urgent adoption situations – nine children aging out

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All these children are currently on the shared list. Please contact Brooke at el_lauren@yahoo.com for more information. Paisley – April 1999 – Dandy Walker Syndrome Paisley ages out April 21st. After this time she will no longer be eligible for adoption. She needs a family that is logged in and either not matched yet or [...]

Who Are You Waiting For?

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Are you waiting for a referral? Are you waiting in the Waiting Child (SN) program or the traditional (NSN) program? Are you waiting for what seems like years? Or perhaps you have been waiting for years?Do you know who you are waiting for? A daughter younger than two years old perhaps? Or maybe she could [...]

Madison – Camp Rabbit 2

News from Sara Lang at Madison Adoption Associates – Camp Rabbit 2 is underway… Aleda, Diana, Lydia, and our volunteer doctor, Bonnie, are on their way to the Philadelphia Airport to begin the Journey of Hope that will be Camp Rabbit 2! Madison Adoption Associates will be meeting a wonderful group of children in Baoan, [...]

The Care and Keeping of the Broken Heart

Cross posted from my blog. There are photos of the hair transformation and products used, there. I tried to post them here, but had issues. I planned a different blog today. I planned to write about the care and keeping of Cheeky’s hair. We’ve had issues, you see. Food in the hair issues. Marker in [...]

What a Difference…

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There is nothing like looking at “before” and “after” pictures to see the difference a family makes. One year ago today, I wrote my post for NHBO from China.  I had just met {the day before} our 10th treasure  - Jubilee Promise!  Yesterday as I was looking at pictures from that day one year ago, [...]

Slipped through the cracks

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…but always in the hands of the Father. I’m talking about our son, Kooper. Nine months ago we met him for the first time. In April when we received his referral, we wondered why this 13 year old boy had to wait so long for a family to call his own. Little did we know, [...]

I’ll Say It

This post is one that has been brewing, stewing, soaking … whatever you want to call it … in my head for a LONG time. I just read the latest update on our agency’s blog. Here is an excerpt: The current wait time from LID to referral is 50-51 months with a trend of increasing [...]