Adoption & Older Child Adoption
In addition to my love of photography, I have a passion for adoption.
I am the proud mother to three beautiful girls that were born in my heart.
We adopted Leila from Moscow, Russia at 32-months old and Mia from Jiangsu Province, China at 13-months old.
We thought we were done at two, until God led us on another journey to China -
this time to bring home our, then 11-year old, daughter, Kara in July 2009.
I am also the proud Aunt to two nephews, born in Guatemala, and a niece, born in China.
My goal is to use this space to share how God has blessed our family and possibly open an eye
or two to the overwhelming need to support the 147 million orphans both here and around the world.

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Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Care Package #1 Has Arrived!

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON MY PERSONAL BLOG ON 3/23/09


I have been tracking the progress of Da Xin's first care package and just found that it has arrived at the orphanage several hours ago. I am not sure how long it will take to get to Da Xin, who is living in foster care, but I am excited that she will be getting it SOON!!! To think that she will soon be seeing pictures of her forever family, including her grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins. Oh, I hope she likes us!! I so wish I could find out what her reaction is.

Of course, I hope she gets all of the contents, too, along with the money we sent her. Since she is 10, our agency suggested we send her some Yuan so that she could write us back. I am so excited to think that we could be receiving a letter from her in the near future. Our agency will translate it for us, thankfully.

Care Package 1

I don't think I've mentioned this, but Da Xin's measurements are identical to Leila's. Identical!! So, Leila was our clothes model for the care package. I'm hoping the measurements are accurate and that everything fits her. We enclosed four disposable cameras and asked her to take pics of her friends, teachers, caregivers/foster family and her favorite places. In the next care package, I'd love to send something to her foster family. Anyone have any ideas?

I know one thing... I need to cut back on the size of the next package. Shipping to China is so not inexpensive. Ouch!!
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