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the perfect space the perfect space this blog was created to chronicle our journey towards parenthood through ethiopian adoption now that our kids are home it serves as a space to explore and record life as a family of four if you feel compelled read along as we work to create the perfect space for our family pages home adoption milestones ethiopian court trip nov 7 27 contact i wanna have friends that i can trust that love me for the man i ve become not the man i was i wanna have friends that will let me be all alone when being alone is all that i need i wanna fit in to the perfect space feel natural and safe in a volatile place the avett brothers saturday february 2 2013 the easy one the two of you are min yin and my yang two exact opposites who somehow manage to complete our family in a manner that couldn t be more perfectly designed had it been intentional if your sibling is the yang fast hard solid focused hot dry and aggressive associated with fire sky and the sun then you are surely the yin slow soft yielding diffuse cold wet and passive associated with water earth and the moon over the last two years yang s transition to our family has had an intensity to match their fiery personality while your transition has been much more subtle and tranquil now though now that some of your sibling s fire is better channeled toward positive outlets and appropriate approaches you are finding your opportunity to use your voice to challenge injustices previously endured so as not to rock the boat to show the world and more importantly our family that while you are soft and yielding you have something to say too to test the waters and the promises that define our family at its core the day we arrived in addis ababa to finally become your new mommy and daddy forever as your friends shouted your name in recognition of our arrival you glanced up steadily and walked directly toward me you placed your hand in my hand and led me to the orphanage gate you never looked back that night our first night together you buried your face in my chest tucked your body into mine and fell fast asleep while stroking my arm your heart was wide open and i was your mommy really it was that simple you were the easy one now almost exactly two years later i sometimes get frustrated with your challenges i wonder why you have decided now after all this time to try and pull things that we would have never seen from you a year ago but then i remember you need your time too you ve been the easy one and you ve loyally and diligently carried out your role for two straight years now that your sibling is starting to build a true foundation to stand on you realize your time has come deep in your heart there is still doubt you still carry a profound fear that if you mess up big enough all of this will be over that we can t really be your family forever today you made your daddy cry he was crying with pride right alongside you as you wept into his shoulder after admitting with a clear and honest voice to your entire family that you knew you had messed up and caused others pain as your deep wails of fear and shame escaped your little soul your daddy and i basked in pride at your monumental accomplishment and wept alongside you as we felt your pain i suspect you will always be the easy one my pledge to you though is not to take that for granted my role as your mommy is not something i can take lightly you ve expressed clearly that you do not feel safe when there is yelling in the house i am the yeller and i have pushed you away with my volume on more than one occasion you are a thinker you want explanations and answers not heavy handed demands your heart remains wide open and as a result is more exposed and easily hurt but also available to give and receive volumes of love you need a slow and gentle approach and lots of hugs afterwards you still have big big hurts tucked away in the big heart of yours and i think you just may be ready to set some of them free or at least share them with us so we can help you manage their weight you may be the easy one but that doesn t mean i can sit back and enjoy the ride i must be as intentional with you as i am with your sibling just in a wholly opposite manner posted by dcorey at 9 39 pm 7 comments labels ashagre los angeles timkat 2013 because these belong here even if i posted them on fb weeks ago and because the kids both expressed how much it meant to them and because i don t want to forget the sense of validation they carried around in their strides and their smiles that day posted by dcorey at 9 35 pm no comments labels holidays wednesday january 16 2013 wordless wednesday more hair posted by dcorey at 11 24 am 3 comments wednesday january 9 2013 wordless wednesday punk rock posted by dcorey at 9 53 am 1 comment labels elsa hair monday january 7 2013 konjo not only did our friend roman share a wonderful gena celebration with us but she also dropped off a huge bag of dresses for elsa many of them are from ethiopia elsa was nearly levitating tonight as she tried each one on complete with an ethiopian head wrap and pranced out into the living room to show her daddy and ashagre they re not going to fit her for too long and there s so many of them i m inclined just to let her wear them all as she feels like it rather than saving them for some sort of special event what a wonderful gift and a konjo girl posted by dcorey at 8 13 pm 2 comments labels elsa sunday january 6 2013 melkam gena tonight we had