Our Daughter's Song

I wanted to share the song that Ty wrote for our daughter in Africa. You can hear by going to
www.myspace.com/tyrusmorgan

"My Love Won't Walk Away" it's the 1st song-just click on it

This is an earlier post from Ty about the song...

I (Ty) wrote a song when Casey was pregnant with Ella about the potential/dreams for Ella and where her "Little Shoes" may go some day. I seem to be inspired during that "pregnancy" period whether it's biological or not and was struck by the feelings of abandonment that many orphans have at some point in their lives and how I don't want our children, any of them, to ever worry or wonder about losing mine or Casey's love and wanted to express it through music. I began writing the song and had titled it "MY LOVE WON'T WALK AWAY". I then stumbled upon Isaiah 54 in "The Message" translation of The Bible and the verse that God says, "MY LOVE WON'T WALK AWAY". I have finished this song and look forward to recording it soon to be a message to my kids and a reminder of God's love for us.

---now it's recorded!

Thanks and enjoy!
Casey

education

Please educate yourself on this issue. It is EXTREMELY important

BBC News- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7429594.stm

IMC- http://imcworldwide.org/content/media/detail/1798/?gclid=CJa1_Z7isZQCFRghnAodF3M_iA

Seeing Africa

Casey here--Ok...so it happened once and I wasn't going to tell you about it and now it just happened again so I have to tell you...

The other day I was putting shampoo in my hand to then put it in my hair and I looked down and it was in the shape of Africa!

Well, just now I got a water spot on my dress and guess what...yeah, you're right-it was in the shape of AFRICA!

I guess because a big piece of my heart is there and it is always on my mind!

Keep an eye out, you just might see it, too. Let me know if you do!

We are now on week 3 of waiting for a referral. After running around for 3 months like crazy people... getting fingerprinted, gathering every speck of info (i.e. birth cert., marriage cert, vitals) available on us, having a HUGE yard sale (that we are still recovering from physically), having our home inspected...it is time to sit still and wait! It feels a little strange, I must say. People ask us all the time, "What's going on with the adoption?". Well, not much that we can see. The next thing that will happen on our side is we will get a referral with pictures and info about our child. That should be 3.25 to 5.25 more months! yes the .25 is to ephasize we have already waited our .75 months.

Let me share a few stats about Ethiopia for those of you that haven't heard of the country since "We are the World" came out in the eighties.

*Ethiopia is twice the size of Texas

*it has a population of about 75 million people

*there are approx. FIVE MILLION orphans in Ethiopia

*the average income is $500/YEAR

*One in six children die before their fifth birthday

*One in ten children die before their first birthday

*Half the children in Ethiopia will never attend school; 88% will never attend secondary school

*Only 24% of households have access to safe drinking water

*Ethiopia’s doctor to children ratio is 1 to 24,000

Waiting/phone numbers

We realize that at this point, with our Dossier turned in, checks written, and in-between garage sales that we are in wait mode.  So we thought we would continue to update the blog with thoughts, statistics, questions, some random and some more relevant.

To kick this off I wanted to pose a question and allow our loyal blog readers (all 3 of you) to comment.  

Here goes....

So I think I am fairly with the times, I have a Myspace account with a slide show, I send and receive text messages, I do worktapes to the songs I write on Garageband, for goodness sakes I BLOG!  A trend that is rearing it's ugly head that at first I thought was just an anomaly, I have now confirmed nearly a half dozen times.  What is this "new age" craziness that Ty is talking about you may ask.....the 3-4-3 verbalization of a ten digit phone number.  In other words, I am hearing people, mostly younger than me, tell phone number like this:"yeah just give me a call on my cell, the number is 555-5555-555......WHAT!  I don't know where or how these younguns were raised but I have always thought the proper way to tell a phone number was with the 3 digit area code, 3 digit prefix.....followed by a polite pause and then the 4 digits that represent the personal number, I actually have even taken pride in what those 4 numbers were before.

Oh well, I guess American Idol call in numbers have maybe caused this cultural shift in phone number delivery.  I will just have to learn to understand and decipher these numbers without the correct pause placement.  The next thing you know people will stop saying www. before telling a web-site to go check out.  Well, surely not....

Thanks,

Ty (Andy Rooney) Morgan

And it's off!!!

And it's off!!! Ella sealed it with a kiss. Our dossier is totally finished and on it's way to Washington DC. It has two stops there, one in North Carolina and then to ETHIOPIA!! I have had butterflies of excitement all day!! Ella prayed to her sister in the truck driving to the UPS store.. it was so sweet. They are going to be best friends!!
The next step,you ask....? Wait 2-5 months for a referral.

WOW... THAT WAS FAST

Our dossier has been approved by our agency! What we thought would take 10 business days to process took only 2!! They said it looks great!! Yoohooo!! Our dossier is on it's way back to us and will be sent to Washington DC hopefully late this week!!! Can you tell by all of the "!!!" we are a tad bit excited about how quickly things are progressing!!!