Comments on: The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face https://stephaniekarpwrites.com/2009/12/first-time-ever-i-saw-your-face/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=first-time-ever-i-saw-your-face Adoption changed my life. I write about this and so much more. Fri, 20 Nov 2020 17:00:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 By: Regina https://stephaniekarpwrites.com/2009/12/first-time-ever-i-saw-your-face/#comment-904 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:00:24 +0000 http://box2369.temp.domains/~tephaoz1/?p=223#comment-904 Hello guys! I'm enjoying your catch-up posts very much. You have really captured the moments well in your words. Brings back memory after memory! It must have been so hard to leave your girls. They are just the sweetest things and I know you are so proud of them. I'm so glad you were able to visit the Anne Frank house and felt no stress or rush. Isn't the Amsterdam airport great?

I can't wait to see photos of your "Dashing Equestrian" and hear more about him! I'm so glad things are working out, and even Gary is at ease. 😉 The adoptive fathers, for some reason, always tend to have their fears more at the forefront. It's not unusual, but it all melts away just the same.

Have a wonderful time bonding with your new son and experiencing all that is Kazakhstan. Feel free to contact me if there is anything I can help you with!

Many happy hugs,
Regina, Frank and Milo

]]> By: Regina https://stephaniekarpwrites.com/2009/12/first-time-ever-i-saw-your-face/#comment-903 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:00:24 +0000 http://box2369.temp.domains/~tephaoz1/?p=223#comment-903 Hello guys! I'm enjoying your catch-up posts very much. You have really captured the moments well in your words. Brings back memory after memory! It must have been so hard to leave your girls. They are just the sweetest things and I know you are so proud of them. I'm so glad you were able to visit the Anne Frank house and felt no stress or rush. Isn't the Amsterdam airport great?

I can't wait to see photos of your "Dashing Equestrian" and hear more about him! I'm so glad things are working out, and even Gary is at ease. 😉 The adoptive fathers, for some reason, always tend to have their fears more at the forefront. It's not unusual, but it all melts away just the same.

Have a wonderful time bonding with your new son and experiencing all that is Kazakhstan. Feel free to contact me if there is anything I can help you with!

Many happy hugs,
Regina, Frank and Milo

]]> By: Regina https://stephaniekarpwrites.com/2009/12/first-time-ever-i-saw-your-face/#comment-905 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:00:24 +0000 http://box2369.temp.domains/~tephaoz1/?p=223#comment-905 Hello guys! I'm enjoying your catch-up posts very much. You have really captured the moments well in your words. Brings back memory after memory! It must have been so hard to leave your girls. They are just the sweetest things and I know you are so proud of them. I'm so glad you were able to visit the Anne Frank house and felt no stress or rush. Isn't the Amsterdam airport great?

I can't wait to see photos of your "Dashing Equestrian" and hear more about him! I'm so glad things are working out, and even Gary is at ease. 😉 The adoptive fathers, for some reason, always tend to have their fears more at the forefront. It's not unusual, but it all melts away just the same.

Have a wonderful time bonding with your new son and experiencing all that is Kazakhstan. Feel free to contact me if there is anything I can help you with!

Many happy hugs,
Regina, Frank and Milo

]]> By: Kjersten, Steve, Aitugan & Nurai https://stephaniekarpwrites.com/2009/12/first-time-ever-i-saw-your-face/#comment-906 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:49:54 +0000 http://box2369.temp.domains/~tephaoz1/?p=223#comment-906 So wonderful to read all that you have added since yesterday. What a fantastic record/journal you will have of this experience. It will be very special for all of you. So thrilled that you are finally upon your own journey, and that all of us are here at home reading and following every word of your experience, just as you have done for so many other families.

As an update, we are most likely arriving in Almaty on the 28th and, if all goes to plan, flying back home with Nurai on the 30th. I should think you will still be in town then. Do you have a return date in mind? We have not yet decided whether we will go KLM or Lufthansa, but if you happen to be flying out on the 30th, we might try and join you.

Can't wait for photos. Big hugs.

