Sprout

This blog has moved to a more private place.
If you want to keep reading, please leave a comment here with your email address (must have that), and I will send you the information about where to find me. Please tell me who you are, and if you blog publicly, your URL....

PLEASE note: If you do not leave an email address (or email it to me) I cannot make you an authorized reader!
**ALSO, I'm happy to invite lurkers - please de-lurk and let me know who you are (and where you blog, if you do)**
I’m going to make this blog private for some period – at least until I get through court and my adoption of the Sprout is final and binding in Ethiopia....

"Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love."
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr....

So, most of you have heard the recent uproar about a family who was in the process of adopting from Ethiopia, and had their adoption terminated by the Ethiopian government because of their blog.
They had posted photos of their referred child (which is against Ethiopian law, as I now know) and were doing extensive fundraising, including lots of negative description of the conditions of orphans in Ethiopia. The Ethiopian government took the position...