This is the story of our journey to bring our new little daughter home to her forever family.
We began our journey a year ago when we began praying about whether or not we should consider adding to our already large family! Our youngest daughter, Nadya, who we had adopted from Russia almost 3 years ago was the prayer warrior for our newest family member. She began praying in school with her class for a little sister from China. We learned of this through her teacher at a student conference and denied that we were going to adopt again. LIttle did we know that the prayers of a child would be heard by our God.
January 2006 the paperwork began. We had committed to a "Waiting Child". That is a child with special needs.
February 2006 we were fingerprinted. The homestudy is well underway. We had our medicals.
March 2006 our homestudy is complete and we file for the I71 document.
April 2006 we are waiting for approval. I finally arrives the last week of April. Yeah!
May 2006 We have all our documents completed and our dossier is ready to be sent off. But....we hear some news that puts us on hold for a bit. The age of the child we desired may not be possible due to our old ages!!!
June 2006 I begin looking at other agencies both for the age situation, but more importantly, the timeing of our referral. We are told we will not hear anything until at least Dec. 2006 or Jan. 2007. We know that our paper will start to expire if we wait. We begin praying...praying...what should we do?
July 2006 I receive a telephone call from a woman that works for an agency in Fl. She introduces herself and we immediately connect. I hung up feeling greatly encouraged and Larry and I discuss changing to this agency. We decided to enjoy the weekend of July 4th and to make the decision after.
July 9th I received another phone call from this wonderful lady, Martha. She shares that God had laid it on her heart to offer a child to us. This child is promised to another family, but they may decide not to go forward with the adoption. We would have to wait the weekend to hear.
July 13th at 3:10PM I received a phone call from Martha asking if we still were interested in this little girl?! YES!!! We wanted to make Qian, Jingxiang our new daughter. :) I could hardly control my excitement and the call came just when I was visiting our pediatrician for one of the other kids. This gave me the opportunity to talk with her about the medical condition we were taking on. No Problem!!!
July 25th We left for Cape Cod, Ma. for a much needed vacation and family reunion. We enjoyed two weeks with family and felt ready to come home and begin the next step to bring Jingxiang home to Ohio.
August 15th we received our pre-approval from China. Another step closer!
September 2006 Our dossier is in translation for China. We wait.
October 2006 We are still waiting. I am getting anxious to bring her home. We have not settled on a name yet and the kids have put there ideas before us. We will start working on her room next week. I would like to make one of the 100 square prayer quilts that are a China tradition for babies. I don't have a sewing machine so I need to find a volunteer to help me. :)
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