Our International House of People: Thanksgiving

Monday, November 26, 2007

Thanksgiving

Ava and Lennah

Aunt Vicky and Grandma Smothering me with Kisses

What a Face ?

Mommy and Lennah

Daddy and Lennah

Lennah's Christmas Tree

Thanksgiving has came and went and this year we had a lot to be thankful for. Obviously, our greatest thanks is to God for blessing us with a beautiful and intelligent daughter. We were fortunate enough to have two Thanksgiving celebrations, one with Keith's Aunt and Uncle last weekend and one with my family on Thursday. Lennah enjoyed dinner with all her trimmings. I think she especially liked her sweet potatoes. We also had a busy week putting up the Christmas trees and all the decorations. Last year we purchased a new Christmas tree and we decided that our old one would become a childs tree in our family room. So this year we had the excitement of doing our traditional adult tree and Lennah's own personal Christmas tree. Lennah has enjoyed pulling ornanments off the tree so that is a battle we have not won yet. We have also talked to our homestudy agency and when they come out to complete our six month post placement report on Lennah we are also having our homestudy updated. So we can say that our official journey to baby Paulsen#2 will start on January 2, 2008 when that meeting takes place. From there we will go ahead and get our new application into CHI and then start our I-600 A. This weekend we also took Lennah to get her portraits with Santa, family Christmas pics, and her first birthday pictures done. Having to do all three at once was wallet busting but her photos came out beautiful and I cannot wait to have them in about a week and a half. Her first birthday party is this weekend so I will be busy in the kitchen getting all the prep done on Friday. It is hard to believe that she has been with us this long and that her birthday is here already. Well, here are some photos of our Thanksgivings.

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History of Ethiopia

Ethiopia is one of the oldest known cradles of civilization known to man. Christianity was brought to the Kingdom of Axum around the 4th century AD and later in the 7th century Islam was introduced. Foreign missionaries were introduced to the region around the 1630's. Because of these unwelcomed guest Ethiopia did not welcome foreign Christians and Europeans into their lands. Its isolationism may have saved the country from 19th century colonialism. In 1936 Italian facists entered the region and forced its emperor into isolation but was later returned when the British and the French defeated the Italians. Civil unrest would lead to the demise of the aging emperor and in 1974 a socialist sort of government was named. The country went through a period of red terror that was funded by the Soviets and Cuba. This lead to the implementation of a communist government being installed in the late 1970's, early 1980's. In 1989 the country went through a period of famine that also lead to a change in governments. Finally, in 1994 the country would declare its independence and later hold free elections.

History of Vietnam

For about two thousand years Vietnam was ruled by China, following this period it would become independent for the next almost thousand years. In the 1800's it would be colonized by the French. The early 20th century would bring about visions of an independent republic. In 1945 Ho Chi Minh declared Vietnam independent and renamed it the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. By 1947 a full-scale war would break out between the French and the Viet Minh (Ho CHi Minh's followers). China also began to aid the Viet Minh at this time due to its own communist revolution. July, 1954 the Geneva Accords would be sign paving the road to France leaving Vietnam; however, it would partition Vietnam into 2 independent states seperated by the 17th parallel. The South was helped by the United States, while the North would be dominated by the Viet Minh. By 1963 the South's government was very unstable. 1965 President Lyndon Johnson would send troops into Vietnam. The North would lead a massive attack in 1968 destroying much of the South. In 1969, Ho Chi Minh died but his forces remained in tact. By the early 1970's many Americans viewed the war as unwinnable and would prove unsuccessful at containing communism. January 1973 the Paris Peace Accords were signed ending the United States role in the war. In 1975 Saigon would fall to the North Vietnamese and in July of 1976 the two parts were reunified into the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. The war was disastrous for the Vietnamese people leaving an estimated 1 million to become boat people, 1 million imprisioned, and more than 100,000 killed. Today, Vietnam still has a communist form of government and although they are a developing nation many people remain extremely poor.

Monday, November 26, 2007

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