I was busy painting in Nicholas room when Kim phoned from New Hope. They had confirmed with the CCAA that our referral was on it's way. But they had not yet received it! She assured me that they would call as soon as they had it.
Finally, at 2:18PM THE CALL came!! Ning Mei He was born on 05/17/2002, a day after our anniversary! She is in the Taishan Social Welfare Institute in the Guangdong province. We will be at the White Swan the whole time. She is said to be healthy and her pictures confirm she is well fed. Janea was home for lunch when the call came. She snapped a photo of me taking the info on the phone. They were still busy translating so I gave them Mark's work fax number so they could send us everything to quickly look over. We finally received the translated papers about 7:15PM. We quickly read through them, signed the acceptance letter and faxed it back to them. Now we wait to see if we will get to travel with our group.
I made our referral announcements to our egroups. I would have crawled up on our roof and shouted it out if I wasn't so scared of heights!
Tonight I sat down and reflected on all the red threads. When we first sent our dossier off, for some reason I felt our daughter would have Mei in her name. Also I wrote back in April that I hoped her birthday was in May or June. Our facilitators name is Lin Ning Shen. We decided to use Lin in the name and then our daughters' Chinese name has Ning in it and part of KaeLynn Feng He's name. It was in the stars that we would be pulled to this child. RaeAnne turned 9 months old two days after being placed in our arms. ZoraLin will have turned 9 months just days before being placed in our arms. Daddy scoffs at all these "coincidences" but I believe!!
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