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This spring I wrote a post called My Daughter's Death / His Other Moms . It's all about grief and loss -- my loss of my second ... -
My daughter, Sarah, died when she was only 24 days old.* While I was still recovering from childbirth, I attended a funeral with a tin... -
"After the adoption, if we could have found another more suitable family to take him, if we could have done it without hurting him fur... -
Dear Adoptive Moms - especially those of you who adopted older kids who came with a truckload of trauma -- I have something I need to sa... -
One of the things I missed by not having biological children was being awakened every two hours by a hungry newborn. The closest I ever c... -
International adoption, domestic adoption, foster care… how your precious little one came to you is a unique road. We have temporary cus... -
No kids were harmed in the writing of this post! "Remember when we were little and Mom used to reward us by giving us rocks?... -
Originally, when we traveled to China to adopt Wenxin, we gave him an American first, middle and last name. We followed the advice of ... -
Today I welcome Susan Perry to Death by Great Wall . Susan is the first blogger in a series of Monday posts by adult adoptees that I'm ...
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- 8/9/2009 - We filed a letter of intent to adopt Fan Wen Xin with the Chinese government.
- 10/1/2009 - We received pre-approval from the Chinese government to adopt Fan Wen Xin.
- 1/14/2010 - Homestudy completed!
- 1/19/2010 - i-800a filed with US Customs and Immigration
- 2/5/2010 - Began authenticating documents for our dossier
- 2/7/2010 - Passed Online Exam on Adoption Parenting
- 2/18/2010 - Fingerprinted by US Customs and Immigration
- 2/25/2010 - I-797 received from US Customs and Immigration
- 3/23/2010 - Mailed Dossier
- 4/6/10 - Dossier logged in with CCAA in China
- 5/2/2010 - Applied to Show Hope for an Adoption Grant
- 5/13 2010 - Finished Hague Online Training
- 5/17/2010 - LOA - It's official!
- 6/17/2010 - I-800 provisional approval
- 8/5/2010 - Travel Approval
- 9/1/2010 - Flew to Beijing
- 9/3/2010 - Picked up our new son at the orphanage
- 9/19/2010 - Arrived home in Florida
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