January 22, 2011
Today our local Families With Children From China group met for lunch and then a shopping trip to pick out new outfits for the upcoming Chinese New Year. I have been a part of this group for five years, two of those years spent waiting for Catherine. The group languished for a bit but with [...]
June 15, 2010
There have been many times where I have heard new mothers talk about their newborn child by saying, ‘He’s so beautiful and he is all mine!” And every time I hear that phrase, it hurts my heart because I cannot same the same about my daughter. I can only say, ‘She is so beautiful and [...]
May 21, 2010
Every Sunday I wholeheartedly look forward to the adoption links posting on the Our Little Tongginator. Tonggu’s mom does a fabulous job of compiling a list of articles and blog postings that have been written from the perspectives of adoptees, birth parents, and adoptive parents. As an adoptive mother, it would be easy for her [...]
May 6, 2010
While we were waiting for Catherine, I thought often about how we would honor her birthparents. I read many ideas from other parents and adopted children, many of them were very good ideas. I felt that the best way for our family to remember her mother and father in China was to release a balloon [...]
February 4, 2010
Two years ago today we received our referral for Catherine. What an amazing ride this has been. It’s so hard to believe that it was years ago and not months ago. It seems like yesterday we got these two cute little photos of her. The first thing that I noticed was her hair. She has [...]
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