by Kathleen Marshall | Nov 15, 2016 | Mayhem, Wanderlust
“So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. And remember that life’s A Great Balancing Act. ― Dr. Seuss, Oh, The Places You’ll Go! Life is a great balancing act; maintaining balance between work and play, risk and reward, sanity and insanity...
by Kathleen Marshall | Nov 9, 2016 | Adoption
Change course, surrender, redirect our energy, accept defeat. Whatever spin you want to put on it, the bottom line is that we are no longer attempting to adopt from Thailand. All our efforts and all our money has led to nothing but thicker skin, lessons learned, and a...
by Kathleen Marshall | Nov 4, 2016 | Wanderlust
Siem Reap and Angkor Wat are on bucket lists of Wandering families around the world. While we are living so close we had to make sure we checked it off of our list, but we were concerned about the kids appreciating and safely enjoying the ruins. So we waited; we...
by Kathleen Marshall | Oct 21, 2016 | Adoption
International Adoption We failed in our 1st attempt at international adoption. In doing so we talked to hundreds of people, some who succeeded and some who failed. What we learned is that, while luck and timing have a lot to do with many successes and failures,...
by Kathleen Marshall | Oct 18, 2016 | Adoption
“I think it may be time to pull the plug on the Thailand adoption” ”This is not possible” ”Sorry, CAN NOT!” These lovely quotes are all things that our two adoption providers have said to us in the last few months as we have attempted to adopt “internationally” from...
