Even though Ella was not born in Gyumri, she spent the first six years of her life there in the orphanage. She had many friends in Armenia and remembers them clearly. Recently, we had the chance to reunite Ella with one of those friends and also visit with another little girl who lived at the orphanage, but was adopted at a very young age and does not remember Ella (even though we have a photo of these two kiddos sitting together in a crib).
A cabin in the way out woods was the perfect, calm, relaxing setting to to let the girls spend time together and to enjoy the company of other adoptive parents who are very dear to me.
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| Gyumri Girls |
The kids pretty much loved the outdoors, roaming the woods and sitting around the campfire.
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| Bouquets picked for their mothers |
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| The trees were a patient audience for Rex's musical stylings |
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| Smores and hotdogs and apple cider around the fire |
I am thankful for this special time with friends who share a similar path and understand what this journey is about. I also appreciate deeply the significance of Ella's past and the opportunity to keep her connected to those who knew and loved her before we did.
How lucky you all came together at this point in your lives (although luck is truly not the right word...it was already written in the stars.) It was good you followed your hearts.
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