Closer and closer

We are getting closer to bringing our dear daughter home. AAC (our adoption agency) is absolutely wonderful. I cannot say enough about Marcie and Nicole and their helpful, kind hearts. We just learned yesterday the Madison more than likely knows that she has a family. This made me extremely emotional on many levels. I am going to send her more photos and a letter that will be translated. I realize she may not be as excited to be with us as we are to have her. She will be leaving everything she knows. I pray that we will know how to help her feel safe, loved and comfortable. I am amazed at the love God has placed in my heart for a child I have yet to hold. Thank you Lord!

The Power of Prayer

On Sunday, Novemeber 28th I reached out to my facebook friends for prayer that our LOA (letter of acceptance) would arrive this week. On Monday at 4:00 PM we received a phone call from Marcey at AAC (our adoption agency) that our LOA had arrived. Marcey worked very hard to get everything we need for the next step overnighted to us. Thank you God!!!  And thank you friends for the prayers. Madison we are doing everything we can to get to as soon as possible!

Waiting...And one more round of shirts.

Here we are. Life still going on here as it is in China. Madison is growing and changing the boys are growing and changing. Hopefully in less than 4 months they will be doing that together. I had a dream one night of the first time I held Madison. It was magical but waking was oh so dissapointing. All in God's timing I remind myself.
We are still waiting on our LOA (30 days now). Praying that it comes this week. We are doing one more T shirt order thanks to all of the wonderful people who have supported us and have been wearing their shirts. The shirts can be ordered from here by using paypal, facebook by messaging me or any other way you can contact me.
Asking for prayers for myself for patience and acceptance and prayers for all the waiting children who need homes.

To Madison, Mommy can't wait to meet you my sweet princess.

T Shirts and LID

Good news abounds! We were LID (log in date) 10/21/2010; 8 days after DTC. The T-shirts are in and most are delivered or in the hands of the US Postal Service. They turned out very nice. I am hoping to need to place another order.
I am praying that Madison is feeling loved. We are hoping that she will receive the gift package we sent with the photo book.
The waiting seems to be getting more difficult as the process moves along. I am guessing that this is normal. It is hard to know that you have a child half a world away and cannot kiss or care for her. All in God's perfect timing I keep reminding myself.

DTC (dossier to China, i.e. our paperbaby)

We are officially DTC! I am praying for the quickest of possible turn around on all processes and paperwork. I am sure I am not the only waiting parent praying for that. I am also praying that we will have Madison in our arms in February and no later.....I certainly wouldn't complain about sooner! We would love to have the prayers of others to help us along the way. The support we have already received is unbelievable. We are so very blessed!

Our first introduction:

http://www.clarkcolor.com/clark/projectshareewelcome/l=5232050002/p=652111286796476116/g=79475266/cobrandOid=1003/COBRAND_NAME=clark/otsc=SYE/otsi=SPBKlink/

This will be on it's way to Madison along with some gifts for her and the other children in her orphanage shortly. :)

Dear Madison

Dear Madison,

Hi Madison. This is Mommy. I know you don't know me yet. You don't even know you have a family yet; but you do and we love you very much. We cannot wait to meet you. You have a wonderful Daddy and two very sweet (most of the time) brothers.
We are praying for you every day. I hope that you have lots of friends and wonderful, loving nannies. I know it will be scary coming home with us. We will look different than you, talk different than you but we promise to love you. I think you may bond with your brothers before Daddy or myself and that is okay. We will be very patient. We are learning patience now as we are at the mercy of many government agencies in getting you home. God is teaching us many lessons through you and we have yet to hold you in our arms.
Thank you ,our precious Madison, for teaching us what is truly important in life.

Mommy loves you and am yearning for the night when I can tuck you in your bed, say your bedtime prayers with you and kiss your angelic face.

All of my love my Dear Princess Madison.....

Mommy

Men

Where O' Where are the MEN????

