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So we are nearing the end of the month and so much has taken place in the past thirty days to bring us so much closer to meeting our little girl - whoever she is..... We have successfully completed ALL the paperwork, interviews, dossier work and have just received our FINAL part - our approval from USCIS stating that we are fit to adopt internationally!!! This approval, by the way, came in record time according to our agency - it took less than a week to get it - who gets anything that quickly from a government agency when you are not standing right in front of them waiting?!  This means that our file, which has been waiting at our agency office for this final piece of paper, can now be sent off for translation and then on to the People's Republic of China :) This is beyond exciting.  As a matter of fact I have only just now been able to sit down and write about it - it is just so big and had to sink in a little while.  I am confident that our daughter is out th...

What you are about to read was sent to me by my mother in law today, Derek's mom Jeannie.  She wrote it this morning and emailed it to us to read. When I started reading it I thought it was a "forward" and thought that it sounded so similar to the story we were currently in the middle of in our own lives.  By the end I realized that it was written for us, for our daughter and as a message available to anyone who desire to receive it by our own precious Jeannie. What a treasure!  A Redemption Story - Two Adoptions Psalms 111:9a  He provided redemption for his people. A little girl is waiting in a crowded orphanage in a city someplace in the huge country of China .  As she accepts the daily routine of living day to day, she has no idea of the price that has been paid for her. The price is high, not only monetarily, but in the laboring of mountainous paperwork, meetings, interviews, visits, phone calls, letters, notarizing, and more paperwo...