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Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas friends and family! Thanks for all your support during this year. We have transitioned from Haiti back to the states. Currently seeing where our future holds. We have both been involved with Haiti – more to come on that front in the next post. We were reminiscing of last year and the year before…
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Just a Little Tongue Tied
Have you ever heard someone say they were tongue-tied? tongue-tied (adj.) 1. Speechless or confused in expression, as from shyness, embarrassment, or astonishment. 2. Affected with tongue-tie. (source: free dictionary) I never really thought about where this phrase came from. Apparently, it is a real thing to be tongue-tied! We found out the hard way when difficulty…
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Just Arrived: Eliana Grace
Eliana Grace. 6 lbs 11.5 oz. Born 11/19/2013 at 3:12a Melissa started contractions at 10pm. We thought it was going to take a while before needing to go in to the birth center but at 2am-ish Melissa started feeling like the baby started pushing. Realizing that this was different from the previous contractions we rushed…
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Traveling to WI, MN, SD, WA, CO!? Oops!
Well well well… I think we are finally relaxing a bit (at least as I begin to type out this post – might be different by the time I am done). You see, we had planned some visits when being back but didn’t realize what that all really entailed. It was kind of like,…
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My First Somewhat Scary Pregnancy Moment with Melissa
We are obviously entering into new territory, as Melissa put in our last blog. Yesterday, I had my first tense moment when I learned what happened to Melissa, especially because she is pregnant. Maybe this happens to many others during pregnancy… I have no idea. One of the workers found Melissa on the hallway floor…
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Surprise!
If you know Ryan or me very well, you’d know that we’re not the first people to want to hold someone else’s baby at a gathering, or to volunteer for nursery duty at church. I’ve always said that I’m either having zero kids or four, leaning more towards zero. In Haiti, literally everywhere you go, when…