Do not be afraid, for I am with you;
I will bring your children from the east
and gather you from the west.
Isaiah 43:5
Friday, May 16, 2008
Gollum
My istructions before the almost 3 year old went outside: no mud, no flower beds, no mulch. Within 5 minutes I peek outside and see him buck naked swinging his diaper around his head and then plop into this mud hole in our back yard. Instead of getting mad I got the camera.
Just so everyone knows, that area is where we normally put the temporary pool so grass doesn't grow well there. We haven't put up the pool yet. We normally don't have mud puddles like that in the middle of the yard!
I am a wife to a wonderful man, and a mother of five beautiful, healthy children. If I had time, I would get organized, read, research stuff, exercise (pressing on!), and take more naps. We live in the great state of Oklahoma. Life is good. God is great!
A List of Common Adoption World Abbreviations and Terms
SWI - Social Welfare Institution, the orphanage, but also sometimes an orphanage and a home for the elderly
SN - Special Need, some of the families request a child with a special need, we have chosen not to
LID - Log In Date, the date your dossier is officially logged in in China
Travel Group - All the other families who have the same DTC/LID date as we do and we will all travel together unless one of them chooses a child with a special need. Usually all the referrals in a group come from the same orphanage, which will be another thing we will have in common with our travel group.
I-171h - a PPP that we waited 6 weeks on so we could finish our dossier
USCIS - United States Citizenship and Immigration Services
Bethany - Our adoption case worker at Dillon who is very patient and has a great sense of humor
Dillon - Our adoption agency, which we love, is based in Tulsa, but serves many parts of the country, and it's Christian based
PPP - Pretty Peace of Paper, once you have received the pesky one it becomes the pretty one ;)
PPP - Pesky Piece of Paper, which is any piece of important paper you are waiting on
Referral - The first picture you see of the child you have been matched with and a brief medical history
1 comment:
Just so everyone knows, that area is where we normally put the temporary pool so grass doesn't grow well there. We haven't put up the pool yet. We normally don't have mud puddles like that in the middle of the yard!
Lyndal.
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