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Adopt a Fiddleback
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Thanks for the kind words. You are right, a lot of prayers have been answered!
By the end of today we will have had her for 1 week! So far no surprise visits by the social workers. 8 more days and then the final sentencing. She is doing awesome. Each day she is smiling more and she is becoming more and more comfortable with her 2 sisters. Here's a photo from today while she was watching her sisters be silly, just a cruddy cell phone pic but you get the idea!
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WAAAAAAY too cute!
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Thanks Michael! How are your little one and wife doing?
I look forward to posting some knife pics here too whenever they arrive!
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We celebrated the 4th with some other American missionary families. We got special permission to travel with our daughter, so we traveled 3 hours outside the city to grill out under a bridge. Our friends butchered a lamb and we all chipped in with the rest.
WARNING . . . there are NO Fiddlebacks! They haven't got here yet. No fear though, a nice axe and a knife were used in this remote backcountry event!
Gorgeous wife and new little daughter!
Whole lamb
Lamb is coming along and we've got Baked Beans in the Dutch oven.
Kiddos playing in the mud! The pic with one girl is my middle child and then my eldest is in the middle in the pic with several kids. This river really runs during the rainy season . . .
More pics in next post . . .
WARNING . . . there are NO Fiddlebacks! They haven't got here yet. No fear though, a nice axe and a knife were used in this remote backcountry event!
Gorgeous wife and new little daughter!
Whole lamb
Lamb is coming along and we've got Baked Beans in the Dutch oven.
Kiddos playing in the mud! The pic with one girl is my middle child and then my eldest is in the middle in the pic with several kids. This river really runs during the rainy season . . .
More pics in next post . . .
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Here's my middle kiddo . . . Previous post would only let me have 5 pics!
We hung out under the bridge so we could have shade if needed. I promise the photo is level
it's just the perspective and the bridge angling away from me.
Some other vistas . . .
We hung out under the bridge so we could have shade if needed. I promise the photo is level
it's just the perspective and the bridge angling away from me.Some other vistas . . .
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Here's my middle kiddo . . . Previous post would only let me have 5 pics!
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We hung out under the bridge so we could have shade if needed. I promise the photo is level
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I want to come visit.
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Thanks, man! We are all doing well. 6 week checkup for the wife today, 8 week for the runt soon. Doc checked him out anyway and was amazed at how big he is already.
I can't wait for the knife to arrive either. Somewhere inside, I know it hasn't even shipped yet I can't stop compulsively checking the mailbox. I do NOT envy your wait. I'd be rubbish until it arrived (well....sort of like I am now, but for a longer time 😄
It looks like you are already having some amazing adventures with the new little girl. She is lucky to have found you (and vice versa).
Peace,
Michael
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Come on down! It's an amazing place.
Thanks, man! We are all doing well. 6 week checkup for the wife today, 8 week for the runt soon. Doc checked him out anyway and was amazed at how big he is already.
I can't wait for the knife to arrive either. Somewhere inside, I know it hasn't even shipped yet I can't stop compulsively checking the mailbox. I do NOT envy your wait. I'd be rubbish until it arrived (well....sort of like I am now, but for a longer time ��
It looks like you are already having some amazing adventures with the new little girl. She is lucky to have found you (and vice versa).
Peace,
Michael
That's awesome Michael! Glad to here the family is doing well. Also glad you and I both finally have our hands on some Fiddlebacks! Truly awesome knives. The Runt is small (I was fully expecting this, but it still just fits in the hand awesome. My 2 Finger Karda is the same way. A lot of blade and a little handle but perfectly sits in the hand for good grip and great blade control.
This is my current Fiddleback family. I posted some other pics of the 2 Finger Karda in the '2 Finger Karda' thread. There are 5 of us so I should have at least 5 right?! I need a bid Dad sized Fiddleback . . . a Camp Nessie, guardless Woodchuck, or a Woodsman would fit the bill nicely
Once I get a bigger blade I look forward to posting in the food thread!We just finished our adoption's evaluation period and it went real well. Social services wrote their report and now we have to wait for it to get to the judge to reveiw. After that happens then she will schedule a final sentencing! Can't wait to give her our last name officially!
Thanks again to all who have followed and supported us.
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Makes sense to me! Can't have the kids fighting over their inheritance when you go, right?
Sounds like I need to have a bunch more kids...... 😄
Prayers for you and yours,
Michael
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Haha! My wife is already talking about possibly another adoption in the future . . . we'll see! Just another excuse for me to get another 'inheritance' item
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Haha! My wife is already talking about possibly another adoption in the future . . . we'll see! Just another excuse for me to get another 'inheritance' item
LOL, I guess I better adopt about 40 children if this is the criteria used. I am getting a little long in the tooth to consider this though.
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Our evaluation period was wrapped up last Thursday and the social worker wrote up her report. It was very favorable! Last night we found out that our sentencing was this morning. So, as of 8:30 this morning Ilanna is no longer a ward of the State, but a card carrying member of the our family!!!
