Noah has a complicated “family” day or Noahversary as we like to call it. Hubs and I arrived in Ethiopia on August 20, 2006. We met and held Noah for the first time on August 21st–for a total of about an hour. He was then taken back to the hospital, where he stayed until August [...]
June 28, 2008 June 28, 2008 June 2010 June 2010 Two years ago today, we were sitting in Washington’s Dulles airport waiting for our flight home. Home for you to meet you daddy and your big brother. You smiled at me on occasion but more often than not gave me a look of suspicion as [...]
This National Writing Project institute is intensive. It is amazing but intense. I haven’t written creatively for a very long time. It is certainly what I enjoy writing the most but it is something I haven’t written in a long while. Who has the time to write for oneself in an honest and true way [...]
I am so very lucky. Last year we planted 3 rose bushes on Mother’s day weekend in honor of me, Noah’s Ethiopian mom and Zoë’s Ethiopian mom. This year they bloomed for the first time last week. These roses represent life and the life that my children’s beautiful Ethiopian mothers have given to us. We [...]
A big shout of congratulations to Kevin, Stacie, and Micah. Baby Lia is now officially a Dixon. Congrats to you all and we can’t wait to meet little Lia when she comes home in June.
Adoption is part of our life. A huge part and talking about it is also part of our life. I have been too busy to pay much attention to what is going on in Haiti. I am not oblivious but without radio/npr in my car, I don’t get much news in my life–as well life [...]
those who have in any way been touched by AIDS. Today is World Aids Day, and I write in honor of the mothers around the world who see their only choice to give up their children while knowing they themselves are going to die. In the US, HIV/AIDS is not a death sentence. In the [...]
since we got to hold Noah as our son forever. Bill fought tooth and nail with the doctor at the hospital in Addis Ababa to keep Noah with us and not send him back to the hospital for one more night. What a journey it has been. Happy day Noah. We love you…
before I had to deal with one of the toughest questions I imagine will come my way. We were on our way to the park yesterday and we talked about playing with the other kids and this is what my 3-year-old (not every 3 1/2 yet) asked–”Mom, will the other kids think I am different [...]
Dear Noah, You are now 40-months-old. I know that means nothing to you–because you’re 3 and that’s a cool age. I think back to when you came home (not quite 3 years ago) and I am amazed at how you have flourished and grown. You and your sister have made me so happy to be [...]
