Okay, I have finally decided to come up to the 21st Century and start a blog about our adoption journey to finally meet our baby girl Mia. As most of you know, this has been an emotional, trying and lengthy journey, but one I would not trade for anything in the world! Our initial adoption journey began after failed attempts to get pregnant and the subsequent hysterectomy due to uterine cancer. In our hearts, I think we both knew we would end up building our family with adoption.
Kevin and I have been married 6 years (will be 7 in May) Wow! the time goes by so fast! We have always known we wanted at least one child but didn't really know what path we would travel to get there. I am adopted, so adoption has always been an option in our minds. We have 6 nephews and one niece. They are all so special to us and we love to spend whatever time with them that we can. We LOVE being Auntie and Uncle and cannot wait until we can introduce them all to their cousin Mia.
We chose to adopt from China for many reasons. Kevin thought she would identify with me because I am Asian, we knew we wanted a girl, the China program was very predictable at that time and the stories of the babies in China touched us tremendously. We began the adoption in January of 2005. After lots of paperwork, classes, appointments and anxiety, our paperwork was sent to China on 9/19/05. They logged our dossier in on 10/17/05 which is the magical date as it is in a sense the "day we get in line". From that point on, it has just been waiting, shopping for Mia and renewing paperwork.
The GREAT news is that China has matched babies to families who were logged in up until 10/13/05 so we are NEXT!!!
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