Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Unexpected Delay

I recieved an E-Mail from my Adoption Agency stating the birth mothers Social Worker was requesting more family pictures before she would give her approval for the adoption. This confuses me a bit since I was under the impression the birth mother has not been involved. I'm not sure what the story is, but I will do as they ask. I've E-Mailed the best family pictures I could find. This is very dissapointing since I was hoping to recieve our contracts any day. Hopefully this will not cause too much of a delay.

Sunday, October 21, 2007

Rebecka's Gotcha Day Party




Today we had a big Gotcha Day Party to celebrate with family and friends. It was a great turnout and we had a blast. The kids of course enjoyed the swimming, even thought the water was ice cold. (to me anyway). They really loved decorating the cupcakes in an ice cream cone. Instead of having a cake I decided the kids would really have fun decorating cupcakes that I baked inside ice cream cones. It was a big hit and the kids made one for all the adults too. The girls did each others nails (and some of the guests too) . Thank you so much to Tracy and her girls and Penny and Alli for coming, it was so great to have some adoption friends there to celebrate with us. Thank you to my best friend Shona for being there, and everyone who came to make this day special.
Heres to many more Gotcha Days to celebrate!!!!!!

Friday, October 19, 2007

Stephanie



Introducing Fu-Ning "Stephanie" Chang.

Steph is our exchange student from Taiwan, she is from the same city as Rebecka. She will be staying with us for the school year this year, she is in the 11th grade. We are very happy to have her here and she is a big help to us. The weird thing is She and Rebecka do not speak Chinese to each other. Go Figure. We have alot of fun cooking together making sushi and steamed dumplings . she is also a pro at making the perfect rice.

We are blessed to have her with us and will miss her terrably when we have to say gooodbye next Spring.

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Xiao-Mei




Introducing Xiao-Mei. We are using Families For Children for this adoption. We have completed our homestudy and our dossier along with our family letter and photo album. I believe it has all been sent to Taiwan. We are waiting official approval from the orphanage and then we should recieve our documents. So the wait begins....

Rebecka Ai-Ai


Yesterday we celebrated our first Gotcha Day Anniversary with Rebecka. I made her favorite dinner (steak and noodles) and we had a cake and sang..Happy Gotcha Day to you...Happy Gotcha Day to you...Happy Gotcha dayyy tooo Reeebeckkkkaaa...Happy Gotcha Day to you. I bet you've heard the tune before...LOL...pretty ingenous huh?

This saturday we are having a big party to celebrate with family and friends.

The Journey Begins...Again



October 16th, 2007


WE are Eric and Jaclyn from Florida. We have a biological son Jesse (11), and I also have a son Joseph (14). Last year on October 16th 2006 Eric and I picked up our beautiful Taiwanese Princess ,Rebecka Ai-Ai (11) from Chung-Yi Childrens Home. We are now beginning the process of adopting our second daughter from Chung-Yi.

I didn't have a blog when we adopted Rebecka so i'd like to backtrack a little bit.
Eric and I have been married 11 years , and have two wonderful bio boys Joe and Jesse.
We had heard an advertisement on The Joy FM which is a Christian radio station here in Florida, about an adoption agency called Florida Homestudies and Adoption. After hearing the advertisement a few times we started to think about adoption more. Now, let me tell you I don't know what happened it had to be Gods plan for us because I never would have thought of us as the type of family to adopt. I meen we had children of our own and felt (i thought) that our family was complete. God had other plans. Eric came home from work one day with this agency on his mind again after hearing the ad on his way home, he said there was a web site and thought we should check it out. We looked them up , this was a Friday, the next day they were having a seminar in Orlando about adoption, so I called the number and signed us up. We went to the seminar and listened to the information given to us. That Monday I called the agency to ask for more info. I told her maybe, (and I meant maybe) we might think about adopting an older girl. I had done the baby thing two times and was all set with that. The lady told me they just got the file on this little girl and asked if i'd like to see it. We said sure, it won't hurt to look. She E-Mailed is the file and when we opened the picture, we saw the most beautiful little girl we'd ever seen. We fell in love instantly, Eric looked at me and said "thats our daughter". Eight months later Eric and I traveled to Taiwan to pick up our daughter. She has made an amazing adjustment and is very loving and happy to be with us.
Now we have decided to adopt one more time. This time a friend of Rebecka's from Chung-Yi. She is very excited to be getting her friend as her new sister.