Backus/Wilcox Family History

We continue to choose the road less traveled. Our stories started in New York and Michigan. We took an detour to New Jersey, and had a most excellent adventure to Ethiopia. In July, 2013 we moved our family from Detroit to Texas. People can say a lot about us, but they can't accuse us of being boring....

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Fun Facts about Ethiopia

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Today is Thanksgiving 2010 - and at my aunt and uncles house I met someone who's friend adopted 2 boys this year from Ethiopia.  Her blo...
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Wednesday, November 24, 2010

AWESOME News for Thanksgiving

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After a LONG day at work I get home to receive another letter from Homeland Security - pretty scary under any other circumstance.  Well grea...
Tuesday, November 23, 2010

More waiting

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I know - this will be our life for months - rush, rush and more rush - only to wait!  But I did get my HR paperwork today only to have to ca...
Monday, November 22, 2010

TESTING

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This post is just a test - a test to see if I can post from an email.  Thanks to all that are following the blog - pass it around and hope t...
Saturday, November 20, 2010

Pictures of Ethipia

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This is what dinner in ET looks like- the platter is a bread - injera and you use that as your utensils.  You break the bread and eat with t...
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Ethiopian Flag

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USCIS Application letter

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YES!  We received the "official" letter from USCIS aka Homeland Security today - they received our application to get a Visa for t...
Friday, November 19, 2010

USCIS has report - November 17, 2010

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Well at about 1:30 pm this morning we recieved the much anticipated text message that the USCIS recieved our paperwork to start processing. ...

Still Waiting - November 16, 2010

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I'm sure this title will be famliar over the next number of months.  Still waiting to see if our USCIS Paperwork was accepted.  I filled...

USCIS paperwork mailed - November 9, 2010

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Well good news - Craig picked up the Home Study reports yesterday and we were able to get the USCIS paperwork into the mail today!  I just d...

Nate's first grade picture - NOv 7, 2010

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Well this is our son Nate - he's six and in the first grade.  This is his first grade school picture.  I was told to keep it - stain on ...

Home study is done - November 5, 2010

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Well unfortunately we didn't recognize the phone number on thursday when the agency called to tell us the home study report is done.  I ...

Home study - waiting for signatures - Nov 2, 2010

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Ok - lots of posts in one night - things are happening for some reason. I heard from our social worker - she put us down for 0-3 years of ...

New updates by courts - November 2, 2010

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Our agency sent some information this week on changes with the Ethiopian court systems.  I'm going to hang onto the fact we can probably...

Home Study report - November 1, 2010

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The home study report should be done soon.  We reviewed the draft last week and it will be done hopefully this week.  Found out tonight one ...
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