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Our Adoption Story

Part 1--the Beginning
Part 2--Why China?
Part 3--Why Now? (or actually 5 Years ago?)
Part 3b--Leap of Faith
Part 4a--While We Waited, Year 1 
Part 4b--While We Waited, Year 2
Part 4c--While We Waited, Year 3  
Part 4d--While We Waited, Year 4
Part 5--Why a Girl?
Part 6a--Why Not Special Needs?
Part 6b--Why Not Special Needs? 
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China's Waiting Children (from Ordinary Miracles & The Crazy 9)

Our Time Line

L.I.D. 8/15/2006
I-800A Approval 12/23/2011
Referral 1/19/2012
I-800 Receipt 1/25/2012
I-800 2/6/2012
NVC 2/13/2012
NVC PDF 2/14/2012
Art 5 2/21/2012-3/6/2012
TA 3/22/2012
Leave for China 5/2/2012
Metcha 5/6 or 5/7/2012
CA 5/14/2012
Home from China 5/16/2012

Why I Blog?

Thank you for visiting. I hope you enjoy your stay. My blog is not as informative as some, as touching as others, or as spiritual as some of my favorites. It isn't even very funny. However, I am finding it to be my home. A place where I can verbally process every thought that needs processing. My goal in writing is to figure out what I think and believe particularly in regards to adoption. I hope to do this all with a Biblical worldview so I can be the best mother, wife, and child of God I am capable of being. I hope my honest thoughts and struggles can help others, but over all, I am doing this for me--Because I am an imperfect Christian who is still learning, still growing, and still striving to be more like Jesus.

"Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect, but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus. Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus." Philippians 3:12-14

So stay and browse. Get to know me and my thoughts and prayers. Hear how adoption has impacted my life. Share with me who you are. Let me know if anything I have written helps you, and IF you can speak the truth in love, let me know where you see me needing growth.

Adoption Blog/Forums

  • www.wearegraftedin.com
    {Hitting Repeat} I think I’m always looking for a baby.
    11 years ago
  • China Adopt Talk

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Adoption Blog List

  • The Chronicles of Munchkin Land
    壁面緑化をすることによって環境などにどう影響があるのか
    4 years ago
  • Ordinary Miracles and the Crazy 9
    5 years ago
  • Forever Family - A Waiting Child Adoption (Special Needs Older Child Adoption From China)
    Travelling is Fun!
    5 years ago
  • The Declassified Adoptee
    Dumping a Social Worker's Cards on the Table: Adoption Cannot Solve Abortion
    6 years ago
  • Throwing our arms open wide...
    Fixing Our Eyes
    7 years ago
  • Our Bigger Picture.....
    Taking Over Mom's Blog!!!!
    8 years ago
  • The Milfords
    Happy 9th Birthday Kate!
    8 years ago
  • Just a MINute mom
    Graduates
    9 years ago
  • Our Little Tongginator
    Chinese New Year Chapter Books for Older Kids
    9 years ago
  • A Place Called Simplicity
    My Daughter!
    10 years ago
  • Letters To Maggie
    Four Years
    10 years ago
  • Afamily4Him
    Peter's 1 year Anniversary part 2
    10 years ago
  • Our Beautifully Ordinary Life
    7 Years Ago
    10 years ago
  • Ainsley's Little Sister
    Loss
    10 years ago
  • No Greater Love
    The Post You’ve Been Waiting For……
    11 years ago
  • We Are Family
    What Was I Thinking?
    11 years ago
  • Bringing Home Mei Mei
    Repurposed
    12 years ago
  • Our Adoption Journey
    Jaxson's Birthday!
    12 years ago
  • Waiting for our Princess
    Our blog address to our trip!!
    13 years ago
  • And Then There Were Seven
  • Musings of the Lame; life as a birthmother in adoption
  • Ni Hao Y'all

Friends

  • The Johnson Family
    April 2020!
    6 months ago
  • Julie and Rob
    Things Are Jumpin’
    12 years ago
  • The Butts family
    Look-alikes
    12 years ago
  • it just gets weirder from here!
    April 2011
    13 years ago

About Me

Cedar
Mom to 4 children; Wife to one man; Servant to one God.
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