March 30, 2011  Wednesday  7am We went to bed last night at 11pm.  Once again, I thought I would sleep normally.  I woke at 4am and have been awake ever since.  Matt is still asleep.  Thats good.  Up to now, I have probably had better sleep than he has.  So I spent some time praying […]

March 29, 2011  4pm So.  Yesterday  we left off after our meeting with Tarikua, the birth mother.  Tarikua means my history or my story.  Jonas tells us people will name their children something that means something about what is going on in that mothers life at that time.  Very similar to the way the names […]

The full wall sign right as we walked into the airport from the tarmac. March 28, 2011 Well.  I guess I didn’t know what a whirlwind was until today happened.  I did get 2 hours of sleep last night on the plane and I have stayed up all day (we landed at 9am Ethiopia time) […]

The next several posts to come are the emails I wrote to family and friends while we were on our trip to Ethiopia in March 2011.  Pictures are now added. March 26, 2011 Dear Family and Friends, These emails are going to serve as a journal of this trip to Ethiopia.  Im sending this to […]