Our entire China trip was scheduled around this most important appointment. Adoptive parents spend a week in the child's province doing China paperwork and then a week in Guangzhou for US paperwork. On Wednesday morning, our group arrived at the Consulate General of the United States of America ready to get official.
Outside the building was a long line of Chinese nationals waiting in line for visas to travel to the US. Thankfully, we were ushered in for an appointment just for our group. The building is new and the process was so much more efficient than Claire's. We earnestly love China, but there is always such a feeling of patriotism standing on US embassy grounds.
We all stood with hands raised promising to care for our children and never abandon them. We then were called up by family to talk through our paperwork and get more fingerprints. The feeling is SUCH a rush. Such a sense of completion after such a hard fight. We feel like we literally had battled for three years to get to that morning. So many roadblocks, but all broken through in God's most perfect timing.
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Safe travels home. Continued blessings.
This is such a beautiful picture. So glad you are home with these two sweet little ones"
So special. Such lovely family pictures. Thinking of you and wishing you safe travels.
Congrates and precious photos!!!!!! XO
I am the person that shows up as from 'Wake Forest, North Carolina'
on the tracker on your blog (not sure why, I'm in Raleigh!) I've been checking this blog many times over the years, and lately, many times a day to see if you'd posted any more of your adventures in China. How you manage to put in such great updates while balancing out the travel around China to adopt two sweet kids amazes me...and I'm already amazed by all both of you have done. I am so happy for your family of six; thinking nothing but good thoughts for you all! Maybe some year you will be in JC for Christmas, we go up every year and stay with my parents on Pamela Drive, just down the street from DJ's parents. If our paths happened to cross I would love to see you all in person. Last time I saw Mark was ...a lifetime ago, at DJ's house. When he had a full head of hair! I hope the flight home wasn't too difficult and you're getting used to the new normal of 4 kids!! Take care; you certainly got a couple of awesome Christmas presents. Amy (Mihalko) Vignola
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