I have been down and blue seeing other parent's with the same dossier log in date, receiving their letters of acceptance to adopt their waiting children, from China and there has been no word for us. We are painting the girl's room this weekend and are praying the "Feng Shui" good vibes, bring our "Letter Of Acceptance" when we are finished!
I love the main color of the walls! It is a warm, sunny, creamy, buttery yellow and so cheerful and comforting. I can see the cheery room, filled with our two daughter's, this winter and even in the coldest, darkest day, it will still be warm, sunny and cheerful;-) The light rose, stripes on the top of the wall, will go on tomorrow, to coordinate with the Chinese lantern boarder. I can't wait to see it finished! I think the walls will remind me of happy memories on a carnival, merry-go-round and I hope the room brings the girl's as much joy.
We want to get the girl's room done as soon as possible so we can move Jesse into his new room. He is so excited. The two boys are at Scout camp this week and the house will be so quiet without them. I miss them already and they just left today. Thank-God I will have the two rooms to keep my busy, after work. I'm usually so exhausted after the eight-hour day that I'm hoping I will be too tired to miss them. Somehow, I don't think it will matter.
My friend received her "Travel Approval" to bring her little boy home from China. She leaves in August and will be home before school starts in September. I was secretly wishing we would be traveling together, but with the delay in us receiving our "Letter Of Acceptance to adopt and then having to wait another month for our "Travel Approval", there will be no chance of that;-(
Please pray that we hear good news to bring our little girl home. She is 19 months now and getting older by the month. The wait is excruciating and getting harder by the week.
Sunday, July 22, 2007
Sunday, June 24, 2007
My friend received her LOA after 109 days!!!
I just found out on Friday, after getting home from work that my friend received her letter of acceptance to adopt a little three year old boy from China! We traveled with her husband when we brought Jade Lin and their daughter home from China in 2002 and have become good friends. The girls have been in preschool together and dance since they were 4 years old. They should be traveling in August sometime. I'm so happy for them! She has waited longer then most, 109 days for her Letter of acceptance and I'm thrilled she finally received it! If we get our letter of acceptance this week or next, to adopt Meizi Meilin, we could be traveling together! We are with the same agency and it would be a dream come true, if we could travel with friends!
The letters of acceptance that were received by other families went up to April 19th, that I've heard of and I pray we get our call this week! My mother's birthday is on June 28th and our dossier to adopt Jade Lin, went over to China on her birthday, 5 years ago. It would be so special if we received our letter to adopt Meizi on the same day. One can only hope and pray.
I'm taking the kids to a movie today. We haven't done it for years, as a family and now that I'm finally working, full time, we can afford to do it and it is a nice reward for being away from home all week and the boys doing so well on their own;-)
The letters of acceptance that were received by other families went up to April 19th, that I've heard of and I pray we get our call this week! My mother's birthday is on June 28th and our dossier to adopt Jade Lin, went over to China on her birthday, 5 years ago. It would be so special if we received our letter to adopt Meizi on the same day. One can only hope and pray.
I'm taking the kids to a movie today. We haven't done it for years, as a family and now that I'm finally working, full time, we can afford to do it and it is a nice reward for being away from home all week and the boys doing so well on their own;-)
Saturday, June 23, 2007
WE COULD BE NEXT!!!!!
It's day 59 in the wait for our LOA (letter of acceptance) to adopt Meizi Meilin Rose. I read on my April, special needs group that an agency received LOA's for parents that had a "log in date" of April 18th! We have a log in date of April 24! WE COULD BE NEXT! I'm praying we get a call this week from our agency! I keep my cell phone in my pocket and it's on all the time, when I'm at work. When it rings, My heart jumps and my adrenaline races.
I finished my first week at work and by Friday, I was feeling much better about placing customer's orders and answering questions about our stock of eye wear. I stuck gold when I landed this job! The 6 women I work with are so nice and go out of their way to help me and the two owners that I have met are such nice people. In between calls, we visit and catch up on everyones lives. I am so blessed to have found this position in this company. I found out this week, there are three owners and they aren't such a small company and they are in the process of buying another company so it is a great time to get in with this company, as it expands and grows. I don't know how I was so fortunate to be hired but I think God had a hand in this also. This job will afford us to adopt Meizi, sell our home and buy a larger one (which we will need with our growing family) move into a better neighborhood and put our kids through college. It is such a blessing!
