Welcome to part 2 of many; we will be traveling to China in 2010 to adopt our 4th child ( 2nd adopted child). We are adopting a boy with a cleft lip and palate from Nanning City (south China); bi-lateral CL./CP.
In part 2 we discuss budget, CL and CP details, his american name, and sending a package to ZongPei
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Welcome to part 1 of many; we will be traveling to China in 2010 to adopt our 4th child ( 2nd adopted child). We are adopting a boy with a cleft lip and palate from Nanning City (south China); bi-lateral CL./CP.
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the first part of my Adoption story can be watched here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IdPtGZ-3oM
this video, chapter 2, offers a brief glimpse into the realm of my post-placement emotions- every one of them has been raw, real and incredible! It has been one year and one week since placement day and it has been an adventure, with high ups, low downs, and everything in between. I wouldn’t change it for anything! The song is Hardest For Me, by Michael Mclean
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In upgrading to my newest version of Pinnacle STudio (from 10 to 11 Ultimate) I found I could no longer access any of the movies I had created with ver 10. Something that I think Pinnacle STudio needs to address. However, I had to re-create our Adoption video, which was extremeley difficult (I have been working on doing so since early this summer). It was difficult not because the program is hard to learn (it is quite easy to use and fairly intuitive) but because there has been so little time to mess with my computer.
Anyway, I wanted to redo the video, and I have used some of Studio 11 Ultimate’s new features. I’m really pleased with the results, and I have learned a lot more about video editing and using the program by taking some extra time to redo the video.
I use the same music, but have added different transitions, extra pictures and extra video clips. I don’t know how it will compare to the other two – but I’m now going to have to recreate a lot of other videos at home (which – not to worry – I’m not going to reload them!) but it will cut down on the time I have for creating new stuff. I’ll try to squeeze the new in here and there. But this video turned out so good (at least in my opinion) that I had to put it up on my channel.
Yeah, you could say I impressed myself. LOL! Not hard to do, though.
Music: Tu Jia (Hunan Lullaby) by
Beijing Angelic Choir
Amarantine by Enya
Watermark by Enya
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Still the FLASHBACK, Justin’s POV:
But halted once they saw us, I know the reason why I had butterflies in my stomach now, I was afraid. Not of my mom but Shaelyn. I stared at outer space for a while but Mikaela coughed rather loudly to regain my attention. Weakly, I started speaking, “Hey guys, I want you to meet Mikaela Reed.” The room was silent, both were waiting for me to add a little more information on Mikaela and why we were holding hands. I started again, but much louder and confident this time, “She’s my girlfriend. She’s an upcoming new artist, The Dream’s protégé.” Both my mom and Shaelyn went, “Ohh, that’s why.” When they realized they had both said the same thing at the same time, they laughed. But not for long, Shaelyn and my mom both introduced themselves to Mikaela, and welcomed her. Telling Shaelyn Mikaela was my girlfriend was one of the hardest things I had ever had to do. I searched for any anger in Shaelyn’s face but was unsuccessful, she didn’t care. Oh wait, she did care but she was happy for me. She has neutral feelings for me; I’ll always be just her friend and boss.
END OF FLASHBACK
Justin’s POV:
I’ve been standing outside Shaelyn’s house for at least 5 minutes now and was literally melting. I put my pride to the side, and rang the doorbell.
Noone answered for quite a while, I looked at the driveway, no cars. That must have meant that no one was home, I turned around but just as I took the first step, someone had opened the door. I turned around once more and faced the door, instead of seeing Shaelyn. I saw nothing. Noone. Then I looked down, it was a little girl. What the frik? I thought this was Shaelyn’s house. She didn’t have a sister or brother or smaller siblings than her. “Yes, mister?” the little girl asked me sweetly. I smiled at the little girl, oh she was cute. Kid cute. She must have looked 5 or 6. “Sorry, I think I have the wrong-” I was interrupted by a familiar voice shouting from a distance, “Chloe, who’s at the door?” Relief swept through my body, “Shaelyn?” I whispered to myself, the little girl heard me. “SHAELYN!” she shouted, dang another little girl with a big voice. But she still looked cute. “There’s a boy at the door, and he looks very pretty.” Pretty? I am not pretty, I am handsome. But I was still flattered by her compliment.
Soon enough, Shaelyn walked towards the door, wearing a tank tap and shorts. My PA is mighty fine. Well, ex PA. “Oh.” I heard her/Shaelyn say.
FLASHBACK, the night Mikaela told Justin to let Shaelyn go:
Justin’s POV:
I had talked to my mom and she honestly disliked the idea. Disliked it? No, she absolutely hated it. I told her that it was my idea, since I didn’t want her to be angry at MY OWN girlfriend. We argued about it, but obviously I had won. It wasn’t much of a challenge for me.
My mom had left to do some ’shopping’, but I knew she wasn’t really. It was just one of the things she did when she was upset, shop ’til you drop. Of course, before I was famous, she was unable to do that, but she never was upset back then, I didn’t have a PA she literally loved like a daughter.
