Holiday Greetings 2012

Merry Christmas and Blessed 2013 from our family to yours!

As for 2012, it has certainly kept us busy...with paperwork!

We still miss our precious Caleb each and every day, that will never change...

 We are all eager to fill a small hole of our home and hearts...

2013 will prove to be a wild emotional ride.

We have signed, dated, notarized, copied, stapled, mailed, certified, verified and sent 

or received more papers then we can count!

Why? Because before Caleb, we would never have considered 

ourselves capable of adopting or caring for a "special needs" child. 

There is a little boy overseas that was put up for adoption by a loving family of 3,

because they know they cannot care for a Down Syndrome child in their country.

We sent in a family profile to say that we were willing to adopt this precious boy

and they said "YES".  With this response, we began the tedious task of adopting

this little guy.  We have done all of our part required for this side of the world.

We now wait through Taiwan's lengthy court process...after 3 court hearings, he will

officially be ours.  We will then travel to bring him HOME!

We are currently waiting to hear word of court hearing #2 to take place...

we have NO idea when this will occur...

but in the meantime our little guy has gone from living with his birth family for 16 months

to now living in a foster home.  That major change just occurred last week!  We cannot

imagine what he is going through or feeling at this time.  Our hearts break for him

and we cannot wait to finally get all this "process" behind us and be able put our arms

around him and tell him that this is IT - we are taking you HOME, your forever home!  You have a mom and dad who love you and a big brother and sister who cannot

wait to have you home as well.  Clearly his birth parents have made a very difficult decision.

We know their pain...whether you have had to give up your son to heaven or to the U.S. 

in order to have a better life...the pain is deep and we hope to do them proud

by raising their birth son in a loving home.