Saturday, August 4, 2007

No News is Bad News


Our agency got a package this week but no good news for us. If we get our Letter of Acceptance this month, and Travel Approval in September, it will be a close thing whether we are able to travel to China before Guangzhou Trade Fair, Oct 15-30, when it's nearly impossible to get a room in the city. Tomorrow marks day 80 waiting for LOA and 8/10 will be 500 days since we first got Lian's file. I think we've all waited long enough.

I'm putting together a package and photo album to send to Lian so she'll have an idea who she's being sent off to live with. Today is photo staging day - I need to send her pictures of the house, the bedroom she and Lela will share (after a major tidying effort) the pets, Grandma Pines house - and us too. We have to prepare her for big sister Lela in full princess regalia. (An excuse to post a cute picture of the Princess Bride.) In case you don't know, Cinderella is Lela's alter ego, and she channels princess 24/7. She was born to wear high heels and play dress up - and leap tall steps with a single bound too, a good balance.

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Mother's Day

Last spring while riding the train home from the city where I had just handed in the last of Lian's paperwork, I had nothing to do since I had gone through all my reading material while waiting at the Chinese Embassy. I got out a notepad and this poem started to flow and practically wrote itself. Adoption can be bittersweet as there is no gain without a loss.
http://www.emkpress.com/mothersday.html

Lian on left in yellow

Lian on left in yellow
about 14 months, with her friend Hailey

Lian at 6 months

Lian at 6 months
Who could resist that smile?

Lian at 4 months

Lian at 4 months
Right after surgery for her lip

Sha'anxi Province Map

Sha'anxi Province Map
HanZhong in lower left

China Map

China Map
Sha'anxi Province in center