Welcome!

Admin · Admin Number of posts: 1 Registration date: 2006-10-08

I'd like your thoughts on how the board is set up, and any ideas for other categories.

dawn · Number of posts: 11 Registration date: 2006-10-09

Hi all, I'm Dawn, mom to one bio kid: Lily, age 6, and Dawit, age 4 (home from Ethiopia since 3/06)

Looking forward to getting to know you all!

karwar68 · Number of posts: 2 Registration date: 2006-10-09

Thanks so much for starting this, Dawn. I do like it. Do you think this will be popular with people? Will they remember it's here if they don't get an email in their inbox? Just wondering. I have used a tool very similar to this for work purposes. I do like them.

Karen Warren
Karen - mother of RT (Robinson Tesfahun) 15 mos. Came home Dec 2005.

dawn · Number of posts: 11 Registration date: 2006-10-09

Hi Karen! Well, I don't know how it will go. This format allows for more categories, and I find it easier to browse through than the email lists.

There is a feature (just below the preview) when you create a post that allows you to get an email when a reply is posted on a certain thread.

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Dawn
Mom to Dawit and Lily

karenb · Number of posts: 1 Registration date: 2006-10-11

Hi Dawn -

It was nice to meet you at the WHFC meeting last week. This is great! Very user oriented. Thanks for starting this!

Karen B.

dawn · Number of posts: 11 Registration date: 2006-10-09

Hi Karen! Nice to meet you, too.

Setting this up was the easy part, now we just need to see if there's interest and need.

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Dawn
Mom to Dawit and Lily

sarav · Number of posts: 12 Registration date: 2006-11-01

Hi there! I am Sara, Mom to Ryan, age 2.5. He came home to us from Korea on 10/14/04 so we just celebrated our 2nd Gotcha Day! Very Happy

I'm looking forward to watching this board develop.

jean · Number of posts: 1 Registration date: 2006-11-02

Hi, I'm Jean, mom to Adam (10 bio) and George ( 18 months domestic African- American)

This is a great idea! Thanks for starting this Dawn!

EndersUSA · Number of posts: 8 Age: 50 Registration date: 2006-11-02

Wow, it looks great Dawn, thanks for setting it up. I already bookmarked the site! I am Sandy Enders in East Haven and I have little Adam flower

who is 2yrs5mths. He is from Guatemala and he arrived home at 7mths in January05. Adam had minor ear problems with fluid and has had two sets of tubes be placed so he is a bit delayed in speech, but aside from that he is fine. He has over excelled in motor skills and social skills and his cognitive skills are good, so we are working on the speech with Birth to Three in CT (Hill Heath Center in New Haven). I hope to be a regular on the board. I work at home online so I have easy access to the Internet. I am 48 and Hubby (Mike) is 58. I also have two grown step-kids (Rebecca & Robert) who are in their late to mid twenties and reside in Indiana.

Sandy-Adams Mom

smartflicka · Number of posts: 2 Age: 39 Registration date: 2006-11-02

Hi All,

I am Laurie from Danbury, mother to our son, Reilly. Reilly, who is 16 months, came home to us from Korea on December 6, 2005.

Hope you had a wonderful Halloween with all of your kids. Reilly's first was a little boring, but he enjoyed walking around and playing in the leaves (he doesn't eat candy yet) in his Lion Costume.

This is a great forum! Dawn, if you're out there, thanks so much for providing us all with a connection to other Moms and Dads.

PS: I found a typo on the homepage. Introductions is spelled wrong.

cathy · Number of posts: 1 Registration date: 2006-11-02

Hi everyone! My name is Cathy and our son Elijah came home from Ethiopia 2/06. He is 13 months old now (time goes so fast!!) and we live in Tolland. My husband and I just started the paperwork for the next adoption. This was a great idea and I am looking forward to getting to know everyone.

dawn · Number of posts: 11 Registration date: 2006-10-09

Sara, welcome! glad you signed on!

Sandy, hope you can post a pic of Adam soon. We'd love to see him.

Laurie, welcome and thanks for editing my late-night typing. Wink

It'd be great to see your little lion, too.

Hi Cathy!!!! Nice to "see" you. (Cathy and I were in Ethiopia at the same time bringing our sons home!)

Cathryn · Number of posts: 1 Registration date: 2006-11-04

Hi everyone,

My husband and I have one son, Brendan, almost 4, adopted from Ufa, Russia at 14 months old. We live in Ellington, CT. We are in the process of adopting an 18 month old girl from the same area. We actually leave this coming Sunday for our first trip over there. We will have to go back sometime in Jan. or Feb. to bring Anna home. I'd love to hear from anyone who has adopted from Russia, especially from the Ufa region.

Also, a note to Cathy from Tolland. A friend of mine in Ellington is currently waiting for a referral of a child from Ethiopia. It has been an extremely long wait for her and I know she is getting anxious, but she enjoys talking to people about it. I think it really helps to talk to people who really have gone through the same things you have. It would be great to hear about your experience if you have a chance.

Thanks, Cathryn

sarav · Number of posts: 12 Registration date: 2006-11-01

Welcome Cathryn! My DH is from Ellington.