.
I was at my grandpa’s funeral and a nice lady came up to me and said how much she enjoyed my blog. We’re used to this happening in adoption circles, but not in that circle! Anyway, she said she especially liked all the posts on Ethiopia and how much she had learned. So since I [...]
Our life has got a little weird scheduling-wise lately. I’m still finishing my previous contract and took a new one on for the next month (couldn’t say no - unique opportunity…) so we are squeezing everything. The kid go to preschool for three hours three mornings a week (read mad crazy intense working) but then [...]
