Child Abandonment & Abuse

I’m feeling much better.  Just a little weak.  Dan is worse.  Since he’s been in bed for three days now, he can’t get comfortable, and sleep comes intermittently.  In other words, he’s miserable.  We can’t go to the orphanage yet another day.  We’re disappointed, but it can’t be helped. I shut off parts of the […]

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My Idea of Hell

We’re both sick today–nausea, fever, chills, malaise, aches & pains.  I tell Dan that what we need next is a car crash.  That would round everything out quite nicely. We call our translator to ask her to please inform the orphanage director we won’t be visiting today.  First, it would be rude to bring germs […]

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Ball of Fire

Dan wakes up with a fever and a severe headache.  We decide that he shouldn’t visit Liliana with me this morning.  I’m a little worried about what she might think, when she doesn’t see her papa show up.  She comes willingly enough, but she peers over my shoulder for a few seconds, searching for him. […]

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Genes or Environment?

I can’t tell you how fascinating it is to watch a child who is yours, but who has none of your genes.  Truly, she’s come to us without our DNA makeup, so what she is, right now, is a mix of her parents’ genes and her environment.  This has always been a curiosity for us–which […]

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The Naming

It’s been a tough day for us. I will tell you the bad news first.  Then comes something happy, I promise. We learn today that we cannot leave the country until the middle of October, due to the judge not waiving the waiting period of ten days after the court date.  Don’t ask; I probably […]

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