When coming to China, I thought the day we got our girl, she was ours, but as we were signing paperwork yesterday, we were informed the first 24 hours are basically an interim period, in case we want to give her back. Well, no worries there, so it was made official today! We basically sat […]
Family Day
We made the brilliant move of starting our day with breakfast in our hotel. We are in Marriott’s most of our time in China, and so far all of them have fabulous breakfasts. Breakfast is my favorite meal in China, plus someone made the great recommendation to bring some small Tupperware like containers with us […]
Leaving for Shanghai
We got up early to head to the train station with our group on Sunday. I was a ball of anxiety, feeling so much anxiousness about all the unknowns. Plus us I was hesitant to leave our people and be on our unknown in another new city. We were the first ones dropped off, with […]
Beijing
Today was a great day! Really our only day touring in Beijing, we started the day at 7:30am and didn’t stop until 9pm. There were a few things on the schedule we missed, but all the things at the top of my list were hit. We started at the jade factory. Jade is iconic in […]
Arrival
Well, we made it. We had the slowest check in lady ever (40 minutes to process our bags), got snapped at by TSA for one of their mistakes, couldn’t get wireless on the flight, and got very little sleep…but we are here! EvaKate did incredible…she’s such a trooper! She slept on me a good chunk […]
T Minus 36 hours
We are headed home after dropping our boys off. Definitely bittersweet. We are excited to start the next chapter in our lives, but I’m also mourning this one a bit. The one where my kids were about to all be in school full time. Where I could take a shower whenever I wanted. Where kids […]
TA, CA, and Two Weeks to Go
TA came in seven or less days like we prayed it would. Day 6. July 11 family day. CA came two days later for July 19. We are traveling with two of the families we prayed we would that we met at our training in February. God has been so good. We booked all the […]
Random Thoughts a Month Out of Travel
Lots happening, and not tons of time to update here. If you are following our adoption closely, feel free to hop on over to Facebook and request to follow our group. I can do short blurbs, but the blogging has seemed intimidating. Right now we are waiting for Article 5 pickup on June 14. (I800 […]
Just Keep Swimming
To borrow a phrase from Ron Burgundy: “I’m in a glass case of emotion”. My baby girl just graduated Pre-K and is currently attending her last day of preschool EVER. Next week my oldest will walk the halls of his elementary school for the last time and be middle school bound. The government hates us […]
Patient in Affliction
If you’ve been following along, or are the least bit familiar with adoption, you know this journey has not been a cake walk. In fact, there were some times that were absolutely heart wrenching. So many times I have wanted to walk away from this process as it’s felt too hard. As I look back, […]
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