Our Journey to the East

My sweet baby girl, Happy Birthday! Today you turn TWO!! We were able to send Ashlyn a Birthday cake, lots and lots of candy, fruit and a ...

I just got an email that our I800 was approved yesterday! That is GREAT news! Please keep praying for September travel for us!

I emailed USC*S today to see what the status was on our I800 paperwork. My account person said that it had not gotten to him yet. That it ...

This is what I have come up with so far. If you have any advice for me please leave me a comment. I know alot of you have already been there...

I just found out that we need to be able to travel by September 10th, otherwise the next date that we can leave to go and get our baby girl ...

The last two days have been very busy days. This morning I mailed out our LSC and Ashlyn's Visa application to our agency. I also ma...

I guess our agency did not need to check on our papers because they came today!!!!!!!! After 107 days of waiting we have our LSC (formerly ...

We have asked our agency to again check on our paperwork. We were told it would be a week or two and we are now on week four. We are on da...

We have heard from the orphanage that the flooding is not near them and all the children are safe! Thank you all for praying!

Please be in prayer for the people of Southern China. The province of Guangxi has been hit the hardest with massive flooding. This is where ...

My baby is 23 months old today! Mommy hopes you have a great day! Only one more month and then you will be two years old! Hang on, sweetie, ...

Just wanted to give a quick update. Yes, we are on day 88. Yes, I am ok . Thank you all so much for the many calls from my sweet friends ...

Last night we received some very sad news. The baby girl that we were sponsoring from China passed away on Tuesday. She had a heart conditio...

Today we have hit the big 80. It is so hard to wait. Our agency says that the average wait time is 30 - 60 days.........all I want to do is ...

Today is day 78...........AAAHHHHH!

We are on day 62 and no news in sight. It is what it is and we will just keep hangin ' on until we receive our LSC . Tomorrow Ashlyn w...

There is some good news in the China adoption community. China has sent out referrals and LOAs again! That is good news because the hold ...

.....but what's the point in counting! China is on hold right now with adoptions, so the number of days is kind of thrown out the windo...

She has got to be one of the most beautiful baby girls I have EVER seen!!!! Ann at Red Thread is the most amazing and patient person in t...

We are on day 40 of our wait for our LSC ( LOA ). We are anticipating that we will receive it in the next week or two. At that point we w...