Saturday, 19. May 2007, 07:16:00
China has blocked Opera blogs. I'm planning to leave this up for awhile and eventually delete it. I will send everyone an e-mail about the new yahoo group I created. I was hoping to use this for our trip but it's not going to happen :-(
-R
Tuesday, 10. April 2007, 06:13:28
A fellow adoptive parent of an older adoptee wrote this piece...it's very moving:
http://siblings.adoptionblogs.com/weblogs/grieving-behaviors
-R
Monday, 2. April 2007, 06:46:27
Time in Hefei City, China
- R
Monday, 5. February 2007, 09:02:39
Yanghua lives in a foster village called the "Sunshine Village". From my understanding, the foster parents are hired by the Hefei City Children Welfare Institute and by an organization called Alliance Foundation (see link section). Usually, the foster parents are experienced and at least one parent (normally the foster father) works outside the home and the other parent takes care of the kids (they're married obviously!). Looks like there's 6 kids ranging from an older child to a small child.
Several families have graciously taken pictures of Yanghua while visiting or adopting their kids. People who have met Yanghua describe her as a pretty and pleasant personality. The foster mom mention she is helpful around the house and gets along with other people.
Yanghua has mentioned to other families and acquaintances that she's fully aware of her adoption and can't wait to meet us. It's good to hear this coming from her. It was one of our worries that she wouldn't be aware of the upcoming adoption. It appears that Yanghua is prepared and she is looking forward to the adoption...we will see!
Here are more recent pictures:
Saturday, 3. February 2007, 08:41:14
Early pictures of Yanghua.
I'm very grateful that so many people took the time to help us. We really appreciated everyone's generosity!!!! We received new pictures of Yanghua. The first picture are other Hefei kids who were recently adopted (one waiting). Yanghua looks very happy and sweet [we will find out very soon, ha ha ha]. Em looks sweet but we all know 
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