Hopefully this will be our week to receive our LOA and we will know for sure that Meizi Meilin Rose will be our new daughter. Jade Lin is talking about her and her coming home, every day and she is so excited and tired of waiting for her too. Hurry up, LOA, I have a little one here who can't wait to be a big sister to her little Mei-Mei (little sister);-)
I finished my first week at work and by Friday, I was feeling much better about placing customer's orders and answering questions about our stock of eye wear. I stuck gold when I landed this job! The 6 women I work with are so nice and go out of their way to help me and the two owners that I have met are such nice people. In between calls, we visit and catch up on everyones lives. I am so blessed to have found this position in this company. I found out this week, there are three owners and they aren't such a small company and they are in the process of buying another company so it is a great time to get in with this company, as it expands and grows. I don't know how I was so fortunate to be hired but I think God had a hand in this also. This job will afford us to adopt Meizi, sell our home and buy a larger one (which we will need with our growing family) move into a better neighborhood and put our kids through college. It is such a blessing!
Hopefully this will be our week to receive our LOA and we will know for sure that Meizi Meilin Rose will be our new daughter. Jade Lin is talking about her and her coming home, every day and she is so excited and tired of waiting for her too. Hurry up, LOA, I have a little one here who can't wait to be a big sister to her little Mei-Mei (little sister);-)
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Day 56! 2nd day of working full time
I finished my 2nd day of working full time and I feel better then I did yesterday. my work is extremely busy on Mondays, which is good for business but a little hairy when you are starting work for the first day and trying to absorb all you can. I went to sleep thinking about what I was suppose to remember from that day. I know after a week, I will remember how to enter orders, I just have to give myself a break and realize, it just takes time. It was only my 2nd day and my 1st day of entering orders and I made a mistake, which I felt awful about. I have a way of being really hard on myself about making mistakes and just hate it when I do. I know I'm going to after one day but I'm a perfectionist and really take it hard. I'm really excited to be working and I know I'm really going to like the people I work with, they are so nice and really helpful, it's just learning and feeling comfortable with what I'm suppose to know. I met the 2nd owner today and he is great too. I couldn't find a more wonderful place to work.
It's day 56 in the wait for our Letter of Acceptance to adopt Meizi. It's coming from China, from the Chinese Center Of Adoptive Affairs and parent's that had Log In Dates of April 1st through April 12th received their letters, so I know they really are being mailed out and our turn should be next! We have a Log In Date of April 24th, so we should be in the next batch, which could be in two weeks! Every time I get an e-mail or a phone call from our agency, I go nuts and my heart skips a beat thinking our agency is calling with our Letter Of Acceptance.
Hopefully, in two weeks, we will have our acceptance and can start waiting for our travel approval!!;-) Come on LOA's!!!!! Meizi is waiting
It's day 56 in the wait for our Letter of Acceptance to adopt Meizi. It's coming from China, from the Chinese Center Of Adoptive Affairs and parent's that had Log In Dates of April 1st through April 12th received their letters, so I know they really are being mailed out and our turn should be next! We have a Log In Date of April 24th, so we should be in the next batch, which could be in two weeks! Every time I get an e-mail or a phone call from our agency, I go nuts and my heart skips a beat thinking our agency is calling with our Letter Of Acceptance.
Hopefully, in two weeks, we will have our acceptance and can start waiting for our travel approval!!;-) Come on LOA's!!!!! Meizi is waiting
Friday, June 15, 2007
last week day that I will be home before starting full time work
I start full time work on Monday and today will be the last weekday that I'm home, unless I have to take a PTO day. I'm exhausted just thinking of it but excited to bring in a paycheck and contribute to our income too.
It is day 52 and I'm thinking of how to re-decorate the girl's room. I am having a custom made, wall mural made that I can paint myself. I'm having Elephantsonthewall.com
design it. I asked that they make me up a Chinese influenced, 2' wide mural with panda bears in bamboo, with butterflies and dragonflies flying round. I posted a photo of material that I have that I was thinking of having the mural designed after. It has a yellow backgound and I will be painting the girl's walls a dark pink on the bottom and a lighter pink on the top with a yellow ceiling so I'd like the mural to have a yellow background like the fabric. I think it will be sooo cute! I can't wait to start painting! It will feed my creative side and keep my hands and mind busy while we wait for Meizi;-)
I joined two new groups today. They are both groups for parent's that are adopting special needs children and are DTC or have a LID in April. It is nice to meet other parent's that are waiting for their Letters Of Acceptance and are adopting special needs children too. They sound like close groups and should be comforting and supportive.
