Named After Mexico

life with Soon to be 7 kids and a beautiful Husband

9 is the magic number May 14, 2008

Today was an amazing beautiful day after months and months of not so patiently waiting to be the “legal” parents of
Emmanuel Challa Joseph and Solomon Mulugeta (TBA) , we went to court in Ethiopia at around 4:00AM our time
we woke to obvious anxiousness and anticipation as we waited by all three of our phones and both computers for the
call from our agency, the second I stepped away from the computer at 11:39 AM, we got the e-mail at 11:41 from the agency saying
we had passed and now we are indicated on their birth certificates as their PARENTS, I didn’t know this yet.
D came pounding up the stairs in his gardening clogs he had a freaked out panicked look in his eyes, but when I glanced at the $30 dollar
bottle of champagne in his hand I knew it must be good, he grabbed me and started bawling.
We decided on a bottle of sparkling lemonade instead, and Liam mentioned that he was going to be drunk because D poured him two glasses
of what he thought was champagne!
Today we didn’t get much done since our minds and hearts have left here and are in Ethiopia now.
Thanks be to God for this wonderful adventure and for bringing us Solomon and Emmanuel.
They look like such sweet boys and I can’t wait to be their mommy.
Thanks for all of your support and encouragement, we have been waiting 18 mo’s for this day!

 

God is so Good May 14, 2008

Filed under: International Adoption, Mothering, adoption, large families, life, love — emmelia @ 5:09 am

We passed court today, we are the legal parents of two beautiful amazingly cute baby boys, Glory to God Solomon Mulugeta 7mo and Emmanuel Challa Joseph 21 mo.
Today is the best day ever, God knew I couldn’t take any more waiting for these sweet boys, my heart is in Ethiopia with them now.
Praise and thanks be to God. I want to write more later

 

Killing me May 13, 2008

Filed under: Mothering, adoption, large families, love — emmelia @ 5:44 pm

I’m on edge I’ve been up all night, thinking about our case going to court at like 4 in the morning.
I think we should find out in an hour or so if we passed court in Ethiopia.
Then I can legally post photos of our two sons!!

 

I want my Babies Home May 2, 2008

Filed under: Mothering, adoption, large families, life, love — emmelia @ 1:22 am

12 more days till court May 13th if we pass we are going to have the biggest feast ever!!

 

New court date April 23, 2008

Filed under: International Adoption, Mothering, adoption, inspire, large families, life, travel — emmelia @ 4:26 pm

I found this beautiful quote:
“If you want to show someone you love them, listen to them .” “It applies across the board, from children, to friends, to enemies, to family, to God.”

We have a NEW court date of May 13th 2o days away! Yes I am so excited I can’t stand it.
Projected travel if we pass court would be around the middle of June.

 

Can this month be over April 20, 2008

Can this month be over and then the next and then a couple of weeks,
come on now get ready get set get over.
So word is Emmanuel is a winer and cry’s when he’s not being held or paid attention too, um ya I would be sad too if I got taken away from all I knew and loved and lived with tons of screaming babies with no parents in sight, for almost a year, God only knows how much I just can’t contain myself from getting on a plane when I heard that and running and picking him up and taking him home as soon as I could, my heart can hardly contain the love I feel for these boys.
Nite Nite
XO

 

Colonic bliss April 16, 2008

Oh my gosh I never knew that Colonics are amazing I feel so good right now, it was a great way to get over a totally shit*y week with more crap!
I have four more colonics lined up for the next month and I am on a crazy cleanse thing I can’t wait to see what’s going to happen, my stomach went even more down and I just feel amazing, the therapist is awesome and she is a believer as well.
This is too good to be true.
We got a report of Emmanuel and Solomon today on their current health, Emmanuel weighs 17.2 lb. versus 15.4, and Solomon weighs 12 lb. versus 10 less then a month ago.
I figured we will be traveling in less then 10 weeks if everything goes well….please God I can’t take any more waiting, I am going to make a count down starting a 65 days I pray we will travel before then that feels like eternity.

