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The DeMoss Family: April 2012
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Exploring international adoption, raising kids, homeschooling, and more. Saturday, April 14, 2012. If a baby book is meant to be a record of firsts, it really should document every second of the firstborn's life! He has to survive parents who don't truly KNOW what they are doing. Every child that follows has a parent with a little experience. I know they will like Tim - everyone does! Will they WANT to be in our family? What gifts would they enjoy at their age? What will we do together for our visits?
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The DeMoss Family: September 2012
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Exploring international adoption, raising kids, homeschooling, and more. Thursday, September 27, 2012. We have a court date! Our Bulgarian team will be appearing before a judge on October 9 to finalize our adoption. M and V will be legally our children in all ways except that they are staying with "friends" in another country. : ). Monday, September 17, 2012. 1 Follow this link to Show Hope's Facebook page. Https:/ www.facebook.com/ShowHope? If we can get 1500 hearts, we earn an extra $500. If all five f...
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The DeMoss Family: August 2012
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Exploring international adoption, raising kids, homeschooling, and more. Sunday, August 26, 2012. I just wanted to let everyone know that we have received one of the grants we applied for! Why are they adopting if they don't have the money themselves? Why are they adopting from another country? According to Ephesians 1:5. God decided in advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. This is what he wanted to do, and it gave him great pleasure. (NLT). We are so clo...
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The DeMoss Family: March 2012
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Exploring international adoption, raising kids, homeschooling, and more. Saturday, March 31, 2012. If you are familiar with international adoption, you know how expensive it can be. While some of the fees have already been paid, we still have many more to go, not to mention the cost of traveling there twice. HOW YOU CAN HELP. To join you and your team in donating $10. Each (more or less won’t be refused). If you could do that, your team would have generated $100! Than $10, that would be awesome! You migh...
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The DeMoss Family: Day 4 -- US Embassy
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Exploring international adoption, raising kids, homeschooling, and more. Thursday, November 1, 2012. Day 4 - US Embassy. This has been a very slow day. We just hung out in the apartment most of the morning. Just before we headed out for lunch, we discovered we had no running water. We headed out and ended up at Subway - where they had no electricity. We got sandwiches and ate by what light was coming through the windows. How are things going with the kids? Have you been asked to pay any unusual fees?
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The DeMoss Family: Long Overdue Update
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Exploring international adoption, raising kids, homeschooling, and more. Saturday, December 22, 2012. Refusing to follow directions (what kid likes that? But these directions can even be simple things like put on your shoes so we can go. Wanting to go back to Bulgaria (mainly Milcho.Tim told him he has to learn English first and get an education here. Then he can go back and help "his people".). Hitting and just being really rough. I'm way behind on pictures, so let me just jump straight to that. And a l...
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Finding Malibu: May 2012
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Thursday, May 31, 2012. End of the School Year:. Wednesday night was the end of the school year celebration at K’s preschool. It was fun—it lasted all of about 15 minutes. They sang songs, said a prayer, danced, got a certificate, and ate cupcakes. All in all, a good night. Here is Miss K with her teacher, Miss Jessica:. The class of 2012 of the Jordan Academy (well, part of them! Kicking back with Daddy after the stress of graduation:. Her class doing the “Freeze Dance”:. Posted by Carolynn and Steve.
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Finding Malibu: September 2012
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Saturday, September 29, 2012. Paging Dr. Karina (pictures). Posted by Carolynn and Steve. Friday, September 21, 2012. Three years ago, on Sept 20, 2009, we met this face for the very first time:. Posted by Carolynn and Steve. Sunday, September 16, 2012. Playing in the rain… (Picture Post). Pictures from the weekend of August 25:. Posted by Carolynn and Steve. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Trust in the Lord with all your heart,. And lean not on your own understanding;. In all your ways acknowledge Him,.
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The DeMoss Family: November 2012
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Exploring international adoption, raising kids, homeschooling, and more. Thursday, November 8, 2012. Day 7 - Coming Home. I'm a little late with this. Pictures to follow soon. Today has been a day of travel. I didn't even bother going to bed last night. I was busy packing and charging electronics - remember I had to charge them one at a time since I only had one adapter. I went ahead and got my hair washed about midnight so it could be drying, and I sat down on the couch about 1:00am. Vanessa's pill wore...
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The DeMoss Family: April 2013
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Exploring international adoption, raising kids, homeschooling, and more. Tuesday, April 30, 2013. 6 Months Since Gotcha Day. I know it's been a while, so I intend to make up for it by being long-winded. Grab some coffee. Let's chat.). I signed up both to have an activity in common with the kids but also for a way to release stress. So far, so good! 8221; It was then that I realized that our two had lost their “cuteness” before we ever left Bulgaria. I was tired, angry, sleep-deprived, con...It's funny...