How Our Journey Began

I wanted to add a post to let you know how this journey started. We adopted our beautiful daughter Natalie from Jiangxi, China in 2005 and had one of the best experiences of our life. After completing an adoption you have to wait 1 year before you start the process again. That was a good time frame for us because we wanted to make sure that was what we wanted to do again. Before the year was up, we decided that was the route we were going again because we didn't want Natalie to be an only child. We put our paperwork in the China chase and we were logged in on 1/31/07. But the wait kept getting longer and longer and we weren't getting any younger so we decided to start looking on the waiting children sites. In July 2008, within weeks of asking for any listing, our Agency sent us a couple of boys to review. One had more SN than what we were ready for and the other one didn't have any. Besides the fact that he also had some similarity features like Natalie we were smitten. This little boy was from Taiwan, an island off the coast of China. Taiwan's process is a little different from the China process, which, to our surprise, was less painful. We submitted our name in August 2008, sent a letter to the mother and some pictures and waited for the mother to choose. On Sept 30, 2008, we got the call. We were chosen to be Chia-En's parents. We were over the moon with excitement. At that time, we were told the process would be 4-6 months. Needless to say, here we are 9 months later and we still don't have our precious son. BUT, we are much closer and we have learned that waiting is not necessarily a bad thing. And hopefully, as you can see from earlier posts, we will get our TA this week.