HAPPY NEW YEAR

Today is New Year's eve.Another year has come and gone. When I look back at this past year,it feels like it flew. Yet, while living it, it felt like forever. 2008 was a good year. My son graduated high school, my other son made his communion. We were all healthy, and there were no major life events. We did have our ups and downs with our adoption of our daughter Paige. But after all, it was the year in which we saw her face. So to 2009 I say bring it on. I pray that our family remains in good health, and with the economy in good financial health as well. And we hope that we will be bringing Min Shan home in a few months to complete our family. Thank you to all my family and friends near and far who have supported us on this journey in this past year.
Happy New year to you all!

Christmas Memories

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Pj night waiting for Santa

Every year we attend a pj night at one of our dear friend's house... complete with tree decorating,cookies and yes Jolly Saint Nick... I love to see Coleton with the man in the red suit each year....

Slowly up and running

I know I have not updated much in the last few weeks. It was a very crazy time. I hope everyone had a fantastic Christmas. We had a really good Christmas this year. Now slowly we are emerging from the holiday craziness.
We are very excited about having our little girl home for the next Christmas. We hung her stocking this year on our mantle as a reminder that she truly exists.

This is one of the pictures that didnt make it to the Christmas card. But you can see Paige's stocking in the background.

We are trying to be a little cautious too with our hearts,like that is possible. We know that anything can happen in adoption but pray that this is our beautiful daughter. OK so only positive thoughts there.

Paperwork: John went into the city alone on Tuesday to get the paperwork done by the state dept. and TECO. I had to work, and since it was the day before tht holiday it is a little more difficult for me to take off, so he went alone. Coleton was off from his school so he stayed home with Kyle that is off from college too.

Jason our nephew in law came over last Saturday to notarize our documents... Thanks Jay!!!

John then mailed it out Fed ex overnight from the city on the 23rd. It was to have gotten to our agency (JOH) on Dec.24 and then mailed right out to Taiwan. Ok so it is 6:00pm here and we are just getting ready to go to my parents that evening for Christmas eve and I check email one last time to see if our agency let us know it was received and sent. We got an email from Joyce at JOH that is asking where the fed ex package is because she didnt recieve it yet and she would be there until 4:30 (they are on west coast time). Quickly we tracked the package, and it said it was in TN. John called Fed Ex and they said due to weather, the flight to Seattle had been cancelled and the package would not be delivered until Friday. Well our agency was closed on Friday. Joyce said she will mail it ou on Monday when she recieves it.

So our paperwork hit a snafew.... I know it will get there but a little frustrating with all the delays.

A few of our friends had their hearings either on Christmas day or right before...so here is to them for hearing or rather in this case not hearing good news.

This is a long post.. I have a lot of pictures to get up here... next post...

Beautiful Min Shan

Here is the video of our referral for Min Shan. She is adorable.

Make a Smilebox greeting

As many of you know this was the news that we prayed for. She is just so adorable and even though we were going to take it slow,we couldnt help but fall totally in love with her. Her name Means Coral autumn sky. I like that. She is only 3 weeks old!!!

A VERY SAD DAY

Some day I will write a book about adoption. This has been one big rollercoaster, that I really want to get off of. I am sick at heart as I write this. Our beautiful HsinJung is no longer going to be our daughter. Her birthmom decided to parent her. No further explanation. I am not mad at her, just very sad that she will not be our daughter. I dont know how to go on from here, but I will. We have suffered from 5 miscarriages, a slow down in China, a bad domestic adoption experience, and now a failed Taiwan adoption. We will go on.

Ok so to look at the bright side, we will get another referral. Just not sure how soon. I want to look forward to our daughter that will be, We will know that she was meant for us... So stay tuned and if you get sick from the rise and fall of the rollercoaster, then you need to get off ...