I've been following you for years though you don't know me. Still check you daily waiting for updates. Where do I send my email? I'd be so sad not to still follow.
Hi Sonia, I have missed you and your blog. You have such a wonderful way to express yourself. I love hearing about your seven boys. I bet they are all getting so big now. Time sure has a way of moving too fast. Would love to keep up with you through reading your blog. wendyhoff65@gmail.com
Sonia...I am SO happy for you to start blogging again!! You give my days more spark..I guess I am saying you Sparkle!! Please add me to your list. I would love to hear about your family and those LongGang boys or as my daughter says "Her foster brothers!" christiev1@yahoo.com thanks!!
I would love to continue to follow your blog! You are such a great writer and you always cheer me up! I really enjoy hearing about your boys. theoldsalt@att.net Thanks!
I've been checking once a month, hoping for this announcement! YAHOO!!! My name is Laurie, and my email address is: theloudenbacks@yahoo.com. SO happy to hear you're back! :)
Hi Sonia, I adopted a daughter from the same orphanage as your Jacob and Joey so I would love to continue to follow your blog. My name is Cindy. Email - pkm316@gmail.com
I've been following your blog since before Joey and Jacob joined your family and I really miss your updates! Please add me: zeisler_loren @ yahoo.co.uk
We brought home our daughter from China in July last year and are heading back this summer for our little boy! Would love to be able to follow along here - moschel89@gmail.com Thank you! Stephanie
Would love to be able to follow your blog. My husband and I are in the early, early stages of adoption and your posts have really quenched a thirst in me. Thank you in advance! eer.bell@gmail.com
I have following your blog for a long time, while we are completing our older child adoption from Vietnam. I would love to follow you still. heatherlbeadle@gmail.com
I've been following your blog for years, and would love to be able to keep following. I'm not an adoptive mom (or mom at all), but God has been leading me towards working in China in some way for years, and orphan care is certainly one of the things He has put on my heart. I've loved reading your posts over the years. :)
I recently found your blog though No hands But Ours and we are in the midst of our first adoption to bring home our daughter from Jining City, China (hoping to travel in the early fall). We would love to be able to follow your blog. rmthorpe81@hotmail.com
Sonia, I met you at GKTW when Sandy met you with Darren during his WISH trip. I would love to follow your blog! You have such a special place in our hearts since Sandy fell in love with Darren when you posted about him on your blog. Blessings........
Good Morning. You don't know me, but I've followed your blog for some time. I stumbled across your blog through a friend of mine. I have a heart for our Father God and I have a heart for adoption. It would be a pleasure to continue to follow you. vaughanc@lindsey.edu
You don't know me, but I stumbled upon your blog several years ago and have been a faithful reader. I don't have any children of my own yet, but love your realness, transparency, and most of all your sense of humor. So glad to see you back. Would love to continue to follow, youngmb11@gmail.com.
Hello! You don't know me, but I have followed your blog for some time. I am a single mom to two beautiful daughters home from Thailand and China. My girls are now 10 and 8, and they both have cerebral palsy. I would love to welcome home a third daughter if that is God's will. It would be a honor to continue following your blog. Thank you! haase_kdg@hotmail.com
Hi Sonia, I too have been following your blog since Jacob and Joey came home. I have 3 home grown teenage boys and 1 daughter (6) from the Philippines. I would love to follow along still. djmayers498@gmail.com
My aunt found your blog when they began the process of adopting their daughter from China! I would love to keep following your story! tanna.rbecker@gmail.com
I was just catching up and reading about Joshua. I am so happy to hear things are going well (now) ! I would love to continue to follow your story/blog. :) tbrunner@comcast.net
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Jacob & Joey ~ Home January 27th 2011
Joshua 1:9
Joshua ~ Home September 24th, 2011 where he went directly from the airport to the PICU; blue and dying of an unrepaired heart defect. 20 days later he RAN out pink and full of life. I stand amazed.
Jason, Jordan, Justin & Jack ~ Home since they emerged from my loins on their respective days of birth.
I am a forgiven sinner madly in love with my Savior and mother to many somewhat smelly boys who recently returned from China with our two latest additions Jacob & Joseph. Orphanage mates from infancy, 7 months apart and teaching me daily what real love is. 3 months home with Jacob and Joey I found Joshua. Blue, sick, dying and needing a family. 4 months later he was home, healed and leaving me in awe of the healing hand of God. Glory. To. HIM.
