Adoption News

These are "A"s cute little Swedish shoes from Mama Bargains (thanks Maria!). Now if I could just put his little feet in them I'd be one happy chica.

I did talk to Christy today, and she gave me my court date (#1, which we're supposed to assume we will not pass and then need #2 about 6 weeks later). Unfortunately my court date isn't until February 10th, which is a few weeks later than I was expecting. Best case scenario we're talking March for travel.

She also gave me a little update on the measles situation. There are two babies with the measles at Hannah's Hope right now, apparently they get a bout of measles about once a year. So I looked up measles, and it pretty much sucks to get (think chicken pox on steroids). I really hope "A" doesn't get them, but the transmission rate is like 90% within a household so the chances aren't great. Poor babies, no fun at all.

And speaking of no fun, I picked up "A"s first prescriptions today, the travel meds. Does this look like $150 worth of pharmacy to you? And it's all generic, DANG!

I just hope we don't have to use the one with the instructions that read "apply from the neck down and rinse off after 8-14 hours". Eew!

I asked Christy about these too and she said anything in your travel meds that you find out you don't need would be great to leave at the orphanage. I hope I can leave all of this stuff there. Little "A" needed one of these items when he came to Hannah's Hope, I wonder if some family that traveled this spring left it for him. Thank you!!

And speaking of stuff they need at the orphanage...the answer is FORMULA!!! With the downturn in the Ethiopian economy the importation of formula basically stopped (and we think it sucks around here when the economy goes in the crapper). So there is NO formula to be had in Ethiopia. All of it is coming from traveling families. Well that's great for our little orphanage, but there are a whole lot of bigger orphanages without adoptions bringing traveling families with supplies. The orphanages that the kids at HH started out in for example, like Enat Alem and Bethzatha. If they don't get formula, these kids will starve to death. Karen posted a video from when they visited Enat Alem, here. (Go watch it). So if you would like to donate some formula (Soy based please), let me know and I will gladly route it along with the next traveling family so Almaz can spread the love around.