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Our daughter is home

June 30, 2009

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Hi again, in my third blog I talked about my wife and I adopting a 12 year old young lady. On June 21st my wife flew up to the state of Washington to pick her up and bring her back home to South Carolina. My wife arrived in Seattle at about 11am and she picked our daughter up that afternoon. The lady from the adoption agency came by the hotel that evening to give us all of the appropriate paperwork such as the letter stating that our daughter was being placed in our home, the court papers saying the same thing and some other information. My wife and daughter flew back to South Carolina the next day and I picked them up from the airport. It was a great day and it was nice to see them come off the plane, our daughter was finally home. I off course took a week’s leave so we could get her settled into the house and family. We took her to post to get her enrolled into DEERS, TRICARE, and the hospital. After doing all of that, we took her to the zoo and the Carowinds which is an amusement park/water park on the border of North Carolina and South Carolina. She is adjusting well to our family and we are very grateful and blessed to have her as part of our family. Until next time, take care.

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  • Jackie

    Jul 2, 2009 12:25 PM

    Hi. I hope everything is going well, it sounds like it based on your blog. I just have a question for you. My boyfriend and I have had some stuff going on for about two years now. He proposed to me about a month ago and I accepted. The hard thing for me to endure is the fact that he is leaving for the Marines in about two years after he graduates. My question is, how do you deal with the fact that you can't see your family everyday?


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  • SFC William Howell

    Jul 2, 2009 1:08 PM

    Jackie, I am not sure if you are referring to the deployment blogs, but as of now my family is with me and I see them everyday. While deployed it was hard to stay connected with my family. My wife and I talked at least 3 times a week on the phone and we were in contact with email and IM. She would make sure that she sent me pictures of our children every week and let me know what they did that week. Deployments are hard and even after we married she was in the Army and on recruiting duty in Missouri while I was Ft. Hood. Being away from each other was very difficult, but if you love each other you will make it work. There are some couples that do not take the time to make it work, they just look at it as well he or she is not here and I cannot take this so they split up. It will work out as long as you work on it. Take care and hope this has helped.


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