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K2 has been home with us for 19 1/2 months now - some days it feels like he's always been here, others like he just arrived. As you may recall, we were part of a group of ten families who all traveled to meet and bring home our children at the same time...
For one week in late 2009 we lived at the same orphanage, took our meals together, and became parents to our children together. Eight families, including ours, even took the same flight from Addis Ababa to Washington DC together, a 19hr adventure we'll never forget. We became extended family to one another, in a manner of speaking... our children knew each other before they knew us, and that counts.
We haven't been as good as I'd planned on being about staying in touch, but we do what we can. Kids have chatted over skype first in Amharic or Sidaminya, then in English. Emailed photos and Facebook have kept us up to date with growth, school, broken bones, court dates and other milestones. Tonight, however, we managed to get together for dinner with one family we haven't seen in person since we got off that plane.
Their son has grown so big, but easily recognized by the huge smile he was wearing. Seeing everyone, the months melted away quickly and over a delicious meal of injera, doro wot, zilzi tibs, shiro and yekik alicha we soon were reliving the time in Ethiopia, hearing all the details of the past year, and making plans to get together soon. Our sons thoroughly enjoyed seeing each other, and K2 was quietly relieved to see another family that looked Just Like His.
Here's to families of choice, and of the ties beyond mere DNA that bind us together.
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From pixxer:
I'm LOL about several comments under the tip jar in LeftyCoaster's reclisted diary Rick Perry says 'I've been called' to run for President. I think you have to start here and don't stop till you read through aliasalias' pertinent question, and at least get to Rogneid's speculation as to who is making those prank calls.
Probably this sub group is what you want - tells a good story :) (brillig's note: have linked comments to author name)
Lefty Coaster -> auapplemac -> Cuseology -> chicating -> Rogneid.
From Dragon5616:
In DemFromCT's CBS Poll: 71% shun GOP handling of debt crisis, Jan F starts with a quotable comment and techiechick answers with one of her own in this exchange.
HeyMikey explains the real nature of the evolution/creationism divide in one of the best resource diaries ever, dirkster42's A Chronicle of Religious (well, Christian) Affirmations of Evolution.
In this thread in science's rec listed diary Higgs Boson Announcement Coming Soon, Via Chicago sets up the joke and the fun begins.
From Julie Gulden:
this comment was from my NOTW Whistleblower diary today. lyvwyr 101 offers best snark comment!
From Yours Truly, brillig:
The first paragraph of inclusiveheart's comment in Hunter's Rebekah Brooks' husband 'accidentally' has computer thrown out made me snort.
Miss a few days and suddenly the FPers are all over the sidebar! I liked what Joan McCarter had to say about community.