Sunday, March 24, 2013

Recently, a fellow adoptive parent went to Shangha* to pick up her little one and took some pictures. Our Ann-Jolie was in several of these pics!

I cropped out the other little ones for their privacy...Here's Ann-Jolie only a couple of weeks ago!  I can't wait to hug her neck!













Here we go!

Here we go....again!

This time to Shanghai.  I honestly didn't know if I'd ever adopt again; not gonna lie, 1st time around was a VERY tad bit rough.  But all is well...and all is settled, and life is sweet.  Don't you know that's when God's gonna hit you up to do something out of your comfort zone?  Right when you sit back, sigh, and say, "Ok, now we can move forward into the future." Yep...That's when God says, "Ummmmm, hey! I got something for you to do!"

We bucked at first...I was like, "No!!! Not again! Not now! Things are just settled!"

Then there was the "what if's" and the "why we can'ts"...God wasn't falling for it..."Nice try," He said, lol!

After having my little temper tantrum, I finally surrendered; knowing that if you don't do God's will, you'll be a miserable human being.  I want no regrets....I have enough already.

The day before we found our little girl, I prayed...

"Dear Lord, if you want me to do this, I will...BUT I'm asking that we find our daughter tomorrow."  I went to sleep determined to find our little one the next day.

I searched and prayed and prayed and searched...Long story short, I found her...Her file had been sent to me almost 2 weeks prior.  I had skipped over her bc I thought her special needs were too many; I didn't understand her file...

"Awwww, what the heck," I said. "I'll just send her file to Dr. J to be reviewed and see what she says.

2 hours later I got an unexpected call and an unexpected GREAT review of our little one's file!

She is all fixed!

Well....Fast forward to March 19th...We sent off to Ch*na for pre-approval....March 21st we got it!  Unheard of to have such a quick turn around!!! Hopefully this is a sign of how quickly this whole thing is going to move.

We should have all of our paper work off to Ch*na by May and hopefully we'll get to go get our new addition in September!

Here we go again!  I couldn't be more excited!  She's beautiful and I know she's made for us...Just like we're made for her...
I'll be keeping you all posted here as much as possible.

Thanks for following along!