This (in the green scarf) is the girl that stole my heart. She is beautiful and she has a story to tell. She is bilingual. She is a dancer. She is a singer. She is a deep thinker. She knows who she is. She plans to become a doctor one day. This is the future of Ethiopia. This is the face of HOPE.

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do you see the heart?

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This is one of the buildings at the detention center. Strangely beautiful.

rehabilitation center in Ethiopia

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I have much to share about the rehabilitation center (detention center). Here is your first glimpse . . .

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Missing Ethiopia

Ethiopia: Day 1

Home from Ethiopia

Ethiopia bound tomorrow!

Our team heads out in 3 days!

Deep conversations with an almost 2 year old

T and I had some snuggle time with books this morning. I thought that it might be a good time to let her in on the fact that mommy would be going on a long trip (seeing as how the trip is only 1 week away). I have held off on telling her because I didn’t want to tell her too much or tell her too soon. She is only 21 months old, after all. She wanted to look at her picture book and there was a picture of an airplane on one of the pages. Perfect!

Me (pointing to the airplane): What is that, T?

T: A ferry boat!

Me: No, silly . . . that’s an airplane!

T: Oh yeah! Funny airplane!

Me: Mommy is going to go on an airplane pretty soon.

T: I wanna come with you.

Me: Well, just mommy is going this time. Mommy is going on a big trip, but Auntie Amy will stay and play with you – okay?

T: I wanna see Auntie Amy.

Me: You will get to see Auntie Amy LOTS while Mommy is bye- bye. Okay?

T: Otay . . . I want some oatmeal.

I tried. ☺

I am going to miss this little princess SO much!

Donation Meetup

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“I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.”
Helen Keller

Amen

Love is the key to the solution of the problems of the world. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Nobel Prize lecture, 11 December 1968

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU DR. KING