I asked Scott if we should use part of Gao Shao Qiao's name, depending on what it means, for her middle name. I thought that Shaolin sounded pretty for a middle name but Scott thought it sounded like the Shaolin Monks. No wonder it sounded so familiar;-)
Happy Father's day to all the Baba's (Mandarin for Daddy) and Baba's that are waiting to become one;-)
It is day 52 and I'm thinking of how to re-decorate the girl's room. I am having a custom made, wall mural made that I can paint myself. I'm having Elephantsonthewall.com
design it. I asked that they make me up a Chinese influenced, 2' wide mural with panda bears in bamboo, with butterflies and dragonflies flying round. I posted a photo of material that I have that I was thinking of having the mural designed after. It has a yellow backgound and I will be painting the girl's walls a dark pink on the bottom and a lighter pink on the top with a yellow ceiling so I'd like the mural to have a yellow background like the fabric. I think it will be sooo cute! I can't wait to start painting! It will feed my creative side and keep my hands and mind busy while we wait for Meizi;-)
I joined two new groups today. They are both groups for parent's that are adopting special needs children and are DTC or have a LID in April. It is nice to meet other parent's that are waiting for their Letters Of Acceptance and are adopting special needs children too. They sound like close groups and should be comforting and supportive.
I asked Scott if we should use part of Gao Shao Qiao's name, depending on what it means, for her middle name. I thought that Shaolin sounded pretty for a middle name but Scott thought it sounded like the Shaolin Monks. No wonder it sounded so familiar;-)
Happy Father's day to all the Baba's (Mandarin for Daddy) and Baba's that are waiting to become one;-)
Thursday, June 14, 2007
What Shao Qiao's name means
My friend, Vicki who is waiting for her "Letter of Acceptance" has noticed that they are arriving about every three weeks so she thinks hers and ours could be here the last week in June. My mom's birthday is June 28th and that was the day our dossier went to China for Jade Lin. It would be so wonderful if we received our Letter of Acceptance to adopt Meizi on that day too! I'm keeping my fingers crossed and praying that it will be so!
I just e-mailed our adoption agency to find out what Meizi's Chinese name means. Hopefully Tu, our Liaison can find out from her orphanage what Shao Qiao means. I think we should keep her Chinese first or second name and use it combined with Lin, as her middle name. I love Meizi Meilin Rose but we kept Jade Lin's Chinese name, HuiXiang as her middle name and I would feel bad for Meizi if we didn't keep part of her Chinese name also. Hopefully we find out soon what Shao Qiao means and it means something beautiful or special. I think Shaolin sounds beautiful and would love to keep it as a middle name or combine it with her first name, Meizi Shaolin Rose, it has a nice sound to it doesn't it;-)
Day 51 and no call from our agency again today. I'm thinking my friend is right and we won't hear anything till the end of June. Hopefully we hear something on my Mom's birthday;-)Sweet Meizi, you have no idea how hard everyone is working to bring you home and how loved you are already. I am so thankful for your Jie-Jie Magan (big sister) because of her, I wanted to love and raise more little girls;-)
I just e-mailed our adoption agency to find out what Meizi's Chinese name means. Hopefully Tu, our Liaison can find out from her orphanage what Shao Qiao means. I think we should keep her Chinese first or second name and use it combined with Lin, as her middle name. I love Meizi Meilin Rose but we kept Jade Lin's Chinese name, HuiXiang as her middle name and I would feel bad for Meizi if we didn't keep part of her Chinese name also. Hopefully we find out soon what Shao Qiao means and it means something beautiful or special. I think Shaolin sounds beautiful and would love to keep it as a middle name or combine it with her first name, Meizi Shaolin Rose, it has a nice sound to it doesn't it;-)
Day 51 and no call from our agency again today. I'm thinking my friend is right and we won't hear anything till the end of June. Hopefully we hear something on my Mom's birthday;-)Sweet Meizi, you have no idea how hard everyone is working to bring you home and how loved you are already. I am so thankful for your Jie-Jie Magan (big sister) because of her, I wanted to love and raise more little girls;-)
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
OHHhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!! Day 50!!!!
Day 50!! and no word yet from our agency! DHL deliveries were made at 1:00pm so I'm hoping they are contacting people yet;-) Probably wishful thinking but it never hurts to wish;-)
I surprised and made my friend's day when I dropped off her son's comforter and sham set. She loved them and was so surprised which made me really happy, that I could add some happiness to her day. She is on day 100 today in the wait for her "Letter Of Approval" to adopt a little 3 year old boy from China and are two months ahead of us in the process. I really feel for her, they should have had their LOA by now and the wait is sooo hard! Hopefully we will both have good news soon!
