Happy Thanksgiving, folks!

This was my Thanksgiving dinner last year, when we visited the orphanage, which I’ll post about tomorrow (Thanksgiving was the 27th last year!)  Not quite. . . traditional. 🙂  It was very good though!

Last year today Mom, Dad, and Lucy visited the city wall.  I decided to post the pictures, even though I wasn’t there because I wasn’t feeling good that day.

I love the pictures they got!

If you had told me before we left that I would end up spending the afternoon alone in a Chinese hotel, I think I would have seriously re-considered going.  But once it came down to it, I felt totally fine.  It felt quite safe!  It was actually kind-of nice to be alone for a bit! #Introvert

Have a blessed Thanksgiving today!  I’m thankful for adoption today, and China, and my little sister’s first Thanksgiving at home!

November 25, 2014 ~

There were lots of things, about China in general, that I wanted to post. And maybe I will sometime. I was going to now. But something happened. Lucy happened. She is everything now. Lucy is the world.

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The day it all became official!

Happy Adoption Day, sweet girl!

The day I met my little sister!  I posted this that afternoon, before we went to meet her that evening (pictures added):

We’ve been in China for a little over twenty-four hours now, and it’s been great!  The jet-lag was pretty bad on the plane.  I was expecting it, but not that bad, and (for some reason) not until we got home; but I perked up when we got to Xi’an… and could go to bed.  I’m never sleepy when I’m supposed to be–like, never!

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#LoveAtFirstSight

We made it to China!

I love this picture because it pretty much sums up how I felt at that point!  The actual fourteen hours weren’t so bad, but it’s not easy to sleep on a plane, and I was exhausted by the end.  Okay, it’s not easy for me to sleep on planes.  But I can’t sleep in cars or anything either!

Just one more plane ride to Lucy’s city. . .

And my first view of China outside an airport!  So foggy–so beautiful–so exciting!

The day our adventure began!

Here we come, China!

My blog, one year ago:

Are we going to China tomorrow?

I don’t think so.  It isn’t possible, is it?

Come on, people, give me some grace: I haven’t convinced myself yet that we are going to CHINA!

During our first adoption, I never would have guessed that we would ever do an international adoption.  We actually wanted to do a second domestic adoption… but that door was closed–God closed it.  Because he knew Lucy was out there for us.

He knew she needed us… and we needed her.

We weren’t thinking China either, it was just an open door.  It was just the option that seemed like it was the best fit for our family.

Lucy was born in 2006… the year we went to Florida as a family (at the time, which was without M and Lucy )

I wonder what my little five-year-old self was doing that day when, on the other side of the world, things were happening that would change my life–forever.

Forever and ever!  More than I ever dreamed when I wrote that!

Throwback Thursday came just in time for this!  Tomorrow I’m going to start a series of pictures and re-posts to recap our China trip, this time last year.  I’m going to post every day we were in China, if I can manage it!

Happy Thursday!