 The T shirt sales are going great; amongst the ladies! I need to sell to some nice gentlemen now.....
Here's praying that I can get about 10-15 more by Monday so that I can place the order for both the ladies and gentlemen.


An update on our process....we were approved for an extension to be dossier to China until 10/25. I am praying it is there long before that though! We are just waiting on our I800a to come back from the Chinese consulate and then off our dossier (paper baby) goes to CHINA! Yeah!!!

THANK YOU

I am moved beyond words for the support we are recieving for our adoption. I am amazed that I can love a child that I have yet to meet so much. I think about her all of the time and am anticipating the day that I will be able to hold her in my arms and kiss her good night. I realize that it may not be the fairytale I am imagining. She may not even like us at first. And then we will have the medical issues to take care of that my cause more heartache but I know that God will be with us through it all. Chad, Anthony, Jakob and I cannot thank you all for the love, support and prayers!

THANK YOU!

T SHIRTS

http://savingmadison.blogspot.com/p/t-shirts-help-us-bring-madison-home-and.html

YOUTH SIZES AVAILABLE

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Youth Sizes Available

Womens

Medium Unisex $24.95 Large Unisex $24.95 XLarge Unisex $24.95 XXLarge Unisex $26.45 XXXLarge Unisex $27.25

Mens

Medium Unisex $24.95 Large Unisex $24.95 XLarge Unisex $24.95 XXLarge Unisex $26.45 XXXLarge Unisex $27.25

Progress

So our correct I800A is in the hands of AAC (adoption agency) and it is headed to The Secretary of State today!!! I wish we were closer to bringing Madison home but I have to accept God's perfect timing. I am most sad at night when I wonder if she is being tucked in and loved. I worry about her health and will be so relieved when she is home and can be treated here.
It is such a relief to be working on the T shirt fundraising because at least I feel I am doing something to help. Who knows, maybe it will be so successful we can support another child without a forever family! God willing!

Paypal up and running!

If you would like to support us in bringing Madison home please select the T SHIRTS button under Home and choose your size under Mens or Womens. If you are interested in a particular style or color let me know. The manufacturer said there are many available. Them womens ink colors look great on chocolate color and I am getting mine in a V-neck. The mens look great in a heathered army green! These are top quality shirts and cannot wait to share them with everyone!

YES!!! I have the t-shirt designs!!!!



Front of Womens



Back of Womens



Front of Mens

After much prayer I feel  we are being led to do a t shirt fundraiser. I found these shirts on another adoptive Mom's blog and fell in love with them! I was hoping that we wouldn't need to ask for help but this is another lesson God is teaching me; humbling myself and accepting help and at the same time promoting adoption. Now, if I could just figure out how to get my paypal button on here I would be up and running! I have the artwork for the t's and I will post them for a sneak peak. There are many styles and sizes available in the womens and mens print design. It actually feels great to be doing anything to bring Madison home since we are now in a lull in the paperwork (just waiting on on dossier to be sent to China). I truly appreciate any support that we get and can't wait to see people wearing these great shirts showing Madison's country of China and encouraging    adoption.

Back of Mens Shirt

Waiting....

The excitement of last week is turning into frustration. We received our fingerprint approval so that our dossier could get on it's way to China but there was a "typo" and we are now waiting (since Monday) for the corrected form.
On a heart warming note; At Jakob's open house for school we were shown the poster he had made. It is precious but what almost brought tears to my eyes is that our 8 year old son had listed 1 brother and 1 sister on it. My heart could burst with joy that our boys are so accepting and loving of Madison and we have yet to meet our precious girl.

Where to start?

This is my first blog entry ever and I am sure it will be evident. My name is Jill and I am creating this blog to help us bring Madison home. Madison is a precious gift from God living in a orphange in the Long Gang SWI in China. My husband, Chad , myself and our two boys Anthony and Jakob are not so patiently waiting on for this journey to lead us to China and back.