3 years waiting

Today is our 3 year anniversary of being logged into China for adoption. It is still amazing to us how this could take so long. China has referred children to those logged in as of 3/14/2006. In June of 2008 they had referred up to 1/20/06, that's less than 2 months in the entire year.

We now estimate it could take another year to 18 months before we will get the call for Hannah. With that in mind Rachael and I have decided to renew our paperwork for South Korea and keep our eyes on the waiting child lists. Adopting James was such a wonderful experience we feel that is what we need to do and give the rest to God. We will continue moving forward and if China does happen so be it and if it doesn't it just wasn't meant to be.

We are visiting Wide Horizons for Children next week in Massachusetts. They are the agency whom helped us to adopt James along with Catholic Charities. We just want to thank them in person.

Something special

After searching for a while on the Internet and a whole year after Rachael's brother Anthony passed away we have finally found his daughters and their mother Krista. They have been living in Japan for five years. Both Rachael and Krista are happy to have talked and we will get to see the girls and their little brother this summer when they come to the states to visit. We can't wait...