Happy Easter!....

Hello Everyone...Happy Easter! We had a nice quiet dinner at home with Mom and Dad after an early Easter service. The kids had great fun with their Easter baskets and finding eggs. Thank you God for this wonderful day and the reason we celebrate it.

Does Anyone Have a Match?...

....So I can lite a fire under the ass of this Judge. So much for thinking fast hearing , fast ruling. This adoption has now officially taken longer than with Rebecka. We all (including our agency) thought this one would fly by, since the orphange already knew us we thought we would get through quickly. See what I get for thinking. We are well past the 8 month mark which is when we got Rebecka (8months and 2 days). We are at 12 weeks in the courts and we got the call for Rebecka at 11 weeks. So as you can all imagine we are just about the end of our ropes with the wait. I talked to our agency yesterday and there was no news to tell us at all, all we can do it wait. wait wait wait. waahh waahh waahh. stay tuned, you'll hear me screaming from the rooftop when the call finally comes....

Frustration!....

hello everyone. I know the last time I updated we were expecting to get "The Call" any day. Well it's been weeks now, and still nothing. I've come to the conclusion we must have one of the infamous "slow" Judges we hear about and pray not to get.
You know when you get sick and finally give in to going to the doctor? It always seems like when you get there, you feel better. Well i'm hoping that if I send out my blog to everyone telling them we have not heard anything, my phone will ring soon. I'm willing to try anything at this point.
Everyone is tired of waiting, we are so ready to go get our daughter now. Please continue your prayers for us.
Jaclyn

Our Anniversary....

Today Eric and I celebrated our 12th Wedding Anniversary. We had a few hours to enjoy each other going out for dinner and just spending time together without the kids. Thank you Stephanie for babysitting for us.

Another week has passed without any word. I am beyond frustrated now, I was expecting to get the call two weeks ago. I guess I was getting ahead of myself. All we can do is keep waiting and hoping that the Judge has mercy on us soon.

Check out the Fingers....

Some of you may be thinking "why the heck would you want that?". But, there are many of you who know exactly why i'd want that. I thought this was the find of a lifetime when I saw it. All of us here in America know that this is the "peace" sign, but those of us with Chinese or Taiwanese children know this is what all the people do when having thier picture taken. I'm really not quite sure why, maybe someone can enlighten me on that. Rebecka says it just means "yaayyyy!".

When I brought it home the kids thought it was so cool. Stephanie (my exchange student) was bewildered as to why they would sell that here in America, I had to explain to her the meaning of it here. She had no idea.

No news on the waiting, except we are still waiting. It was very dissapointing to have the week come to an end with no call. God's timing Jaclyn, God's timing Jaclyn!

I Think We Are Getting Close!....

I don't want to get my hopes up, but I get the feeling we may be getting "THE CALL" anytime now. I could be getting ahead of myself, but I heard from my Adoption Agency today that they talked to Chung-Yi (orphange) and was told the hearing went very well. Although the birth Aunt did not show up to represent the family as expected, the judge was Ok with that and really didn't ask too many questions. He did speak with Xiao-Mei about her feelings regarding being adopted and she said she wanted to be adopted by the Carlisle Family (though i'm sure not in those words). That is good for us, it sounds like it's an open and shut case. The rest of the paperwork that gets finished by the Social Workers was done and handed into the court yesterday. Soooo, all we do now is wait for the judge to sign the paperwork and 10 days later it will finalized. Then we would travel 2-4 weeks after that. He could sign as soon as today or he could sit on it for a while. Lets just pray he is ready to get her to her family soon.

My brother Ron is coming tomorrow to help Eric put up French Doors in the front room so we can use it as a bedroom. We will move Josephs room to that room as soon as it is ready and then paint Xiao-Mei's room. Her furniture is ready to be delivered as soon as the room is ready. I think we need to start getting ready faster now!!!

Rayanna Recieved our Gifts....

After finding out that Rayanna never recieved our package we sent her for Christmas, we were very upset. I had sent her some special things including a photo album and a necklace. The necklace has a cross pendant and is the same one we had sent Rebecka in her first care package. Our agency worked hard to find out what happened to the package and why she never recieved it. Today I recieved update pictures of Rayanna with the package and the one we sent her 2 weeks ago. Better late than never and I was just relieved to see she had gotten it. She is wearing the necklace which was nice to see.

We have not recieved any word yet about the court hearing, but are still hoping to hear something soon.

Jaclyn