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Wednesday, December 23, 2009
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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau
Now put foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau
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Adoption Timeline
- Dec.3, 2009 - Dossier is sent to the Haitian Embassy
- Nov.30, 2009 - Officially decided not to proceed with Imagine and Ethiopia
- Nov.19, 2009 - Dossier back to provincal office to be sent out to Haitian embassy
- Nov.10, 2009 - received Homestudy approval
- Oct.21, 2009 - Homestudy complete and sent in for provincial approval
- Sept.13, 2009 - Decision to proceed with an adoption from Haiti Children's home
- August, 2009 - We are made aware of the children in Haiti Children's Home waiting for families
- July 13, 2009 - Imagine adoption goes bankrupt
- Dec.27/08 - our Dossier arrives in Addis Ababa, we are officially expecting
- Dec.9/08 - home study approved by the Government of Alberta
- Nov.3/08 - signed homestudy report arrives at Anne Scully's office awaiting provincial approval
- Oct.12/08 (Thanksgiving Sunday) - signed our completed Homestudy report
- Oct.8/08 - sent in all the required paperwork for our Dossier to Imagine adoption (except the Homestudy)
- Sept.17/08 - application sent in to our Ethiopian adoption coordinator, Imagine adoption
- Sept.13/08 - first visit by our social worker for our Homestudy
- Sept.6/08 - attended International Adoption Seminar
- Aug.22/08 - adoption application to C.A.S
countdown to adopt
desiderata - by max ehrmann
Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant, they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism. Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love, for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is perennial as the grass.
Take kindly to the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul.
With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.
Max Ehrmann c.1920
Good words...
- The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can. ~Robert Cushing
- We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers. ~Seneca
Quotes by Maya Angelou
- Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
- If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.
- If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
- I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- You shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back. ~Maya Angelou
