We decided to preceed with Linda. Tomorrow morning I will be contacting a doctor who specializes in international adoptions to look at Linda's file. It doesn't have a lot of information in it but we still want his opinion. He looked at Grace's and gave us so much insight.
She is beautiful! I will post again once we hear what the doctor says. If Linda is the one we will be going to Jiangxi Province this time.
By the way Linda is just her agency given name. We don't know her Chinese name yet. We are thinking about the name Alyssa Faith but aren't definite yet. We didn't decide on Grace's name until we had met her so it will probably be the same with Linda.
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Is Linda Faith?
Well we found another little girl with a different agency. She was born in October 2009. We are still trying to make a final decision. She is absolutely beautiful but we are just trying to decide if now is the right time.
I am including a few sentences from a post an adoptive mom posted in one of my adoption groups. It explains exactly how I feel and she does a much better job explaining it than I would be able to explain why we are adopting again.
I am truly blessed and content . People ask me why adopt again when you have so much. That is exactly why we are adopting again. We do have so much. And when I end my life, may I remember the happiness of today and the joy in watching children scared, isolated, left by others who are brave enough to join our family.
I am including a few sentences from a post an adoptive mom posted in one of my adoption groups. It explains exactly how I feel and she does a much better job explaining it than I would be able to explain why we are adopting again.
I am truly blessed and content . People ask me why adopt again when you have so much. That is exactly why we are adopting again. We do have so much. And when I end my life, may I remember the happiness of today and the joy in watching children scared, isolated, left by others who are brave enough to join our family.
Monday, May 23, 2011
Teresa is not our daughter
Got the email this morning that the other couple decided to proceed with Teresa's adoption. Guess she wasn't our daughter after all. God must have other plans for us.
It may be awhile before there are any more posts on this blog. We aren't in a rush to find our next daughter but you never know when she will come along.
It may be awhile before there are any more posts on this blog. We aren't in a rush to find our next daughter but you never know when she will come along.
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Is Teresa our daughter?
We still don't know if the other family is going to proceed with adopting Teresa. It has been a very long weekend waiting. We found 2 videos of her online. She is absolutely adorable. Dallas and I truly believe she is our daughter. We sure home we find out tomorrow. We know it is in God's hands but it sure would be nice to know one way or the other.
Saturday, May 21, 2011
Is Teresa our daughter?
Since adopting Grace Dallas and I have always said we would like to adopt one more daughter. Dallas always wonders if the time is right. A year ago we went through Financial Peace University by Dave Ramsey. It changed our lifes. We still aren't done but our only debt left is my van and the house. So we weren't planning to find our daughter yet. We have been discussing whether we thought she was in China or possibly foster care. We really wanted to be debt free before starting the process again.
Along came Teresa, a little girl on our previous agency's China Special Focus list. We first saw her picture on May 11, 2011. We didn't decide to view her file until May 15. Unfortunately by the time we asked another family was already viewing her file. We are now waiting for their decision. If they move forward we miss the opportunity to have Teresa as our daughter. We are hoping to hear something at the beginning of the week.
There are several reasons we feel Teresa is our daughter. She is born the right year. The boys were born in 1992, 1995, and 1998 and the girls were born in 2002 and 2005. Our next daughter should be born in 2008, right? She is from the same province as Grace. This is a big one. Before we saw her file we knew she was living in Beijing but didn't know what province she was from. We said if she is from Fujian then she is the one. We were quite suprised the next day to find out she was from Fujian. The agency gave her the name of Teresa. The day I saw her picture for the first time was the same day my friend, Teresa, received her baby through domestic adoption.
So now we sit and wait and wait and wait some more. We know if she was meant to be our daughter the other couple will say no but this waiting is tough. It is like waiting for a call from the doctor's office to find out if you are pregnant.
I decided to title this blog Finding Faith because Dallas and I weren't quite ready to begin this journey again but we know we need to have faith and follow God's direction. If this is the path we are to go then God will surely lead the way. Dallas is also pretty insistent that this daughter's middle name be Faith.
Hopefully in the next post I will be able to answer the question "Is Teresa our daughter?"
Along came Teresa, a little girl on our previous agency's China Special Focus list. We first saw her picture on May 11, 2011. We didn't decide to view her file until May 15. Unfortunately by the time we asked another family was already viewing her file. We are now waiting for their decision. If they move forward we miss the opportunity to have Teresa as our daughter. We are hoping to hear something at the beginning of the week.
There are several reasons we feel Teresa is our daughter. She is born the right year. The boys were born in 1992, 1995, and 1998 and the girls were born in 2002 and 2005. Our next daughter should be born in 2008, right? She is from the same province as Grace. This is a big one. Before we saw her file we knew she was living in Beijing but didn't know what province she was from. We said if she is from Fujian then she is the one. We were quite suprised the next day to find out she was from Fujian. The agency gave her the name of Teresa. The day I saw her picture for the first time was the same day my friend, Teresa, received her baby through domestic adoption.
So now we sit and wait and wait and wait some more. We know if she was meant to be our daughter the other couple will say no but this waiting is tough. It is like waiting for a call from the doctor's office to find out if you are pregnant.
I decided to title this blog Finding Faith because Dallas and I weren't quite ready to begin this journey again but we know we need to have faith and follow God's direction. If this is the path we are to go then God will surely lead the way. Dallas is also pretty insistent that this daughter's middle name be Faith.
Hopefully in the next post I will be able to answer the question "Is Teresa our daughter?"
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