Since it is day 50 and there was no news from our agency, I'm sharing Meizi Meilin's growth and development up-date with the world. I miss her so and it is a tribute to her. I never get tired of reading it or thinking of her. She is smaller at 18 1/2 months then Jade Lin was when we got her at a year old. She is 8kg= 17.9 lbs and 76cm=29 inches. Her physical development is normal. She is crawling, sitting and walking alone ( oh how I wish I saw her take her first steps!) Her hands and feet are strong and she can pick up small objects with her thumb and index finger;-)
Her mental development is good, too. She can understand and perform some simple instructions (I'm dreaming of saying "Give mommy a kiss;-) She can say "Mama" and "Baba" in Chinese ( I can't wait to hear that sweet word! Mama!)
She eats 4 meals a day at 7:00, 11:00, 15:00 and 20:00. She likes meat soup made of flour, and ground vegatables ( a meat and potatoes girl, just like her mom;-) She is mainly on formula bottles (Shen Yuan brand) which is why I'm sure she is so tiny yet. We will catch her up when she gets home;-) Plus she is on Henze Rice cereal. She is also given vitamin and calcium supplements.
She has good habits in sleeping (actual wording;-) she could sleep about 14 hours a day (Needs her sleep just like her big sister, Jade Lin who still takes naps at 5 years ;0) She could sleep on her own after taking a bottle. (We will have a dentist visit as soon as we get home) She takes a bath every day at 17:00. She poops once or twice a day (probably more info then you wanted but mommies love knowing this stuff;-)
She is outgoing and active in personality (YEAH! she will fit right in with our family;-)
She likes toys that make noise and playing with her friends in class ( Music toys and a keyboard for her 1st birthday with us;-)
A tribute for you, sweet Meizi Meilin Rose! We love you and miss you!!!!!!!! on this day 50 in our wait for our LOA to bring you home!!!!!
Jade Lin is napping so It's my time to shower and take care of me;-) Hopefully, Meizi
Meilin, we will hear good news today!!!
I surprised and made my friend's day when I dropped off her son's comforter and sham set. She loved them and was so surprised which made me really happy, that I could add some happiness to her day. She is on day 100 today in the wait for her "Letter Of Approval" to adopt a little 3 year old boy from China and are two months ahead of us in the process. I really feel for her, they should have had their LOA by now and the wait is sooo hard! Hopefully we will both have good news soon!
Since it is day 50 and there was no news from our agency, I'm sharing Meizi Meilin's growth and development up-date with the world. I miss her so and it is a tribute to her. I never get tired of reading it or thinking of her. She is smaller at 18 1/2 months then Jade Lin was when we got her at a year old. She is 8kg= 17.9 lbs and 76cm=29 inches. Her physical development is normal. She is crawling, sitting and walking alone ( oh how I wish I saw her take her first steps!) Her hands and feet are strong and she can pick up small objects with her thumb and index finger;-)
Her mental development is good, too. She can understand and perform some simple instructions (I'm dreaming of saying "Give mommy a kiss;-) She can say "Mama" and "Baba" in Chinese ( I can't wait to hear that sweet word! Mama!)
She eats 4 meals a day at 7:00, 11:00, 15:00 and 20:00. She likes meat soup made of flour, and ground vegatables ( a meat and potatoes girl, just like her mom;-) She is mainly on formula bottles (Shen Yuan brand) which is why I'm sure she is so tiny yet. We will catch her up when she gets home;-) Plus she is on Henze Rice cereal. She is also given vitamin and calcium supplements.
She has good habits in sleeping (actual wording;-) she could sleep about 14 hours a day (Needs her sleep just like her big sister, Jade Lin who still takes naps at 5 years ;0) She could sleep on her own after taking a bottle. (We will have a dentist visit as soon as we get home) She takes a bath every day at 17:00. She poops once or twice a day (probably more info then you wanted but mommies love knowing this stuff;-)
She is outgoing and active in personality (YEAH! she will fit right in with our family;-)
She likes toys that make noise and playing with her friends in class ( Music toys and a keyboard for her 1st birthday with us;-)
A tribute for you, sweet Meizi Meilin Rose! We love you and miss you!!!!!!!! on this day 50 in our wait for our LOA to bring you home!!!!!
Jade Lin is napping so It's my time to shower and take care of me;-) Hopefully, Meizi
Meilin, we will hear good news today!!!
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