the pleasure of joining a newish ethiopian friend for a gena celebration at her home in montecito one other adoptive family that we had never met but lives nearby was also invited we brought our friend roman also ethiopian and her daughter yenea the host had invited her two sisters and another ethiopian woman full feast coffee ceremony and then hour long ethiopian african dance party the host has lived all over africa the shoulder shaking was off the hook as was the hospitality my heart swelled as a watched my little girl shake it surrounded by a living room full of strong smart and beautiful ethiopian women powerful stuff for a little habesha girly so thankful for our new friends and such a warm and fun evening posted by dcorey at 9 14 pm 4 comments labels holidays monday december 31 2012 christmas with the cousins the big family christmas is coming to an end my sister her husband and kids flew home to hawaii yesterday and my parents fly out on wednesday school starts for the kids on thursday christmas with the cousins was amazing everything a christmas should be lots of family lots of laughs lots of fun cookie baking game playing present wrapping and unwrapping movie watching performances on the stage daddy built scooter and plasma car riding bowling rock climbing and the list goes on and guess what this is huge huge my kids have been totally regulated i m going to say that one more time my kids have been completely regulated our kiddo that struggles more with keeping regulated than the other has been for over a week and counting actively calming themselves down we have caught them separating themselves from the group for some quiet coloring time taking deep breaths and practicing extreme flexibility amongst the chaos and upended routines of ten people crammed into an 1 100 square foot house i can t express how proud i am there is no way this kiddo could have done this last christmas or probably even four months ago we have done little out of the ordinary to support our kids over the past week we did tons of front loading before family arrived and then we pretty much just let them go and they ve handled it they ve handled it beautifully i am so proud of them for the hard work and growth they ve been demonstrating i suspect we ll see some fallout when everyone finally flies off and we re back to our regular routine but i ll gladly put up with whatever fallout they throw at us after this past week and so with no further introduction i present way more christmas pictures than you d ever want to see exact same age cousins making ornaments for the tree baking cookies for santa one present each on christmas eve tracking santa on the computer twas the night before christmas rollin deep brothers in law sisters i never had cousins growing up before our family came out for the holidays brent remarked that some of his best childhood memories were of christmas time not the gifts or the tree or anything like that but the long days spent running with his cousins this year the kids anticipation for winter break and christmas was off the charts i m pretty sure they were not disappointed this year we made memories that will last a lifetime that s what christmas is all about posted by dcorey at 10 18 pm 4 comments labels a day in the life holidays older posts home subscribe to posts atom popular posts token in one week we have found little miss e s picture in two widespread media publications the city s quarterly newsletter an the easy one the two of you are min yin and my yang two exact opposites who somehow manage to complete our family in a manner that couldn t be more the road is not easy but the future is bright we are increasingly more different than we are the same and if we can all acknowledge that reality then maybe we can start solving multi colored flatulence so a candid and honest conversation among some members of our family confirmed what my gut has been telling me about this blog for quite som it s the subtle things when barack obama was elected the first black president of the united states some said that we had finally entered a post racial era in this there you are something big happened recently and i missed it just weeks ago our family was really struggling life was hard harder than i ever imagin chance encounters all three of us spotted him the moment he slipped through the restaurant s back entrance fortunately he made a detour to the bathroom name that kid prologue this post may come off as kind of tongue in cheek or worse off disrespectful of our son or the importance of names and naming b traumaversary many parents of children with traumatic pasts or kids from hard places as the euphemism among circles of adoptive parents goes fun while it lasted i am pretty darn proud of the kids halloween costumes last year we went to one of the big halloween megastores in town to look for a f authors brent dcorey followers time in the ethiopian capital addis ababa time total pageviews blog archive 2013 6 february 2 the easy one los angeles timkat 2013 january 4 2012 81 december 4 november 4 october 6 september 3 august 11 july 9 june 7 may 3 april 9 march 7 february 7 january 11 2011 144 december 15 november 13 october 12 september 11 august 13 july 15 june 15 may 14 april 10 march 7 february 10 january 9 2010 62 december 12 november 11 october 8 september 11 august 5 july 5 june 6 may 4 labels a conspicuous family a day in the life adoption process ahope sponsorship ashagre birthday letters elsa 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