A Child Chosen - Perspectives of an Adoptive Parent

May 10th, 2008

Your First Mother’s Day

I remember my first Mother’s Day very clearly. We had traveled back to Chicago from our home in Michigan because it was so shortly after our first visit to Russia. We were so excited to share video of AJ with our family and show them all of the pictures (an entire photo album) that we […]

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March 25th, 2008

The Hermitage

One of my favorite places on our tour in St. Petersburg was the Hermitage Museum. I am typically not a big museum fan because I get tired of walking in big crowds but because we were there on a Sunday it was not very busy with school tours (and we started our tour there).

The Hermitage, […]

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March 24th, 2008

River Neva

Touring St. Petersburg on Saturday, we stopped for a photo shoot at the Neva River. Despite some jet-lag we plugged along because we wanted to get in as much of the sightseeing as we could.
The Neva River is an essential part of St. Petersburg’s charm. Many generations of locals and visitors to the […]

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