One Family - unsolicited DVD review

We watched the DVD, One Family, this past weekend. It is really well done. It is just 35 minutes, and shows a family preparing for their trip to Ethiopia, and going to pick up their 10-yr-old daughter at Layla House. It includes some interview time with mom, dad and brother, and some scenes where the adoptive parents meet their daughter's Ethiopian family members. It also shows some of the beauty of Ethiopia and its people. We are going to use this DVD to help our extended family and friends get a feel for what we are doing and to help start more conversations on adoption. We enjoyed seeing how well cared for and loved the kids are at Layla House. We are especially eager to show it to our kids so they can see how much Ethiopian kids are like them.... because I think they, like most Americans, have a picture in their heads of sad, starving children. There is lots of love and laughter in this short film, and it is SO worth the price of admission. There are tears, too, because life involves tears. The producers of this film really caught the essence of what's important in life.