Monday, September 8, 2008

Great news

A couple of weeks ago we found out through the "friend grapevine" that a family who lives in our baby sitters neighborhood is adopting a 5 year old girl from Ethiopia. Her name is Tess. The principle at Helinas school emailed me today asking for permission to give our email address to this family so that they can contact us and find out about Helinas transition. All I have to say is YAY YAY YAY. We have several other families in our community who have adopted or are in the process of adopting from Ethiopia (BIG congrats go out to one of those families James and Nancy who just returned with their baby boy last Sat!!!). To have a little girl exactly Helinas age who will be in the same school system (and maybe even in the same class) is so awesome. I know that it is going to be so important as these kids get older for them to have others within this community that share their culture.

5 comments:

ellerbee eight said...

That is awesome news! Lucky!

Chris said...

YAY !! This is so great .

Rebecca said...

How GREAT! Wish we had some Ethiopian culture in our neighborhood!

Rebecca Lily said...

WOW! Awesome, Amy!!! I am so excited for you!!! And in our little town??? I guess we do have some culture after all... lol.

xoxo

Lisa said...

Hi Amy!

That is just wonderful news! It is amazing how things work out sometimes!