Our story!!

So I know that we have some new readers who may not be privy to exactly all of our family story so I am going to recap EVERYTHING for everyone! Warning, super long post!!
Okay so I am Miranda, 19 years old, International business major with a minor in Italian. What can you do what that you ask? I don't really know.. I was hoping to work for some super luxe food importer like Dean and Deluca but now I feel my heart may be lead another way. I know that I definitely will go spend a year or so working in Ethiopia doing whatever I can after I graduate. I tell everyone that at age 25 I will be coming back with a sibling set of 3!
My mommy is Grace, a wonderful lady is an Occupational Therapist, who owns her own rehab company that works in different nursing homes doing therapy. She now is a partner with our AMAZING adoption agency Hope, and helps out mainly with any questions, signing up new people and handing out referrals!
We live in Lubbock, Texas and it is a little less diverse than I would ideally want for my sisters but I love it here! We have been here since I was 7!!
It has always been me and my mom. She was married while I was in middle school but the two divorced a while back, so except for that always just us girls. This summer we were in Spain and the most exciting part to us was looking at all the babies and children. We realized that hey, maybe it was time to add to the family! We started researching and soon decided on Ethiopia because one can just tell how much that country loves their children. We decided on Hope agency sometime in late June. Also for anyone wondering on the name of my blog, we used to have 4 girl dogs and all of them were sister something-- Sister fast, Sister fat, Sister Little and the oldest was Sister mom. I stole her name because I knew I wasn't just going to be my sister's sister.. I was going to be something a little bit more special! Can you tell we had too much time before Addy came home...

ROAD TRIP!

Today we take Addy's first official road trip. We are going to see our Grammy! She lives about three hours away so we are hopefully that Addis will be okay with the journey. Grandma is so so so excited to show of Addy to everyone in her town. This is from the lady who wasn't sure about the adoption. On another note, BARACK OBAMA is coming to Lubbock. We are so excited because even if you don't believe in his politics, it is amazing what he stands for in this country! Off to see Grammy more pictures later!!!

Dear Addis,
Please stop pooping on me.
Thanks, your sister

What a difference a month makes!

Mohawk!

Someone's hair is long enough to actually style and put it into a real Mohawk. Let's just say she is officially the coolest girl ever!

Fikir

Uh oh it's official. I am completely enamored by Addis. While we were waiting to go get her I always thought, "There is no way I can ever love anyone as much as my Mom, maybe in 20 years I'll love Fitsum that much but no way I will right away". Well the first day I saw her, I loved her more than anyone else but my Mommy and Grandma. And well last night, I realized that some time in the last month she got up to Mommy status. If she could learn to sleep 10 hours a night and change her own diapers I think Mom wouldn't even be in the running! Juuust Kidding. I can't wait to go get Genevieve and add someone else to love this much it's so much fun!