I am still walking on air from receiving our LOA "early". We frantically finished filling out all the paperwork needed to go with our LOA on Monday night so it would be ready to travel out on Tuesday when the FedEx truck arrived with that very important pc. of paper. I met the FedEx lady at her door, she didn't even get out of the truck. Tom and I dropped our work, signed our LOA, made the appropriate copies and took off to overnight it to the Hague headquarters in TX for our next step to working toward travel. I had made up a box of goodies for Jenni and her friends with a letter and new pictures of us to send out on Monday, telling her we are thinking of her every day, and that we should be in China sometime this summer. So, as we sent off her paperwork to TX, we mailed her package to China, it was such a good day.
Today I am back to work, trying to get caught up on business paperwork that our accountant needs (now!). And all I can think about is the information I read on my adoption support group boards this morning. A new shared list has just arrived and it brings the total of kids waiting on that list to somewhere close to 1700. Just think, 1700 children without moms and dads, 1700 children with no future, no one to tuck them in at night, to clap when they hit a ball for the first time, to exclaim over the fact they won the P.E. jump rope competition yesterday (yay, Taylor!), 1700 children who will never get to go to a special high school event with a beautiful dress and matching shoes and purse (yay, Emilee!). 1700 children who will never get to know that their parents are so proud of them while they wait for their first child (yay, Sara!)
So I sit here, sooo happy that we will be meeting Jennifer this summer, and she will know all about a family's love, she will have a mommy and a daddy, big sisters and a cool brother-in-law that can make sure she knows how to grow up surrounded by fun and security. And right now, there are 1700 children waiting for that opportunity.
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