How do you measure time?  As a mom, it is marked by the milestones and growth of my children and family.  It has been about a year and a half since Abenezer joined our family.  I remember vividly the questions I had weeks before I went to pick him up.  What would he be like?  [...]

Editor’s Note: While the series is called 1 Year Out, this great family is actually two years out…but you get the point! Adoption is a roller coaster.  International adoption takes the roller coaster and removes the handlebars and seatbelts and makes the hills bigger.  Not only are you encouraged to let go and relinquish control [...]

1. Tell us a little bit about your family and how you came to adopt from Ethiopia. We are Angela and Scott, we’ve been married 10 years.  We adopted our daughter Ella from China in 2004, the process was long and difficult for us because of several roadblocks, while we prepped paperwork we kept saying [...]

Okay…this is not EthiopiaKids.com culture camp, but a group in Ohio called Ethiopia Kids.  It’s a great opportunity for families who have adopted children from Ethiopia or other who are connected to Ethiopia to get together, learn about Ethiopia, to get to know one another, to have fun and to share experiences.  The camp is August [...]

A group of Ethiopian adoptive families in Annapolis, Maryland is organizing their fourth family picnic for this summer.  July 19th the families will gather at Sandy Point State Park, which has a beach on the Chesapeake Bay.  The picnic lasts from 11 to 4.  There will be a rented pavilion and drinks are provided, but [...]