May 25th-June 14th 2011 - New Home study June 14th, 2011PA June 16th, 2011 - I-800A sent July 1st, 2011 - I-800A APPROVAL! July 8th, 2011 - DTC! July 11th, 2011 - LID August 1, 2011 - LSC! August 12th, 2011 - I-800 Approval August 19th, 2011 - NVC Cable August 26th, 2011 - Article 5 September 6th, 2011 - TA September 19, 2011 - Gotcha Day!
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Jack
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Joseph
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Questions? Comments? Encouragement? Want to know more about one of these kiddo's? mommyof4jays@msn.com
Wednesday, February 10, 2010 Made the final decision to adopt after months of prayer
Friday, February 12, 2010 Signed contract with adoption agency and contract to begin home study
Saturday, February 13, 2010 Announced to friends and family that we were adopting through a really fun guessing game on Facebook. :)
Wednesday, February 28, 2010 Precious boy #1 File Locked! LOI sent in!
Wednesday, March 3, 2010 First Home Study visit(though 99% of forms needed for HS completion are already done including requesting all state clearances....all 8 states....thank you Air Force!)
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 Second & Third Home Study visit
Tuesday, March 16, 2010 PA! (17 days from LOI)
Wednesday, March 31, 2010 Fourth and final Home Study visit and lunch at the Cheesecake Factory to celebrate!
Thursday, April 16, 2010 All dossier docs county certified and Secretary of State authenticated! Just waiting on the home study!
Monday, April 19, 2010 Home study done! It's at our agency getting reviewed!
Friday, April 30, 2010 Fingerprints released from fingerprint purgatory(8 1/2 weeks for FP processing)
Monday, May 3, 2010 Final draft with prints sent to agency
Monday, May 10, 2010 Home study officially approved
Tuesday, May 11, 2010 Drove to home study agency to pick up completed home study and overnight-ed I-800A to USCIS!
Tuesday, May 11, 2010 Found out Joey and another precious boy that we fell in love with months ago are in the same foster home and are best friends. Sent 8.2 million emails.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010 All dossier docs except Home Study and Immigration clearance sent to Chinese Consulate for Authentication.
Thursday, May 20, 2010 Agency #2 says yes, they will release kiddo #2's file!
Monday, May 31, 2010 Found out all of our dossier documents were rejected at the C.Consulate. They don't take Fed-Ex right now.
Wednesday, June 7, 2010 Our dossier documents finally return to us. We decide to use a courier for the Consulate this time. It worked, over $300 and a week later we had all of our dossier documents sans the home study and I797-C forms authenticated!
Monday, June 14, 2010 am Sent our dossier sans the home study and I-797C forms to our agency for review.
Monday, June 14, 2010 pm Found out that we received a request for evidence. Our dossier isn't going to China this week. This was a hard day.
Monday, June 21, 2010 Request for evidence resolved! Our I-797C is on it's way to us and we are trying to get our dossier to China this Friday!!
Wednesday, June 23, 2010 Everything that could go wrong. Did go wrong. Our dossier is not going to China this week.
Monday, June 28, 2010 Home Study and immigration approval are with the courier! Our agency should receive it all on Thursday, dare I say we may be DTC Friday?!
Friday, July 2, 2010 DTC!
Thursday, July 8, 2010 LID!
Wednesday, July 21, 2010 6:01pm Received a phone call that we have verbal permission from the CC*AA for the dual adoption. Cried like a baby.
Friday, July 30, 2010 After 9 days of both agencies working out the deets, we submitted the required paperwork to have his file officially transferred to our agency.
Monday, August 23, 2010 8:11am Received a phone call that the CCAA is skipping PA for Jacob and moving right into LSC "asap"!
Thursday, September 23, 2010 LSC X 2! (ASAP in Mandarin apparently means 4 weeks)
September 27th, 2010 I-800 mailed
October 27th, 2010 I-800 approved(adjudicator called to let me know, we haven't yet received it in the mail however)
Saturday, October 30th, 2010 I-800 approval arrived in the mail
Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010 Cabled!
Friday, November 5, 2010 NVC letter/DS-230 & LSC's back to China!
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