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.
2 comments:
What a beautiful story! I'll bet Ai-Ai is really excited about getting a sister, especially one she knows so well. Thanks for letting us share in your journey. We wish you a speedy process.
- Judy K.
www.wonderchildherewecome.blogspot.com
Wow. That's a great story! I'm excited to be able to follow along as you go back for #2! I have a coworker that is following a similar path. She adopted a sibling set from Russia last year, two teenage girls and a younger boy. Now she's in-process to adopt the teenagers' best friend that is still back in Russia. Very exciting. :)
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