I’ve never felt this way before
funny how you found you’re way to my door
and suddenly my prayers are coming true
and these arms are not letting go of you
this love this love is the deep kind
you’re my baby, you’re my sunshine
I’ll hold your hand, be your biggest fan
and I’ll love you all of the time
our eyes are not quite the same shade
and your hair blows in the wind a different way
but I am your mother and
I love you just the same
so I’ll take your hand honey
and you can take my name
my heart has been redeemed,
adopted and now I know my Father
this grace that I’ve received
I want to show you
I want to show you
this love this love is the deep kind
it hangs on through the storm and the sunshine
I’ll hold your hand, be your biggest fan
and I’ll love you all of the time
February 3, 2012...Article 5 picked up and delivered to the CCCWA
January 13, 2012...Article 5 dropped off
January 12, 2012...Cabeled
January 2, 2012...I-800 approval
December 14, 2011...LOA
September 5, 2011...PA
August 31, 2011...Submitted LOI
August 30, 2011 PM...Accepted referral
August 30, 2011 AM...Received referral
August 26, 2011...LID
August 17, 2011...DTC
July 26, 2011...Documents Sent for Authentication
July 22, 2011...Immigration Approval
June 6, 2011...Biometric Fingerprinting
May 28, 2011...Notice of I-800A Receipt
May 17, 2011...Submitted I-800A Application
May 5, 2011...Home Study Interview 4 of 4
April 17, 2011...Home Study Interview 3 of 4, Home Tour
April 1, 2011...Home Study Interview 2b of 4, Hank
March 30, 2011...Home Study Interview 2a of 4, Brecca
March 2, 2011...Home Study Interview 1 of 4
February 24, 2011...Finger Prints Sent to SBCN; CAN Forms Sent to Lifeline
February 11, 2011...Received China Adoption Manual
February 7, 2011...Submitted Application to Lifeline
February 4, 2011...Met with Counselors at Lifeline
Romans 12:12
"Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction and faithful in prayer."
Jeremiah 29:11
"For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all of your heart."
We are a 30-something couple with an adorable 3 1/2 year old biological daughter and a precious 20 month old daughter brought to us through the miracle of adoption on February 19, 2012. We had a heart for adoption and after traveling the emotional road of infertility God led us to our daughter in China. We were family of three hoping to become four and on August 20, 2011 (one week before receiving our daughter's referral) we got the surprise of a lifetime when we found out we were pregnant with our third child. This blog is a journal of our journey, and the many stops along the way. God is so faithful and so good all of the time. We thank Him daily for the long road that led us to our sweet family...to our girls.