Mikaela had left so that I could get on with my business and what I mean by business is to fire Shaelyn. I had invited her to come round and obviously she was very confused, it was a Saturday night and it was her day off.
After 20 minutes of waiting, she had finally arrived, I made her sit down. It was quiet for a while but I spoke first, “Shaelyn…” This was going to hurt a lot, but if I was to keep Mikaela, I would have to Shaelyn go. Shaelyn sat with her ears wide open (not literally, lol) “It’s not that we don’t appreciate everything you’ve done for me and my mom but I think it’s time. That we let you go.” She didn’t speak for a while, I searched her face for any signs of anger, there were none. Her face was expressionless. ‘Oh’ was all she could manage to say before she left.
“You let her go that early, huh?” my mom asked me harshly, when she arrived back home. I nodded, and we spoke no more of it.
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Yeah, too many flashbacks. I’m sorry. Comment comment 
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Darrell, Jennifer are fine, progressive parents, which is noteworthy in this era of lazy Parenting. They give their daughter Amory love, security, physical and intellectual stimulation, patience and most importantly, respect.
After getting their caricature drawn by Sam Klemke, they get philosophical with her about the notion of mortality on the Merry Go Round in the park.
No cell phones, no microwaves, no video games and no high fructose corn syrup for this 4 year old.
Would that ALL modern parents in the western world would be as intelligent about child rearing as these.
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Building our family through open Adoption would be a dream come true. We created this video (our first ever!) so that you can learn more about us if you are considering placing your child for adoption.
You can also check out our web site: www.kristinandmatt.us
If you think we might be a great match, please contact us: us@kristinandmatt.us
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In this day and age parents need to take on more of a responsibility monitoring who and what their children are exposed to!
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Firstly,this is a composition i wrote in 1993 involving chordal mutation. In this piece is a three note chord which one by one each of the notes descends by a half step until i arrived to the next chord and the next until i arrive near open position and then go into something a bit different. Back in my college days i stumbled upon it and basically with this work i did it with a dozen chords as opposed to one or two. I originally called the piece “World from Space” and thought this music might do well with some pics from space.
Secondly i came up with the idea of typing up some thoughts i have gathered in my past years reading on the subject of reincarnation. I have read dozens of books on the subject of reincarnation and past-life regression and i personally feel as many of the authors do that the past life regression cases can’t be explained any other way. These are researhers, scientists, scholars, former atheists like Michael Newton, who in their fields tend to feel reincarnation important to consider. As for me i personally have my very own personal story of a past life recollection that has always been with me since a young child. The information in my recollection could not have been obtained by a 4 yr old boy who did not even learn about that specific historical event until highshool years.
I am not claiming to have answers and want people to be comfortable in their beliefs no matter what they are as long as we love one another and live in peace. My mind is open and not shut, and my eyes are wide open too. I am still learning and i won’t be held hostage by any belief system. I don’t want to be blissfully ignorant with a “no compromise” attitude. I will admit i once was trying to convert the world and for a long time, until i started listening, reading, and thinking. Now i find myself more free than i ever have been. The hardest thing about life is living in a world in which we as humans come to a state of people who will not compromise and who make other peoples lives difficult.
I don’t care what you are. If you are a Hindu, Buddhist, Christian, Muslim, Atheist etc if you feel comfortable in your belief system and you benefit from it positively then this is great. I am happy for you. But I think there can be a problem when we try to coerce others to gravitate toward our belief system. I am very guilty of doing that and for a long time. I have come a long way to learn the lesson that i must love unconditionally and i still have a long way to go. If i was perfect i would not be here on the earth “school” learning to evolve and grow spiritually toward a greater understanding that we are all the same and equal and brothers and sisters. There is no need to convert anyone but to love them. But don’t love them thinking that they will eventually come to think like you if you are kind to them long enough.
What a big subject. I could go on and on.
One day as i was sitting behind my computer i typed in “reincarnation” and many videos came up and i watched with great interest the videos by Michael Newton and Brian Weiss and all the young children past life memories. The more i researched and the more i bought books, the more i came to realize there could be something to this that the mainstream church does not want us to know about. I can’t tell you how liberating it is when one can finally dispose of their fears one by one that religion seems to infect us with from an early age. I believe In the end we will all be alright. If we screw up we only hurt ourselves and may have to come back in a next life and feel the same pain and hurt we inflicted onto another. Now that would seem to be fair and something a Loving God would allow us to go through as opposed to opening a trap door and thrusting us into fiery flames. Silly isn’t it?
Well maybe reincarnation and karma is the way it works, i don’t know for sure and no one does and no book can claim to have the “exact truth.” All we can dois carefully weigh the evidence we look into but to be on the safe side is to love one another.
One other thing i noticed the correlation between the idea of reincarnating in many lives and chordal mutation. Perhaps our souls grow and evolve toward a specific “light” or “goal” such as love. Each note in Chrodal Mutation gradually moves into or transforms into a different chord etc.
Some things to think about !
Peace and LOVE
Ray
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