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Q + A Day!! Ask me anything about Adoption!

June 13, 2017 Teresa Swanstrom Anderson

The kids are all at VBS (Vacation Bible School) this week so I'm sitting here sans kids from 9-4 every day. I know...WHAAAAT?!

I've wanted to do this sort of Q + A for awhile but never knew when I could be accessible all throughout the day to answer all the questions.

Until now. YAY!

Did you get a chance to look through the post I shared yesterday? It's chock-full of adoption joys and struggles from through the years.

Anyway, let's get to it!

Ask away!!!

Take Joy,

Teresa

In Adoption Tags adoption, q and a, q + a, family, questions
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Writer, speaker, and busy mama of six

2 biological & 4 from Ethiopia

I have a fervent eagerness to build a place where we can get filled up, when we feel like all we do is pour out.

I do my best to be real and honest about life, our struggles, and how God stretches me through (so many) mistakes along the way.

May this be a place of nourishment for an everyday, beautiful life.

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Spent the day helping set up for Laith’s school’s auction and am all googley-eyed at the beginnings of @somethingstyledco’s floral crown making area!! . @teamanastasis...you SURE know how to throw a fundraiser!! 🌺🌿🌸
I was going to post about how my morning drink has helped my health so much. It’s a mixture of about 10 supplements: Everything from help for my leaky gut (so awesome), to thyroid, kidney, collagen, inflammation, circulation and more. . I used to gag when drinking it...but now I crave it. . I was going to talk about the importance of taking care of yourself in a healthy way... . But really all I can think about is... . What in the WORLD is wrong with my EYE?! 😂😂🤷🏼‍♀️
500 hours later, this is her “I’m SO over braids” face. 🤷🏼‍♀️😂😂 So thankful for friends who are willing to give up their evenings for a little beautification!
My first time out of the country was in 5th grade when I tagged along with my dad and some of his friends on a medical mission trip to Guatemala. . It changed my life forever because it burst the little bubble I didn’t realize I lived in. It opened my eyes to poverty and need and an entirely different culture I didn’t know existed. . I remember flying into a tiny remote village in the mountains on a rickety little Cessna piloted by a man named Ludin who worked for MAF (Mission Aviation Fellowship). I recall like it was yesterday, how livestock was cleared from the field as we dipped down to land, likely taxing over cow pies and who knows what else. . I remember being followed around by children who wanted to simply touch my hair because they’d never seen a blonde child and they thought I was magical. Their toys were dolls made of sticks and bits of fabric and instead of trucks, they played with rhinoceros beetles the size of my hand that had been preserved in formaldehyde. We woke every morning to the sound of roosters and walked downstairs for hot polenta pancakes set out on a veranda covered in bougainvillea before setting out for the clinic. . I was curious about everything so the team of doctors let me sit on the windowsill and watch surgeries as long as I was quiet and made me promise if I felt nauseous at any time, that I’d leave quickly and quietly so as not to disrupt the already nervous patients. Especially since some of them weren’t put all the way under because of lack of resources. . The goiter and tumor removals were the ones I remember most. Well, that and the smell of cauterized flesh as they worked. I realized sitting up there in the teal colored tiled windowsill that people in this beautiful country just south of mine didn’t have access to medical care like I did. . I thought since I was a child, there wasn’t much I could do to make a difference...all I could do it sit and watch the adults do their thing. . I was WRONG. . Head to the link in my profile for what I realized + what your kids can do NOW to be WORLD CHANGERS!
500 hours later, this is her “I’m SO over braids” face. 🤷🏼‍♀️😂😂 So thankful for friends who are willing to give up their evenings for a little beautification!
People ask us all the time when the right time is to take a child to a third-world-country. Want to know what I tell them? Head to the link in my profile (or swipe up in my Stories) for my thoughts... . @run.5050 @bonfire @healing_waters . 📷 @jessienicholeweddings

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Spent the day helping set up for Laith’s school’s auction and am all googley-eyed at the beginnings of @somethingstyledco’s floral crown making area!! . @teamanastasis...you SURE know how to throw a fundraiser!! 🌺🌿🌸
I was going to post about how my morning drink has helped my health so much. It’s a mixture of about 10 supplements: Everything from help for my leaky gut (so awesome), to thyroid, kidney, collagen, inflammation, circulation and more. . I used to gag when drinking it...but now I crave it. . I was going to talk about the importance of taking care of yourself in a healthy way... . But really all I can think about is... . What in the WORLD is wrong with my EYE?! 😂😂🤷🏼‍♀️
500 hours later, this is her “I’m SO over braids” face. 🤷🏼‍♀️😂😂 So thankful for friends who are willing to give up their evenings for a little beautification!
My first time out of the country was in 5th grade when I tagged along with my dad and some of his friends on a medical mission trip to Guatemala. . It changed my life forever because it burst the little bubble I didn’t realize I lived in. It opened my eyes to poverty and need and an entirely different culture I didn’t know existed. . I remember flying into a tiny remote village in the mountains on a rickety little Cessna piloted by a man named Ludin who worked for MAF (Mission Aviation Fellowship). I recall like it was yesterday, how livestock was cleared from the field as we dipped down to land, likely taxing over cow pies and who knows what else. . I remember being followed around by children who wanted to simply touch my hair because they’d never seen a blonde child and they thought I was magical. Their toys were dolls made of sticks and bits of fabric and instead of trucks, they played with rhinoceros beetles the size of my hand that had been preserved in formaldehyde. We woke every morning to the sound of roosters and walked downstairs for hot polenta pancakes set out on a veranda covered in bougainvillea before setting out for the clinic. . I was curious about everything so the team of doctors let me sit on the windowsill and watch surgeries as long as I was quiet and made me promise if I felt nauseous at any time, that I’d leave quickly and quietly so as not to disrupt the already nervous patients. Especially since some of them weren’t put all the way under because of lack of resources. . The goiter and tumor removals were the ones I remember most. Well, that and the smell of cauterized flesh as they worked. I realized sitting up there in the teal colored tiled windowsill that people in this beautiful country just south of mine didn’t have access to medical care like I did. . I thought since I was a child, there wasn’t much I could do to make a difference...all I could do it sit and watch the adults do their thing. . I was WRONG. . Head to the link in my profile for what I realized + what your kids can do NOW to be WORLD CHANGERS!
500 hours later, this is her “I’m SO over braids” face. 🤷🏼‍♀️😂😂 So thankful for friends who are willing to give up their evenings for a little beautification!
People ask us all the time when the right time is to take a child to a third-world-country. Want to know what I tell them? Head to the link in my profile (or swipe up in my Stories) for my thoughts... . @run.5050 @bonfire @healing_waters . 📷 @jessienicholeweddings

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