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....

Sunday, July 24, 2011

Our agency

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Our agency is just really awesome - to actually respond to things on a weekend and help us out through all the craziness - NOT many if any w...
Saturday, July 23, 2011

anonymous commenter

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to the anonymous commenter - I"d love to talk to you privately - please email me at gmbackus@hotmail.com  I'd like to find out wher...
Thursday, July 21, 2011

Ugh- not good

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Ok- just read another blog - so to have court you must have a letter from the government agency - if its not there, the judge still sees you...
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More confusion with closures

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Ok- I found this new blog -  http://etorphanage.blogspot.com/  - it lists a lot of the agencies communications - pretty scary - sounds like ...
Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Referral and K updates -he'd be 11 months today

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Well the other family and I heard from the agency today - they have sent an agency rep that is in country (any agency must have offices and ...
Tuesday, July 19, 2011

New term - adoption miscarriage

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All thank you for the prayers, thoughts, you name it - I can't express how much it helps.  As two friends have told me today - this is ...
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Monday, July 18, 2011

Loss of our referral - please pray

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Hi all - well sad news today - the ET gov't is shutting down MORE orphanages  15 in the last few days.  Well one is from the south where...
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Saturday, July 16, 2011

useful info for all ET adoption and travel - another blog

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Just a good blog I found - it looks like its pretty public - so hopefully they don't mind - if they do - sorry and let me know - but the...
Wednesday, July 13, 2011

15 letters / day????

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Well I don't know 100% sure yet - but I saw some yahoo group posts that it may be true - but again - NOT confirmed - but I hear that MOW...
Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Immunizations to travel - HELP

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Ok - we need help or advice - we must have a few immunizations before we travel - I"m getting conflicting information from all sorts o...
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Saturday, July 09, 2011

Happy Birthday to Nate - my big 7 year old

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Wow - he's actually 7 today - I can't believe it - technically not till about 6:28 pm tonight - but still.  try explaining THAT to a...
Thursday, July 07, 2011

Test

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Testing........ I noticed that the blog wasn't feeding through to Facebook, so I made a change and wanted to see if it would work. C...
Wednesday, July 06, 2011

Fresh Air Children - they need your assistance

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All Craig and I were contacted by Fresh Air Children- its an organization that allows kids from a city to go stay in the country to get fr...
Sunday, July 03, 2011

what's in a name

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wow - why is it so hard to choose a name for our little guy.  Not sure why its so hard  - we had names picked out if we had gotten pg on our...
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Friday, July 01, 2011

June Updates from AAIi

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June Updates - amazing.  So I know us and one other person announced their acceptance of a referral - not sure who the other families are - ...
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