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Anyone who wants can adopt me! 😎
Michael
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Thanks Michael! Now that she is legally ours, I plan on sharing some details we weren't free to share before lest there be any hiccups in the process. I'll try to post later today or tomorrow.
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Ditto!
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I'd like to share what I wasn't at liberty to share before:
Back in October when we were praying and trying to see if we should adopt or not, we talked with a lawyer about adoption. He told us that he had handled some adoption cases in the past and that he could help us. He told us that we should start visiting an orphanage right away and try to develop a bond with a child because that would help our case with the judge. He also directed us to social services and informed us that we would have to take some required 'adoptive parent' classes. We immediately started visiting an orphanage and a little 11 month old girl named Esperanza really captured our hearts. The more we visited the more we fell in love with her and she with us. Fast forward 3-4 weeks and it was time to attend the adoptive parent classes. We quickly found out that the law very clearly states that people may NOT select a child. In fact if you petition the judge for a specific child it is a good way to anger her and she may not assign you a child at all! It had been a long time since he had handled an adoption case and the law had changed a ton (there had been a scandel with a previous judge and a Nun. They had been facilitating the adoption of children to foreigners by finding young pregnant girls, paying for all medical care if they'd give up rights to the child, and then quickly assigning the newborns to foreign 'couples'. Except that they were not real families . . . the children were being taken across the border and butchered for organs on the black market. AWFUL story but it changed how all adoptions are handled). Well, needless to say we were heart broken. Here we had developed a real bond with a baby and now we learned we couldn't ask for her, we were completely at the mercy of the system. We continued to visit until early January because we were working with some of the children at the orphanage teaching them Christmas songs for a live nativity. Our bond with little Esperanza only grew deeper and it became a huge burden on our hearts. We decided it would be best to stop visiting the orphanage because if we were assigned a different child, it would only be that much harder on Esperanza and us. We continued with the adoption process knowing that it was highly unlikely that our names would be matched up with hers. It drove us to our knees and we begged God to do what only He could do, give us Esperanza to be our daughter! Months went by and she just barely passed out of the age range we had selected . . . it was impossible . . . she couldn't be the one. We prayed even more fervently! Finally received the news that we had been assigned a child. We went to our lawyers office and he showed us a document with just the initials and birthday of the child the court had assigned us. It was her! It was our Esperanza! God had done the impossible. Our names were 10th on a list of couples that had just been assigned a child and we were assigned the very child we had fallen in love with all those months ago! She wasn't even in our age range anymore!!! Truly a miracle and answer to prayer! We did not do anything outside the law. We wanted no trouble, just the child that God had for us. So now we have our little miracle baby!
We'd like to thank this community for your support!
Back in October when we were praying and trying to see if we should adopt or not, we talked with a lawyer about adoption. He told us that he had handled some adoption cases in the past and that he could help us. He told us that we should start visiting an orphanage right away and try to develop a bond with a child because that would help our case with the judge. He also directed us to social services and informed us that we would have to take some required 'adoptive parent' classes. We immediately started visiting an orphanage and a little 11 month old girl named Esperanza really captured our hearts. The more we visited the more we fell in love with her and she with us. Fast forward 3-4 weeks and it was time to attend the adoptive parent classes. We quickly found out that the law very clearly states that people may NOT select a child. In fact if you petition the judge for a specific child it is a good way to anger her and she may not assign you a child at all! It had been a long time since he had handled an adoption case and the law had changed a ton (there had been a scandel with a previous judge and a Nun. They had been facilitating the adoption of children to foreigners by finding young pregnant girls, paying for all medical care if they'd give up rights to the child, and then quickly assigning the newborns to foreign 'couples'. Except that they were not real families . . . the children were being taken across the border and butchered for organs on the black market. AWFUL story but it changed how all adoptions are handled). Well, needless to say we were heart broken. Here we had developed a real bond with a baby and now we learned we couldn't ask for her, we were completely at the mercy of the system. We continued to visit until early January because we were working with some of the children at the orphanage teaching them Christmas songs for a live nativity. Our bond with little Esperanza only grew deeper and it became a huge burden on our hearts. We decided it would be best to stop visiting the orphanage because if we were assigned a different child, it would only be that much harder on Esperanza and us. We continued with the adoption process knowing that it was highly unlikely that our names would be matched up with hers. It drove us to our knees and we begged God to do what only He could do, give us Esperanza to be our daughter! Months went by and she just barely passed out of the age range we had selected . . . it was impossible . . . she couldn't be the one. We prayed even more fervently! Finally received the news that we had been assigned a child. We went to our lawyers office and he showed us a document with just the initials and birthday of the child the court had assigned us. It was her! It was our Esperanza! God had done the impossible. Our names were 10th on a list of couples that had just been assigned a child and we were assigned the very child we had fallen in love with all those months ago! She wasn't even in our age range anymore!!! Truly a miracle and answer to prayer! We did not do anything outside the law. We wanted no trouble, just the child that God had for us. So now we have our little miracle baby!
We'd like to thank this community for your support!
