Now that our family is together and adjusted…moving on!

Now that we are all fully transitioned, which was our top priority for many months, I can focus on some other stuff in addition to parenting: Fitting in to my jeans After a 6 day “cleanse”, I am now committed to getting some physical activity which means cycling, yoga or walking daily. A yoga studio [...]

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Fond Memories of Our Dog Scooch

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What We’ve Been Up To: A Photo Update

What we’ve been up to lately: We also got to meet our Auntie and new baby cousin, but I don’t think we can post pics online. So fun!

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We Have Custody of Baby Zen!

We officially became Zen’s parents on November 1st. I got the call at 4am November 8th that we officially have Zen in our custody, exactly 4 months after Ali’s arrival. I’ll do a post about my husband’s trip to pick up our baby girl once I have those pictures. Now that we have her, I’ll [...]

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Adoption Trip 3 Pictures

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IT’S ANOTHER GIRL!

It’s a girl! ‘Zen’ was born February 5, 2010 in Leningrad Russia. She is 20 months old. Hubs will be going to pick her up in a couple of weeks. The adoption court hearing was very difficult and I don’t want to ruin this happy news with all the drama, so I’ll put that in [...]

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Happy Birthday to Me ~ Orphanage Visit

Hubs and Ali woke me up at midnight on my birthday to wish me a Happy 37th with a delicious cake topped with a flaming inferno. Although they found a wonderful (surprise!) cake at a nearby bakery, they could not find any birthday candles and the “make a wish” part was really important considering we [...]

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Family of 4 Cycles 3 Years from Alaska to Argentina

Way back in March 2010, I wrote a post about this incredible family of 4 cycling the Pan-American highway from Alaska to Argentina. Amazingly, after 3 years cycling 17,000 miles, they have completed their journey! This interview is a MUST READ for everyone interested in adventure traveling with children and/or worldwide life learning. I am [...]

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Russia Week 1 in Pictures

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Planes, Trains & Automobiles

So we took a 16 hour overnight train to Plan C region and submitted documents there. That regional adoption official also said it will ‘take 10 days’ to get us registered. The regional official there seemed more friendly. Since we could not get an immediate referral (until we are officially registered in the region) we [...]

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