Entering the World of "MYSPACE"

My very dear and best friend Claire has felt our crunch when it comes to the $$$$ necessary for the international fees for the girls. We have to have ALL that $$$ together when we send the dossier to Ethiopia. And we can't get on the "waiting for referral" list until our dossier has arrived in Ethiopia. SOOOO, she has put it upon herself to help get the word out that we are needing support. She has started a "my space" for our adoption. It is devoted to the info of the adoption with hope that people will follow it, pray and support us. She feels (and i believe her) that more people follow myspaces than they do "blogspots". SO, you can find us here, OR at
http://www.myspace.com/klepacadoption, OR at http://klepacadoptionfund.blogspot.com/. Whichever site you choose to follow i will continue to try and report on all the latest news with the adoption.

Isaac and I had to drive to Charlotte yesterday in order to get our fingerprinting done. I'm not sure why exactly but everyone that has anything to do with Citizenship and Immigration Services has to go to the nearest CIS office (in this case it was Charlotte). I tried not to whine to the woman doing my fingerprinting but she did remark that some people had to drive 7 to 10 hours to get to the Charlotte office. At that point I became very thankful; we only had to drive 2 hours to get to Charlotte!!!

I am almost finished reading the most IMPACTING book, in regards to our Ethiopian adoption, that I have ever read. I am sure many of you have heard of it, if not read it already. It is titled "There is No Me Without You" and it is written by Melissa Fay Greeene. It was published only late last year and chronicles one Ethiopian woman's quest to save a "generation" of AIDS orphans in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. I have felt a weight come on me in reading the book. Although we are not adopting girls who have AIDS (no children with the disease are open to adoption) I have felt (in reading this book) a joy in the calling God has given our family to come to the rescue of victims of the terrible disease. My eyes were opened by this book to the history and culture of Ethiopia, the orphans and the AIDS epidemic. I can only highly recommend it to all and hope that you take the time to read it.