Update on our Adoption

Here is the latest update on this wonderful adoption story. I am such a slacker in posting on here, but know I must get better for our trip. On September 28, 2012 we got a call at 7:08 in the morning from our awesome social worker, Amy Hart. She said that Lily, the social worker in China has locked a file in for us. She wanted us to see her and pray about it. Well, I couldn't open it until 9:00 or so and when I did---oh man!! I wasn't expected to see everything--all of the severity of the special needs she has. WOW! But, we saw her face..... that says it all. We we expecting to get a 3-5 year old little girl, but we we matched with an almost 2 year old!!!! Amy said that Lily wanted us to see this little girl because she looks really good and healthy. I tracked down Dr. Parmer and had him look at her file along with the International Adoption Clinic doctors. Later on Saturday Lily sent us a video and email from her orphanage and we wrote a care plan for Xi Rong Wei to become our daughter!!! They call her Weiwei for short!!! We plan on calling her Aimee Love Wei Fox and she is absolutely beautiful!!!  I felt differently about this little girl---I don't know what it was, but I just knew she already had a hold on my heart. She does have some special needs that we had not even considered, but she can walk and crawl...so I think she will be just fine. Someone said that her special need is that she needs a mommy and daddy--and that sums it up!
This week I finally got on a yahoo group of people who have adopted from Wuxi City,China and there was a lady asking if anyone has adopted Rongwei! I almost screamed---well, I did scream! My heart jumped and immediately responded to her post. She said she was there in July and saw Rongwei and wondered if anyone had adopted her yet. She said she was precious and such a beautiful little girl! She was going to find some pictures of her for me. Later she sent me her post of her blog of going to the orphanage. I had already seen this post because I had googled Wuxi City Orphanage and it appeared. This is when it gets good---- her post was dated July 19--my birthday! I had prayed for God to do something BIG on my birthday. Our Dossier was sent on July 20, so I assumed that was close enough---but He went deeper and had someone see my daughter---look her in the eyes--on my actual birthday!!!! Never think He is not in the details!! I know it doesn't sound like much---but for me, I was like I was there with her!! The days are growing long and my patience is growing short....I am ready to get the LOA and start planning our trip to China!
I will post more later....very blessed....Laurie

First Post

Hi! This is the first attempt of posting anything on this blog. I am not a blogger or even a follower of blogs, but everyone keeps telling me to write this stuff down so I won't forget it. They are probably right, seeing that I lay awake at night wishing I had had more time in the day to do this sort of thing. SO, here it goes, the beginning--the great call, the pulling that changed my life forever. It wasn't a revelation or a bright light that went off telling us to add to our family. It was a series of whispers over a period of years that made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. It was the laughter of a little girl that pierced my heart and took my breath away. It was a run early in the morning and the music caused me to stop and wail. (The music was downloaded 2 years before I listened to it--all part of the Big plan.) It was the prodding of a little girl that said there is always enough room. It was the silence of a husband on an elliptical machine--thinking, praying, waiting. It was the fatness that we felt after a Bible Study of what we have been given and what is required of us. It was the quitting of a job in the rat race to get more that made us think. Ultimately is was the draw of a Savior who said that our family wasn't complete that made this journey start. I wish I could say it was a moment, but it was a conglomeration of several things that made us jump, but He works differently with everyone. This is the race He has set before us--so we are off and running!