Tuesday, April 12, 2011
In case you were wondering...
The answer is China. Once the Ethiopian adoption process changed so drastically, we had a couple of options-- we could stick with Ethiopia and hope for the best, we could bag the whole thing, or we could look at other countries. When we first started exploring international adoption, we thought we'd adopt a special needs child from China, but there were so many other places that interested us, so we looked at Korea, and then at Ethiopia. Finally, we came full-circle back to China. We're collecting items for our dossier now (a big ole packet of papers to send to the Chinese government) and it will probably be about a year (at least) until we travel to China to pick up our child, but that's the plan. At least for now.
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6 comments:
nǐ hǎo!
(that's all I got. for now)
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Congrats, Shelah! My aunt adopted a little girl from China 5 years ago (right before they tightened things up and slowed the process way down) and she's an amazing kid. They went through Wasatch International. Is that who you're using?
Some of my ABQ friends, parents of four kids 10 and under, adopted an 8-year-old girl from China. Then they transferred to Beijing! Whole new life!
Good luck, that sounds really great!
Do you remember Mrs. Maggie from Challenger and her daughter she adopted from China? Well, did you know she adopted an 18 month old boy last year from China and of all the places, he ended up being from the same orphanage?
Anyway, best wishes to you, I hope it all goes smoothly.
Congratulations!! I am fond of that part of the world. Lucky, blessed child.
Ah, what? I'm obviously very behind on your life. That is so exciting!
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