Small World

We've come to find out through this whole adoption process that it really is a small world. Or, at least when it comes to adoption (especially from Ethiopia) it's a small world. When Abby and I started the adoption process we went online looking for stories, articles, and anything else that would help us out. One of the first blogs we found was for Silas. So as we got farther along with the process we would routinely check in with Silas and his family. Well, come to find out, Silas' father is a writer....and a really great writer. I wish I would have seen this article before I posted my last entry. He did an amazing job of putting into words what I was thinking.

As far as we knew, Silas and his family were just random people on the internet that happened to touch our lives -- even though they didn't know it. Then last week, our buddy Caden went to Oklahoma City with his parents to meet up with some other kids from Ethiopia. Come to find out, they met up with Silas' family. And they are all part of this Ethiopian Blog Union -- hopefully Abby and I will get to meet everyone this summer in Chicago when a group of Ethiopian Adoption Bloggers all get together. (Our new friends, Matt & Meredith, are part of this group too.) Like I said, it's a well connected group. We've said since we decide to adopt from Ethiopia that we feel like we have a better support group in place for a child coming to us from 7,990 miles away than if we would have had our own biological child. It's amazing how God works.

And speaking of amazing: A couple that is in our agency is in Addis Ababa right now getting their precious daughter, Tarik. Congratulations to Reed and Lee Ann! Can't wait to hear all about the journey. So the small world continues to get smaller.

I'm trying to get Abby to write about our weekend. Hopefully she'll soon be on here to tell you how she is running for Mayor of Springfield....as well as post the pictures of my Olympic trials. Stay tuned...