 

You can’t take the hillabilly outa me March 25, 2008

Jude is four today, I slept way too late all these parties are crazy. I have been thinking of inspiring things to write about but when it comes down to it my mind is jacked. things I’m inspired by lately loud music, parasite cleansing( with loud music) trying to figure this life out, blaring the music in our house, watching documentaries, hiking up huge mountains, purging my home of excess things, reconnecting with those I’ve lost, shocking myself with a zapper thanks to the Wignals, I love looking at the trees come to life all around us, oh and Ethiopian food I feel like a part of me was missing all these years without it, it truly brings me a culinary joy that I never had. spiced butter lights up my kitchen.
As I grow older I realize I am more and more comfortable in my own skin, I realize I have so much growth to go, and that I truly love to swear and I regret it every time realizing I like it too much and now I need to go to confession and tell the same sins over and over, which is so hard, I am yet to like confession.
I never ment this blog to obsess about myself but for some reason its helped me to confide in myself with the watchful eye of those I love watching.
As ever I come back to adoption I am at standstill, I am anxious but not, I am weary but strong.
I am ready but not, I am never black or white I am a little of both.
This time of year it never fails, I want to be in Europe, Paris stole my heart the last time I was there, that city has a little piece of my heart, the weeks we spent there the friends the FOOD the city the night sky, the experiences that we went through being there, and then there’s southern Italy what a dream, I am so thankful for the 9 weeks we spent there.
I need to be living a less then ordinary life, I thrive in experiances and passion. its hard being “tied” to a house to a dream, I know its the stability that we need right now, but its a lot, we have FOUR bathrooms I have sanctioned off a part of the house that we just don’t use cause I don’t wanna clean it, In other times I feel very very content here, but I know this is not all that life is about, I guess it good to not be tied down to a place, sometimes I feel like how in the heck did I get here with a “Mcmansion”, the happiest times of my life were when we were living in our van heading for an unknown destination in the middle of Mexico, traveling the country with a bunch of close and not so close friends in a double decker bus experiencing what its like to be in the spot light as “rock stars” ha!,living in converted garage in my parents home with four kids sleeping on the ground those were happy and simple times, times I never want to forget.
What I really want is to have this be our home base and be free to get parasites robbed and dengue fever on any continent we please!!
I’m probably going to regret writing all this, I just downed a huge glass of wine and had a major hot bath so blame it on that!

 

Parasites..Lovely things March 19, 2008

Three things to kill them:
Garlic, tons of it at all times of the day fresh, pill form any type! I add honey and break open the capsules for the wee ones.
Neem powder, I made my own capsules, you can use this for lice as well, I have some neem oil and shampoo in case we ever get lice again.
Grapefruit seed extract, taken with orange juice is the best way to not taste it, its pretty bitter 15-20 drops 3-4x a day.
there are other things that help but these are all safe and effective.
Clove powder fresh, black walnut supplement.
There are other things but I am too tired to research them more and write.

 

Lets party March 18, 2008

We are in Group E.. as in Emmanuel, I am so happy I could scream, we found this out yesterday, right after finding out we thought Hope had some sort of parasite maybe picked up in Mexico or at the big kids school, well I ended up washing 7 beds worth of bedding and tons of towels plus all the laundry from the weekend I did laundry with both washers running and both dryers all morning till I went to bed at 12.00, we all took the medication at the same second and ate garlic all day long, we had garlic swallowing competitions and I made up this paste of Honey and garlic for the little ones, I rewarded them with gummy bears, Hope the main person I wanted taking the garlic would not have it she knew I was feeding her something wrong she just wanted the gummy bears she says this new thing “No mama” with the cutest most made her mind up voice. Oh and talked about traumatized she saw me bagging up the dolls and stuffed animals in garbage bags and she just knew I was throwing them away , I put them in the basement to de contaminate, she was screaming NOOOOOOOOOO with the bloody murder scream and then she would only go to Anna I was this horrible person to her.
On Saturday we had a big party with about 30 people, old friends mostly from our “old days” we had a really great time, it was crazy here, our kids were causing most of the craziness, Symeon( Coco) came out with a hatchet cause they were playing army..duh..
and Basil was walking around with a box cutter razor thing the razor was gone but the others thought it was still there and he wouldn’t give it to anyone( cause he knew they were all crazy to think he had a razor).
I made Ethiopian food, it turned out really good I think, I was happy with it. Some of our friends had been on a raw food diet for a couple of months and they broke their fast on it, thank goodness I bought organic meat.
We had a bonfire and one of our new friends roasted the Ethiopian coffee by hand for us.
The kids danced in the living room and the dads and guys smoked cigars by the fire, the sunset was amazing too so that was cool.
D bought a bunch of tulips and everyone brought different drinks and appetizers.
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