Some Pictures

Pictures from Tom Davis’s Facebook update:

Day 3 Kombolche

There is so much to say about the last 48 hours so let me start with the describing the kids that we met with in Kombolche and then I’ll follow up tomorrow with a post about the 20 hour driving adventure (over a 36 hour period) of getting to and from. 
The facility we visited in [...]

Day TWO

This blog update is coming from my phone while lying under a mosquito net deep in the heart of Ethiopia so please excuse the brevity.
Today was spectacular, comical, heartbreaking, treacherous, educational and humbling all mixed together – a cocktail of emotions, of which words alone can not describe, which left a bitter sweet taste in [...]

Day ONE and Pictures

So today was a very good day!  We arrived safe in sound in Addis Ababa after about 19 hours door to door (15 hours of flying time).  Being six foot one on Ethiopian Airlines is a bit of a liability but overall I got say it was a great flight.  The highlight of the flight [...]

Day One in Ethiopia

This is Andrea blogging for right now. Pete has arrived in Ethiopia, and just sent me a message that said, “At our first orphanage now, kids are beautiful!” 
Oh, my heart! Right now the team is at the Promising Orphanage in Addis. 
Tomorrow they will be getting up early and heading 6 hours north of Addis to [...]

Discomfort Zone

A little less than a year ago my wife Andrea and I attended a holiday dinner party at the home of good friends of ours – the Smiths. In the classic tradition of this excellent hostess, each of the eight dinner guests was presented with a card containing a thought provoking question. Our task was [...]

Adoption Rodeo

This blog post goes out to my fellow adoptive fathers, particularly the first timers (i.e. rookies) out there who are just getting rolling on the craziest emotional ride of your lives. Oh no, I’m not referring to the ups and downs of the adoption process itself. I’m referring to being married to an expecting adoptive [...]

What are you going to do about it?

Nearly three years ago, shortly after making the decision to adopt a baby girl from Africa, Andrea and I had an after dinner conversation that ended up laying the foundation for a mission and a passion that we never could have imagined.
As we sat around our dinner table that night, we were just beginning the [...]

Painfully Waiting

The following is an excerpt of an email that my wife Andrea sent to an expecting (adoptive) mom to help her deal with a key pain factor of international adoption – WAITING. I believe this email is relevant to all of us who are WAITING for anything in one way, shape or form. More specifically [...]

Meeting A Child For The First Time

This video provides a glimpse into the glory of adoption, a glory which triumphed over every obstacle and challenge we faced along the way.  I hope it will encourage you in some small way.  This video was taken a little over a year and a half ago in Ethiopia when we were blessed to meet our [...]

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