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, June 30, 2011

One week ago

Yep - just been one week since I saw Karesso's beautiful little face - man I can't wait to hold him and kiss those chubby little che...

Sunday, June 26, 2011

THE Call - yes THE CALL

Ok - I just can't contain myself any longer! THE CALL came at about 4:30 pm on Thursday - June 23, 2011. I didn't have my personal...

Monday, June 20, 2011

confirmation from AAI - leads to this emotional post

Update from AAI - sounds like good news and confirmed MOWA letters - MOWA = MOWYCA (new name) Positive thinking and positive thoughts - j...

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

good news on processing in country- updated

NOT a fact I've verified yet - but I did see a posting today that said that MOWA is increasing letters per day by 5 - so from 5 to 10 l...

Monday, June 13, 2011

Moving on up - #8

Wow - I heard one family accepted a referral of a little girl - so that means we're number 8 now! Yikes. The #1 family I think wanted ...

Sunday, June 05, 2011

Nesting a little

I guess you could say I've started the adoption nesting more formally - even though we don't have a referral just yet. Nate's b...

Wednesday, June 01, 2011

blog should be open and availabl

Ok - blog should be open again - please email at gmbackus@hotmail.com if you are having issues GAil

password - NOT set up

FYI - sorry all I couldn't get it to work so you can STILL read the blog - if I change it - I"ll get people's emails. I'll...

#9- yes single digits PLUS updates!

OK - yes we are now officially #9 on the wait list! Its just purely amazing! We saw the May stat's from our agency AAI today. They ar...

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

passwords

Ok - can't get it set up to invite the followers - so we'll work on it - but shouldn't be able to view if you search for us - so...

going password protected

All - for the time being we're gonna need to protect this blog and make it password protected - the password will be Backus and log in ...

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Baby A

Oh blessed news - baby A we had to turn down a few weeks ago -he's been found a home! and with another sibling from ET as well! I'...

Update on referrals

Well it appears more referrals are coming out - two families accepted referrals for two kids each this week! So very exciting. I'm so ...

Saturday, May 14, 2011

Moving on up the list

Well we are still moving on up the waiting list. I"m not exactly sure where we're at now - but we started out at 20 and I think we...

Tuesday, May 03, 2011

a sad day - saying no to a referral

well I think I posted a week or so ago about a little boy that was emailed to our agency - anyhow that referral came up for Craig and I! An...

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