WE HAVE MATCHING APPROVAL!!! I can't even tell you have excited we are. What has made this even more special is that we asked for prayer just yesterday. THANK YOU to everyone who prayed for us. God's faithfulness amazes us every step of the way in our journey. Thank you so much for being a part of this.
So what is "matching approval"???
This was the next big step we were waiting for. This is where the adoption unit in HK looked at his information and ours and decided we would be a good match. And now we can have contact with him. We also have MORE paperwork! We have to send more information to the U.S. Department of Immigration. We also get to send our package to our boy. It includes a University of Memphis t-shirt, some toy cars, a blanket that we have slept with to get our scent on, and a photo album we made of us, our family, and our friends. We are also going to work on a video to send him. We will do a tour of the house and the zoo. I also had a great idea to video us making a stuffed animal at Build-A-Bear and then taking the animal to him when we see him. We want the video to be fun and interesting so he will want to watch it over and over until we meet. While this approval is a major step our social worker said we are still a few months from traveling to go and get him. So we still have more waiting, but we see the light at the end of the tunnel!
Thanks again for praying! You will never know how much that means to us.
Katie
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Random
I'm sorry we haven't written anything in a while. Honestly, it is because we have had NO updates. NONE! Because of this, we are asking for your prayers...especially this week. Our little boy's birthday is Saturday. While we knew we would not have him on his birthday, we were hoping we would be able to have contact with him by now. B emailed our social worker on Monday to see if we could at least get a "Happy Birthday!" message to him and she said "no." :( I'm just sad. Our paper work has been in Hong Kong for almost 14 weeks. I'm ready for something...anything! If you will please just lift us up this week, that would be great. We are planning to celebrate by ourselves Saturday morning and will post pictures of it.
Next weekend my friends are throwing a shower for me in honor of his birthday. I can't wait!!! This will be my only shower. I have a special gift for all the hostesses and I'm so excited about it! Don't worry...I will post lots of pictures!
Last week I took a trip to the beach with some wonderful ladies. We had a great time and some much needed rest for all of us. While I was there I did a social media fast. I didn't check Facebook or Twitter all week. I highly recommend doing this. I think I might make it a monthly thing. I did check my email because I didn't want to miss anything from our social worker. I also continued to read the blogs I keep up with. I was reading the blog of one of B's friends who just adopted a child and I noticed a link to another blog. From there, I found another blog. This kept going and going. All these blogs were of multicultural, adopted families. It was extremely encouraging and informative. I'm so thankful for all the people who open up about their experiences and I hope one day to help others with ours. I'm going to try to post links to these blogs too and share some things I have learned. I want to go ahead and share one thing with you. One of the sites I found (and am now addicted to) is of a lady who has 10 children, 6 of which have been adopted from China. She should have 11 children but one died in May before she got her. She died because of a virus and a complex heart defect. To honor her daughter, that she never got to meet, she designed a t-shirt on a site that sells t-shirt to support adoptions, Wild Olive Tees. When you buy this shirt (here) 100% of the proceeds go to fund a heart surgery for an orphan in China. My shirt is on its way here! I will let you know how it fits. I wish they made it in the classic style, but oh well. This is of course close to my heart because of my little boy's heart condition. Please PLEASE go buy one!!!! You never know whose child you are helping...it might be yours one day!
Thanks for reading my randomness! And please remember to pray for us this week.
Katie
Next weekend my friends are throwing a shower for me in honor of his birthday. I can't wait!!! This will be my only shower. I have a special gift for all the hostesses and I'm so excited about it! Don't worry...I will post lots of pictures!
Last week I took a trip to the beach with some wonderful ladies. We had a great time and some much needed rest for all of us. While I was there I did a social media fast. I didn't check Facebook or Twitter all week. I highly recommend doing this. I think I might make it a monthly thing. I did check my email because I didn't want to miss anything from our social worker. I also continued to read the blogs I keep up with. I was reading the blog of one of B's friends who just adopted a child and I noticed a link to another blog. From there, I found another blog. This kept going and going. All these blogs were of multicultural, adopted families. It was extremely encouraging and informative. I'm so thankful for all the people who open up about their experiences and I hope one day to help others with ours. I'm going to try to post links to these blogs too and share some things I have learned. I want to go ahead and share one thing with you. One of the sites I found (and am now addicted to) is of a lady who has 10 children, 6 of which have been adopted from China. She should have 11 children but one died in May before she got her. She died because of a virus and a complex heart defect. To honor her daughter, that she never got to meet, she designed a t-shirt on a site that sells t-shirt to support adoptions, Wild Olive Tees. When you buy this shirt (here) 100% of the proceeds go to fund a heart surgery for an orphan in China. My shirt is on its way here! I will let you know how it fits. I wish they made it in the classic style, but oh well. This is of course close to my heart because of my little boy's heart condition. Please PLEASE go buy one!!!! You never know whose child you are helping...it might be yours one day!
Thanks for reading my randomness! And please remember to pray for us this week.
Katie
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