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there’s no place like HOME
I really LOVE to travel. I love being out of the country and I love being surrounded by culture. I love the adventure. But this time… I COULDN’T WAIT to get home!! Im not sure what it was, or literally...
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One.
Ever since we found out about Caden, when he was only a teeny tiny 5 months old .. we just kept saying we wanted him HOME by his first birthday!! I was, of course, hopinggg he would be home way sooner...
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beware…complaining may occur.
We are still here. Alive and well. I am creeping out from under the rock Ive been hiding under. Ive been in a fog of not knowing what in the world to blog about because life has just seemed so insane....
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Oh, No she didn’t!
Hey!!! Its me! …. Lisa. Lisa Maxfield. Remembeeeer, I adopted a sweet little boy from Ethiopia ??? Ringing any bells? Yeah. I’m sorry, I know its been forever! And I am not promising to blog regularly....
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3 Months Home
Yikes. Some days I cant believe we have been home a whole three whole months and other days it seems like we have had our little bean here forever. Caden is such a sweet boy. He has just settled in...
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A personal letter from the past.
So for some reason the other day I randomly remembered this letter I wrote to my Dad a long time ago. **This is very personal! ** But I guess I wanted to share it for a lot of reasons. Sometimes it is...
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6 Months Ago…
6 Months ago today we walked into the orphanage our little boy had been calling home for a few months. It was his 3rd ‘home’ He was with the 4th group of people to take care of him alongside tons of...
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worn.
This is going to be a downer. You have been warned…. so 2012 was kindof a really hard and sucky year for me. I know I got Caden home and got to go on amazing trip to Taiwan, so maybe you think I...
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Hard to believe….
that ONE YEAR AGO we took that long bumpy drive to Adama to meet our son at the widow and orphan home run by YWAM. It was Easter weekend for us, Palm Sunday for Ethiopians. None of us traveling...
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Umm, Is this thing on??
Guess WHATTTT guys??? There is no other way to say this than to just blurt it out….We are so excited to share with you that we have ANOTHER baby boy!!! I KNOW this has to be a surprise to you, because...
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Blown Away
Hey Guys! So I just wanted to take the time to write a quick entry on whats been shaking since our CRAZY news of our new baby boy. First of all. He has a name { yay } We decided He will be Myles Blake...
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no cause for fireworks.
While I totally know this is our adoption blog and is supposed to be all uppity, it is also kinda my place. My place to be real and honest and say things that I may not normally say. I process. I spend...
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The scream heard round the block
So Excited to report to you that we just received our 171h in the mail !!!!!!!!! All you adoption savvy friends know exactly what that means but for those that do not, THIS is a big deal sheet of paper...
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its been a day.
Hey all. SO. its been a day. A GREAT DAY. (a very stressful, overwhelming, panic attack like every 10 minutes kindof day) So much has happened on the adoption front I cant even keep it all straight. I...
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Grateful.
Guys, I am just so grateful. I’m so blown away by all the sales that have come through to get Myles home!! I have worked so hard I feel like I could just cry because its paying off and God is just...
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Our Bean is 2!!
Wow…. has this last year just FLOWN by for everyone else…or just me?!?!?! I can’t even believe that our sweet lil product of Ethiopia is 2 years old! I feel like I just did his last birthday post and...
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Have you heard the Word??
Hey Guys! I never announced it officially on here that I have started an ETSY shop of my very own and love love love creating, designing and making ALL sorts of fun stuff to sell in order to bring...
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Leving on a jet Plane…
wait a minute… DIDN’T WE JUST DO THIS??? yah, yah. we ToTaLLy did. I’m telling you, I do not know what happened. I don’t know how this all has been possible or the logistics of what is going on in...
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An extreme case of Deja Vu
Its so weird inside my head right now. So many emotions and feelings. Some good, some bad & some hard. Last April we went to meet Caden and appear in court. He was 8 months old. Just like Myles....
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