This is a flashback to one year ago when I traveled to Vietnam to adopt my son.*Written by my travel mate and aunt, M~ except for the added stuff in bold from me.
Dec. 19 I woke up at 4:30am again, but this time it was because it hit me that I had thrown away the Kleenex [...]
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Flashback: Dec 19th Hanoi
Posted in Travel, adoption, tagged Vietnam Adoption on December 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Flashback: 12/18 Passports, shopping
Posted in Travel, adoption, tagged Vietnam Adoption on December 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is a flashback to one year ago when I traveled to Vietnam to adopt my son. *Written by my travel mate and aunt, M~ except for the added stuff in bold from me.
Dec. 18 In the morning we got a load of dark clothes together to bring to the front desk for COLD water [...]
Flashback: 12/17 Cau Dai, MeKong
Posted in Travel, adoption, tagged Vietnam Adoption on December 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is a flashback to one year ago when I traveled to Vietnam to adopt my son. *Written by my travel mate and aunt, M~ except for the added stuff in bold from me.
Dec. 17 G~ had another somewhat restless night, not as bad as the first, but sleepless for Lina nonetheless. This time when [...]
2009 – 1st Anniversary
Posted in adoption on December 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’m putting together a video for Gabe’s first year, but it isn’t done yet. I have just a clip from yesterday that I will show you here and when I get the rest of it done I’ll post the link here too. My awesome aunts and mom threw us a little party to mark our [...]
Flashback: Dec 16 2008
Posted in Travel, adoption, tagged Vietnam Adoption on December 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This is a flashback to one year ago when I traveled to Vietnam to adopt my son. *Written by my travel mate and aunt, M~ except for the added stuff in bold from me.
Dec. 16 We got up early again and Lina gave G~ his first bath. He wasn’t too excited about that and pretty [...]
Flashback: Adoption Day
Posted in Travel, adoption, tagged Vietnam Adoption on December 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is a flashback to one year ago when I traveled to Vietnam to adopt my son.
Dec. 15 We woke up again at 4am. We got the gift bags ready for the nannies and took showers. We met the others at the breakfast buffet, ate and took off for the orphanage. [I kept thinking about [...]
Flashback: Traveling to Da Nang
Posted in Travel, adoption, tagged Vietnam Adoption on December 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is a flashback to one year ago when I traveled to Vietnam to adopt my son.
Dec. 14 We got up around 4 am since neither one of us could sleep. It started raining after we woke up, so that made us more awake. We got the stuff ready to bring with us to Da [...]
Flashback: We made it to VN
Posted in Travel, adoption, tagged Vietnam Adoption on December 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is a flashback to one year ago when I traveled to Vietnam to adopt my son.
Dec. 13 We got to Hong Kong about 6am Dec. 13 (lost a day in there!) We stuck with Heather and Jim, got to the departure gate and went straight to the restrooms. Cleaned up a bit [this [...]
Flashback: Getting to VN
Posted in Travel, adoption, tagged Vietnam Adoption on December 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On this day one year ago my aunt and I were on a plane flying to Vietnam. We actually flew out of Minneapolis on Dec. 11th, but we lost a day on the way over and landed in VN on the 13th. I found that while in Vietnam I really didn’t have time to post. [...]
Thanksgiving
Posted in adoption, holidays, kids on November 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This Thanksgiving was bittersweet for me. Sweet because it was G~’s first Thanksgiving home. Last year I was still waiting to hear when I would get a giving and receiving date. This year he was there – sitting in his high chair eating turkey. He didn’t eat much…he’s more of a grazer lately…just eats all [...]
