You Can't Expect the Unexpected

Over the past few days, I’ve been thinking about writing a post about the adoption process, specifically as it pertains to traveling to get your child. There are so many […]

A Quiet, But Good, Day

Hallie, trying out her hat for the first time Yesterday was a quiet day for us. Lucy (our guide here in Guiyang) met us at our hotel after breakfast, and […]

This afternoon, we left our hotel in Jinan. While we’re both excited to go get Isabelle, we’re a bit sad at leaving Jinan behind. We have thoroughly enjoyed ourselves this […]

Native Music & Food

This morning, John picked us up at 9:00 to go get Hallie’s passport. Thankfully, it was done and ready for us, and we were finished with our errand before 10:00. […]

Well, today was a big day for Hallie. We took things very easy today, venturing out for a walk by ourselves (we gave John the day off, even though he […]

It's Official!

I’m a little late in posting this, but on Monday morning, our little girl became Hallie Elizabeth Godwin for good! Her adoption is complete, and that happened a day earlier […]

We are finally on our way to China! We dropped our kids off at my parents’ house Thursday evening, and they seem to be settling in very well. My parents […]

I just realized that I have been updating everyone on my travel plans by means of Facebook, but haven’t posted anything here for those of you who are not Facebook […]

Greg and I just celebrated our sixth wedding anniversary. My parents kept the kids for us so that we could have a little weekend getaway before the trip to China. […]

We have some good news about our adoption. We learned today that our Agency received our Letter Seeking Confirmation, or LSC. This is the next big step in the adoption […]