Category Archives: Updates

Learning to Love as Five || Lulu’s first year Home

Hello!  [blows five inches of dust off blog] If anyone is still out there…Hope you are well. Between Instagram, facebook, and that whole parenting thing, my days of blogging appear to be numbered. I did want to make sure to mark in time a great milestone for our family as we celebrate one year home with Lulu...

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And she’s off!

The truth of the matter is Fasi has been on the go-go-GO from about the very moment her tiny toes tested the waters of freedom back in March. I remember distinctly on our second day together with her thinking, “Oh my, I do believe we are in for a very different road than I had anticipated,” upon realizing our...

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On the Horizon

The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of a horizon. -Henry Miller New things on the horizon my friends, but aren’t there always? If we keep moving, no matter the pace, the horizon will forever hold an...

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Addis meets Rocky Top

Lulu is 18-months-old already, pretty wild to think about. One of the many things she enjoys spending time doing (besides finding tiny particles of dirt on my floors to snack on and climbing tall, treacherous furniture for giggles) is dancing with her siblings. Of late she has really started to perfect her own Ethiopian version...

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baby steps to English

We have rounded the four-month mark since arriving home, and every day when new (or sometimes old) challenges arise I have to remind myself of the little victories littering our journeyed road. Lulu clearly understands most everything we say to her in English, and generally shows us so by doing the exact opposite of what she has been told.Typical...

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