]]> By: Kjersten, Steve, Aitugan & Nurai https://stephaniekarpwrites.com/2009/12/first-time-ever-i-saw-your-face/#comment-907 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:49:54 +0000 http://box2369.temp.domains/~tephaoz1/?p=223#comment-907 So wonderful to read all that you have added since yesterday. What a fantastic record/journal you will have of this experience. It will be very special for all of you. So thrilled that you are finally upon your own journey, and that all of us are here at home reading and following every word of your experience, just as you have done for so many other families.

As an update, we are most likely arriving in Almaty on the 28th and, if all goes to plan, flying back home with Nurai on the 30th. I should think you will still be in town then. Do you have a return date in mind? We have not yet decided whether we will go KLM or Lufthansa, but if you happen to be flying out on the 30th, we might try and join you.

Can't wait for photos. Big hugs.

]]> By: Kim Mancuso https://stephaniekarpwrites.com/2009/12/first-time-ever-i-saw-your-face/#comment-912 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:20:52 +0000 http://box2369.temp.domains/~tephaoz1/?p=223#comment-912 oh my stephie!
congratulations
read your blog
love the translation.!
love your story
you are such a great writer, i feel i am there with you experiencing it too
what a wonderful moment!
i am sure you are scared and a little nervous, understandably
what new mom isn't each time? lol

i cannot wait to meet him
i know your goodness emanates and you and garo;s light is
emits when you walk thru those doors to him
and he picks up on that!
i learned that from my horse friends!
he will pick up your energy!
soon you will be home with him
right now this is a discovery for all of you!
i am so grateful tatiana is serving as a guardian angel in some sense to you guys
i feel comforted to knwo you are in familiar and good hands!

i send my love and good wishes
cna't wait to hear more
love u!!!

]]> By: Kim Mancuso https://stephaniekarpwrites.com/2009/12/first-time-ever-i-saw-your-face/#comment-910 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:20:52 +0000 http://box2369.temp.domains/~tephaoz1/?p=223#comment-910 oh my stephie!
congratulations
read your blog
love the translation.!
love your story
you are such a great writer, i feel i am there with you experiencing it too
what a wonderful moment!
i am sure you are scared and a little nervous, understandably
what new mom isn't each time? lol

i cannot wait to meet him
i know your goodness emanates and you and garo;s light is
emits when you walk thru those doors to him
and he picks up on that!
i learned that from my horse friends!
he will pick up your energy!
soon you will be home with him
right now this is a discovery for all of you!
i am so grateful tatiana is serving as a guardian angel in some sense to you guys
i feel comforted to knwo you are in familiar and good hands!

i send my love and good wishes
cna't wait to hear more
love u!!!

]]> By: Kim Mancuso https://stephaniekarpwrites.com/2009/12/first-time-ever-i-saw-your-face/#comment-911 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:20:52 +0000 http://box2369.temp.domains/~tephaoz1/?p=223#comment-911 oh my stephie!
congratulations
read your blog
love the translation.!
love your story
you are such a great writer, i feel i am there with you experiencing it too
what a wonderful moment!
i am sure you are scared and a little nervous, understandably
what new mom isn't each time? lol

i cannot wait to meet him
i know your goodness emanates and you and garo;s light is
emits when you walk thru those doors to him
and he picks up on that!
i learned that from my horse friends!
he will pick up your energy!
soon you will be home with him
right now this is a discovery for all of you!
i am so grateful tatiana is serving as a guardian angel in some sense to you guys
i feel comforted to knwo you are in familiar and good hands!

i send my love and good wishes
cna't wait to hear more
love u!!!

]]> By: D and A https://stephaniekarpwrites.com/2009/12/first-time-ever-i-saw-your-face/#comment-915 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:38:32 +0000 http://box2369.temp.domains/~tephaoz1/?p=223#comment-915 It's so very exciting. What a wonderful adventure! I love your vivid descriptions of everything (and your writing gives me hope that our time is coming). Can't wait to see photos.

]]> By: D and A https://stephaniekarpwrites.com/2009/12/first-time-ever-i-saw-your-face/#comment-914 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:38:32 +0000 http://box2369.temp.domains/~tephaoz1/?p=223#comment-914 It's so very exciting. What a wonderful adventure! I love your vivid descriptions of everything (and your writing gives me hope that our time is coming). Can't wait to see photos.

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