It is all set! On Monday, August 28, I received the very good news. We had TA, travel approval. My agency requested that we be allowed to have a consulate appointment with the 7 other families from BAAS that had received their approval the week before. The request was granted so we will have our appointment on September 27!
Marney and I will leave here on September 12 and return September 29. Jack joins our family on September 19!
Details will follow soon!
As with my other adoptions: I waited, waited, waited, and panicked!
Thursday, August 31, 2006
Marney's tile in China
Part of what has been driving my plans for our return to China is that I want to see the tile that I purchased on the Hands of Hope Wall built by Angel Covers as a fundraiser for orphans in China. In searching for the directions of the wall, I found that it was built at the Philip Hayden Foundation's Shepherd's Children Village. It is located with LangFang Children's Village both house orphans, but they choose not to call it an orphanage. I have emailed them and requested that Marney and I be allowed to spend the day there helping in any way they see fit. My contact in China is to make the arrangements. I am very excited about this experience for Marney and for me.
Saturday, August 26, 2006
Here's . . . Wolfie!
Wofie, Alex and Sam. Did I mention that we added a "puppy" to the family? Sometimes I think I must have mush for a brain! Who needs a new "puppy" when they know absolutely nothing about being a puppy mama and are about to travel across the world to bring home a 2 year old. But "Here's . . . Wolfie!" Wolfie is somewhere around 7 months old; he is either a shepard, a rotwieler, a lab, a doberman, or a combination of all of the above! Gee! I think he was made for this family!
Friday, August 25, 2006
Day 78, but who's counting? ME!
The picture is my daughter, Marney, but I feel as though I am just hanging
on
. . .
I promised myself I wouldn't get this way. Adoption #4, one would think that my experience would tell me that this will happen in it's own time, relax, enjoy my children, Jack will be here before you know it and I won't know what hit me!
But I am anxious. My neck is so sore and stiff, I cannot stop eating, constant eating, nonstop eating! I feel as though I am in training for being a Sumo wrestler. I am not hungry, but I continue to eat!
I am spacing things out. Today was a scheduled visit for Sam's 2nd year post placement report. It is on my calendar. We talked about it on Wednesday--the reason Sam could not go to Aunt Diane's for the weekend; but today when Mary rang the bell we were preparing to leave to go to Living Treasures and see the animals. I wanted to do something fun with the kids on the last full official day of summer vacation and that is what they chose. Thank goodness we had not left yet. The visit went well in spite of the fact that the house was it's usual disaster and we went to Living Treasures after she left, but oh did I feel foolish!
on
. . .I promised myself I wouldn't get this way. Adoption #4, one would think that my experience would tell me that this will happen in it's own time, relax, enjoy my children, Jack will be here before you know it and I won't know what hit me!
But I am anxious. My neck is so sore and stiff, I cannot stop eating, constant eating, nonstop eating! I feel as though I am in training for being a Sumo wrestler. I am not hungry, but I continue to eat!
I am spacing things out. Today was a scheduled visit for Sam's 2nd year post placement report. It is on my calendar. We talked about it on Wednesday--the reason Sam could not go to Aunt Diane's for the weekend; but today when Mary rang the bell we were preparing to leave to go to Living Treasures and see the animals. I wanted to do something fun with the kids on the last full official day of summer vacation and that is what they chose. Thank goodness we had not left yet. The visit went well in spite of the fact that the house was it's usual disaster and we went to Living Treasures after she left, but oh did I feel foolish!
Thursday, August 24, 2006
Here is a picture of Marney when we attended a Chinese 
Cultural weekend in Chicago last Fall sponsored by OCDF, Our Chinese Daughters Foundation. At that time, I decided to begin to plan a trip back to China for the summer of 2007. I had no idea we would be traveling sooner to bring home another family member! It is interesting what God brings into your life when you leave your heart open. I guess that is the only way I can explain how I ended up with 4 kids! 
Cultural weekend in Chicago last Fall sponsored by OCDF, Our Chinese Daughters Foundation. At that time, I decided to begin to plan a trip back to China for the summer of 2007. I had no idea we would be traveling sooner to bring home another family member! It is interesting what God brings into your life when you leave your heart open. I guess that is the only way I can explain how I ended up with 4 kids!
DTC/LID/TA
The final important acronyms and dates:
DTC: dossier to China (massive amounts of paperwork that had to be notarized, certified, and authenticated) June 8, 2006
LID: log in date (the date China logs the dossier into their computer) June 12, 2006
TA: travel approval--still waiting
DTC: dossier to China (massive amounts of paperwork that had to be notarized, certified, and authenticated) June 8, 2006
LID: log in date (the date China logs the dossier into their computer) June 12, 2006
TA: travel approval--still waiting
Pictures! Pictures! Pictures!
We were very thrilled on Monday, August 21, to receive pictures of Jack that were taken on August 17! The only pictures we had seen up to that point were of Jack at the age of 6 months--he isn't a baby anymore. Jack turned 2 on August 1.
Not much of a blogger . . .
Okay. I am finding out that blogging is not my thing! However, I am trying to figure out the easiest way to communicate with family/friends while Marney and I are in China--yahoo group? blog? The jury is still out. So, this will be my attempt to update as I wait and wait and wait for TA (travel approval).
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