(Josie) Guo Ling: We Made it Home!

I had friended your site some time ago but for some reason updates weren't showing on my Google dashboard.  Your daughter is precious, I'm glad you all made it home safely, and hope that everything is going well in the New Year!

The Winter of Our Lives

My mother is sleeping more each day and eventually will sleep forever. I have profound reflections on this time in our family's life but they are still sorting themselves into words and we're not done yet so they will keep for now.

Happy Holidays

I will post photos of this year's Christmas celebrations to my family blog, but I hope that all of you have a wonderful holiday season and are touched by the spirit of Christmas.

Ruby

The Status of Things & Blog Reminder

Our homestudy is done and approved by our agency. Our I-800A was processed and we received fingerprint appointments; we had to send them back with a reschedule date request because our daughter is in another state for college and can only do them on Friday, so we should have new appointments in the mail this week. We've sent for new police background checks so they'll be current-we usually get them back in about five days. Our accountant is mailing us a letter to verify my husband's self-employed status. So I think that means that once the prints are done, we'll have everything ready to go to the state. Our state is super efficient, so that's about a one hour visit.

Also, just want to remind you that we keep a family website at http://gentleyears.weebly.com and this is where I do regular blog updates. I had to create the google identity in order to follow other people on their blogs. Oh, and thanks for following!

The Waiting Game

Still waiting for paperwork on our next adoption. Have a homestudy done, currently being reviewed by our agency, they've had it at least a week. Seems that every time we reach another stage, I'm both desperate for it to be done quickly and also wanting it to take its natural course.

That's Eva to the right of a little girl, Faith, who has been home for six months now.

The Latest Updates

We are working on adoption #2, almost done with the paperchase, have identified and matched with a six year old girl with club feet from Guizhou. Please follow our journey at: http://gentleyears.weebly.com

Our Adoption Journey to Kazakhstan: Memory Lane

Our Adoption Journey to Kazakhstan: Memory Lane

What an adorable little moppet, then and now.

Working on our second adoption. Have received the child abuse clearances, set up the homestudy appointment, and applied for both police clearances and vital records copies.

My Three Sons

Summertime

Please see our website for other photos

Here is our happy boy, waiting for me to say "green light" so that he can ride down the hill. I am trying to help him learn colors through the three lights on the traffic signs, among other things.

Thought I had better put a recent photo on this blog so that they don't cancel it for lack of use.

For more photos and family updates, please see my website.

Website Address

I just realized that I never put our website on this blog, yet I use this blog address to post to other people's web pages. I just found it easier to keep a web page-so many blogs can't be opened when you have firewall protections. So here is our site if you'd like to see more about us:

http://gentleyears.weebly.com/

2008-New Year Here and There

It is February and Tet is over, marking a new year both here and in China. After more than two years of waiting, I feel hopeful that our time is drawing close and that by summer we will have a referral.