Wednesday of the Trip (part 1)

Wednesday would turn out to be a very busy day. It was also on this day that Mesfin helped me in a tremendous way solve a problem that I hear Mommies deal with all the time. Namely, what to do with the kids when you’re trying to take a shower and get ready in the morning. It turned out that Mesfin’s is a very food motivated young man, so much so that all you have to do is put a bottle within arm’s reach and he’ll grab and start drinking away. So I laid out a blanket in the bathroom and made him a bottle which luckily kept him happily occupied for the duration of a shower and getting dressed each morning, which was very nice. After getting ready we would go upstairs for breakfast each morning. The food was very good, at least the part I got to eat that Mesfin didn’t.

Our first activity of the day was to go to one of the Gladney Foster Care houses for a traditional Coffee Ceremony. It was here we got meet the other families adopting through Gladney. There was Peggy, Chris, Jess, Wendy, McKay, Stephanie and of course Mike and Amy who rode over with me from the Bejoe house. Also while we were here we got to meet some of Mesfin’s caregivers and nannies, who as soon as they saw him, whisked him away and promptly dressed him in more appropriate Ethiopian attire which you have probably already seen on the blog. They were wonderful and you could tell in their faces and Mesfin’s that there was a huge amount of love and happiness shared between them.

Stay tuned for the coffee ceremony.......( I Have no idea why the font is screwed up)