There are some days when all I can do is sit back and wonder how did I ever become so blessed and lucky? My older daughter, now 9, said today how much she can't wait to get Mia. It was honest and from her heart. She can't understand why it is taking so long. If it is so hard for me as an adult to wait, how much harder it must be for my girls who at 9 and 6 can't understand how these processes work. Our documents have gone to the USCIS and we are waiting for the fingerprint appointment and to then be approved by the US government to bring home a child...our Mia. This phase alone can take up to 90 days. The girls are already arguing over who will sit next to her on our flights home. I keep trying to remind them we've got a lot longer to wait before we will be flying home.
As my sweet girls prepare and wonder about their youngest sister each day, I grieve that another day has passed that Mia isn't home. Time is such a funny thing, it's something I wish would slow down right now as the girls get older and yet it's something I wish would pass more quickly so that we can all be together.
How is it even possible that I can be given the gift of another daughter from China? From the same area of China which stole my heart twice before! From the part of China which has come to feel like a second home for me, and has been the first home for 3 precious little girls. From the same area of the country where we go back with Knowing Hope (www.knowinghope.blogspot.com). China hasn't even been open to single parents for adoption again for more than a few months. How is it that this sweet little girl, to be named Mia Aona had still been waiting? And that the waiting child coordinator with the agency which allowed me to be a mother for the first time could help me bring her home? That I could get pre-approval from China within 4 working days. There is only one explanation. I am one person who is enormously blessed and lucky. And for that, I am so incredibly grateful.
