Love Thursday

Usually when I do “Love Thursday,” I try to pick photos of our girls in Haiti. However, my computer has crashed and I am using my husband’s computer. I am therefore limited to using whatever photos he has on his computer. This photo is of my daughter, Claire (born in the U.S.) and my son, Ezra (born in Ethiopia). They are both three years old. Claire is older than Ezra by two months. We adopted Claire at birth and Ezra when he was seven months old (Claire was 9 months old when Ezra came home). When they were younger, people always asked us if they were twins. We don’t hear that as much… [more]

I love this photo of my husband, Tim with our youngest child, Talley. This is from our first trip to Haiti. In fact, it was taken on Talley’s first birthday … on July 13, 2006. Before we started our journey to adopt from Haiti, I had begged Tim for months to adopt a newborn baby. He semi-agreed at one point, but a few weeks later admitted that he was seriously regretting his agreement. He felt like he was done with babies and never wanted another child under the age of three. Eventually he agreed to adopt Georgia, and though she was two when we accepted her referral, we knew that she would be at least three… [more]

I learned about our daughter, Georgia, from my friend, Tana. She had met Georgia on a Parent Trip to Haiti. She had noticed Georgia, standing off by herself, afraid of all of the commotion. Tana spent a little time with Georgia, but never got her to smile. Our adoption coordinator sent me lots of photos of Georgia in the beginning—photos she had been collecting for nearly a year. Georgia was not smiling in any of them. In fact, she was downright sobbing in some. We learned that Georgia did not smile. She did not like the white volunteers and cried when they came by her. She was portrayed as an extremely… [more]