Yeah!! Doing the Happy Dance!  We just got an email that our homestudy is finished.  Now it has to travel to Savanah, then to Atlanta, then it will arrive in our happy hands and we will then mail it to the USCIS and then we will—–WAIT some more! 🙂  First we will wait for a fingerprint… Read More

We just got this adorable video of Hannah! She’s the one dressed in pink, up front and she is dancing away! I hope this brings a sweet smile to your face as it did ours. So sit back and get ready to dance with Hannah!

No–I am not referring to Auburn winning the National Championship! Even though in my household–all the males are walking around like peacocks! No, I’m talking about an e-mail from our agency–Great Wall. It came early in the evening.  It was from a family who traveled to China in November.  They met Hannah when they adopted… Read More

Well we just completed our In-Home visit with our social worker.  I think we should tell our kids that the Home Study lady is coming every week–our house looked great and smelled clean! (not that we live in a pig sty, but some rooms in our house, whose owners we will not disclose, are now CLEAN!!!… Read More

Today has been a little stressful–we had to answer what seemed like a bazillion questions about ourself, our family, our marriage etc., we are completing the questionaire necessary for the homestudy.  When we completed it, we asked now what’s next? The next two things needed to  help complete the Homestudy are our GBI checks and… Read More

Can you guess what it is?? We got our PA–today–just a few minutes ago!  WOW!! I can’t believe it! Okay so NOW I can share with you her picture . . . Here is Miss Hannah Grace (We will add her Chinese name in here somehow) Tears of Joy!  Tears of Joy! Our God is… Read More

Yesterday –yes Saturday–we had 4 doctor appointments.  It was such a blessing!  They were all well-baby check-ups for Hannah’s adoption.  I had tried to schedule the appointments with our regular pediatrician , but the staff person I was talking to told me that the doctors had decided not to take any well-baby appointments unless the… Read More

We have been told by some of our close friends and family that they are fearful of us being hurt again. As I mentioned in the background, we went through two very difficult adoption attempts (one from Kazakhstan and one through foster care) that left us wounded emotionally. We were asked “aren’t you afraid you… Read More

Well we were wondering too!  Today is the day we are supposed to send in $2100.00 to our adoption agency so we can send in our Letter of Intent to China.  So–we were waiting and waiting . . .  Even yesterday we only knew where some of the money would come from. Have I mentioned… Read More

Well–two things to report . . . 1) We heard back from the test results that our doctor asked us to get–One test is fine. To be quite honest I’m not sure what the results of the other test mean, but I know that it appears to be something that can easily be dealt with. … Read More