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Adoption Update April 2012
We just heard from our social worker . . . and she wants to meet this weekend to wrap up our home study before changes take effect in May for China’s updates on home study requirements. Something about that “it only takes 2 weeks to finalize a home study” time estimate tells me that if [...]
Quilt Wishes #1-3
We recently received the first quilt wishes that I’ll use to piece our daughter’s quilt. Imma sent them along with well wishes all the way from Spain. She learned about quilt wishes, and decided to piece one together for her son Andreu. Sweet Imma and I exchanged fabric squares and wishes. Look at the fabric [...]
{Adoption} Home Study Begins
“Social worker” is already a vocabulary word our four year-old knows quite well. Ever since we read him the darling book Waiting for May back in December, he’s memorized every concept and taken it to heart. He thinks that every adoption experience the boy and his family endured, he will endure as well. Like the [...]
Adoption Process – My Other Part-Time Job
I’ve resigned from other extra-curricular and volunteer positions so that I have time to breathe and balance my most important commitments. Regardless, I don’t feel like I have any extra time because the adoption process is like a part-time job. The difference compared to my part-time practice is that my chiropractic job is really a [...]
100 Wishes Quilt
While going through this adoption journey, we’ve learned about the 100 good wishes quilt tradition or bai jia bei. Stemming from northern China, the tradition is when a new baby comes into a home, friends and family shower the beautiful new life with pieces of cloth and their hopes, wishes, and prayers for blessings of [...]
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