Welcome to our blog...we hope to be pros at this in time to go to China so we can keep connected on the trip of a lifetime. Please see the end entry if you haven't been thanked for all the support over the last few years. Jenny
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Monday, May 25, 2009

Bad news...

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Well this past Monday we got the dreaded call that we won't be travelling as planned. They won't accept any one from the US until at least mid June. So now the plan is to try and leave June 24th...if we can get a confirmed appt. I called Continental and they are going to wave the $750.00 ticket change fee for me one time. That was such a relief. So we wait and we continue to count down the days until we can bring our girl home!
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Sunday, May 17, 2009

Update...



Well we had about 3 weeks of pure joy and then the swine flu hit. We currently have approval from China to travel, we have our visa's, and we have a consulate appointment but the big thing we don't have is our provincial appointment. This is the appointment we have to have to get Shelby..ugh!! I've never heard of this happening and it doesn't' make sense...it seems like if the head of the adoptions in China has given us the ok then the individual province would allow it. They are planning on re looking at the end of May. So we need big prayers! My agency is still planning on us going as planned (with the hopes that the province will open up) so that means we bought plane tickets this week. We are scheduled to leave on June 3rd...I'm going to stop saying we think we are going June 3rd to WE ARE GOING
JUNE 3rd!!!! There hasn't been any real news on the flu on TV or in the papers so hopefully China will come to their senses. It's crazy to think of the number of people who come to China each month and they think keeping adoptive parents out will make a difference...again ugh. So that's where we are still anxiously waiting. If I can just get there and not get quarantined when we get off the plane do I dare say we will be home free? Who knows...
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Still waiting for Shelby...

Our wait for Shelby began on September 13, 2005. We are now very close to being with our angel. We hope to travel in early 2009. This has been a journey filled with many highs and lows. I want to take this oppportunity to thank everyone who has stood by me and prayed for us. My mom-she has been on this roller coaster from the first informational meeting and we take turns keeping each other grounded, my family-my grandma who helped me have the best nursery ever and my LA gang-for not giving up that they will soon have another niece and cousin, friends-way to many to name but I'm going to try (and if I leave someone out don't fret we will call it a paper pregnancy moment)-Lauri (all the cards), the Wardskis, Jen., Lisa, Sheri, Tiffany, my Hillcrest UMC friends...always patiently letting me cry, vent, and forever guess at what China will do next, and last but not least my work family-I can't even begin to express how they have kept me lifted up...from Sally starting her hair bow collection, Chinese New Year celebrations, Sebrina always keeping up with the rumor queen and marking the days off as we get them, and finally all the cards and pick me ups left quietly on my desk at the most needed times. They always know when the end of the month comes (referral time) I need a shoulder and pep talk and never waiver in staying positive. So thank you all again for what you have done and all that I know you will do until we have "Shelby Marie from Tennessee" (from the famous ? my dad had for her in her quilt scrapbook "Shelby Marie are you really from Tennessee...you look Chinese to me")