But it went so QUICKLY!...

Here is a wonderful blog post by a woman who has adopted 4 children from china in four years, whom, added to her 4 bios, makes a family of eight. An anonymous commenter suggested it wasn't fair that she got four children in four years, while others are waiting two to five years now, for a single child from China. This is her answer. And I am really not religious, and don't go by the "God's Plan" view of things, but re the children, the unfairness, and how important it is to keep one's heart open, she is spot on.

The Dao is just the best thing to happen to me, such a sweet and wonderful kid, and healthy as a horse. I cannot believe what I would have missed if I had refused a referral for a boy, a boy over a year old, with a cleft lip, and unrepaired 3rd degree cleft palate. Hah, I would still be sitting here alone now, with an empty room MEANT to hold a baby, lonely and childless, blogging about The Wait....

When I think of all the little boys in the photos of him in his orphanage, all those little boys who need mamas and homes, I could cry. I hope many more will consider their choices, and go for the "unfairly fast line"....

Comments

[Jen]

The Dao is a pretty lucky kid!

[Leanne]

Well, I guess it actually is true. Not to have me... I am so lucky to have him. But that someone found a day old baby and took him where he would be well cared for and loved for two years, that someone bothered to suggest him for adoption and do all the paperwork in order to give him a referral to us here overseas. To go from being a tiny helpless baby who wasn't even capable of sucking to being a rather spoiled pudgy kid whose surgery was paid for (in China), with a mama, here in Quebec, is pretty cool. And to go from being an infertile single woman past 40, sitting at home with my dog and cats, to being accepted to fly across the seas to another country and being gifted a child to raise as her own, that is pretty cool and lucky too. ;D

[Jen]

I guess you both are lucky and you found each other when you needed each other.