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		<title>4 Years Ago</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 03:12:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We found out we were expecting a little one named XiaoBei.  She was a little over 7 months old and I started crying like a baby, sitting in my office at work for all to see, as soon as I answered the phone and heard my social worker say, &#8220;You have a little girl.&#8221; I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Then and Now</title>
		<link>http://beautifullyordinarylife.net/2010/11/06/then-and-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Nov 2010 02:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was 3 years ago today that I saw Ava&#8217;s referral pictures for the first time. The minute I saw them I burst into tears &#8211; despite the infamous mug shot look. I asked her to give me a current mug shot look for comparison&#8217;s sake. She complied. Amazing, huh? Check back &#8217;cause I&#8217;ll add [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3 Years Ago</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Nov 2010 00:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our Life Changed. One of the best days of my life.]]></description>
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		<title>Two Years</title>
		<link>http://beautifullyordinarylife.net/2010/01/21/two-years/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 02:52:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[January 21, 2008 Every moment of that day is forever engraved in my mind beginning with the flight from Beijing to Wuhan, including the trouble we had getting the car seat checked as oversize baggage on that flight, and ending with us holding Ava as she cried, seemingly inconsolably, in our hotel room that night. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gotcha Day Eve</title>
		<link>http://beautifullyordinarylife.net/2010/01/20/gotcha-day-eve/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 04:23:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ava]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Ava gets older we&#8217;re trying to work out our family traditions on how we will celebrate our gotcha day &#8211; the anniversary of the day she was placed into our arms. I have lots of ideas but they all don&#8217;t feel right (for us) yet but, regardless, this wasn&#8217;t a good year for much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>She&#8217;s really ours!</title>
		<link>http://beautifullyordinarylife.net/2009/02/24/shes-really-ours/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 04:50:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guess what came in the mail today? Ava&#8217;s official US birth certificate listing J and I as her parents. We&#8217;ve been waiting (impatiently) on this since her readoption was completed so it was a very pleasant surprise to open the mailbox and see it waiting there for me. I was a little weepy when I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Done</title>
		<link>http://beautifullyordinarylife.net/2009/01/23/done-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 01:37:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are done, done, done with Bethany. Well, almost. I still owe them some pictures and they owe me a letter for the tax people verifying what some of the receipts we got in China are for &#8211; but once all that&#8217;s done I can wash my hands of them completely. We had our last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1/21/2008</title>
		<link>http://beautifullyordinarylife.net/2009/01/21/1212008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 03:40:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve alternated between weepy/teary and happy all day today. In a good way for both, of course. It was one year ago today that Qi Xiao Bei was placed in our arms and we all began our new life as a family of three. It&#8217;s so hard to believe that a year with her has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Bethany Correspondence</title>
		<link>http://beautifullyordinarylife.net/2008/11/20/more-bethany-correspondence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:52:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Got another letter from our (I can almost say former) adoption agency. This one was congratulating us on completing Ava&#8217;s readoption which, by the way, is for the readoption they told us we needed to have an attorney to do and oh, by the way again, they just happened to have one they could recommend. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Home</title>
		<link>http://beautifullyordinarylife.net/2008/11/14/home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 03:51:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s so good to be home. And there were some lovely things (other than J and Ava) waiting for me when I arrived. 1. J installed a propane fireplace log set while I was away. We bought this on clearance about 4 years ago and it&#8217;s been sitting in our closet ever since. Due to [...]]]></description>
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