One Month

Today marks 4 weeks since we had our "gotcha" day with Evan. It's still hard to believe we actually have him with us. I LOVE going into his room at night and seeing him sleeping there, touching his face and finally knowing he is ours!

I have to take the time today to write about our amazing agency. The ONLY reason we are home with Evan is because of their dedication, commitment and compassion for Evan and our family. And they demonstrate this for all their families. Our agency is Family Outreach International.

Our agency spent hours working to make our adoption a success. Even through blunders (we won't say with who!), our agency tirelessly made phone calls, emails and personal visits to the right people to ensure our paperwork was completed and Evan could be ours. Before we traveled, Bob and Yulin called or emailed us over and over to reassure us and to keep us up to date on our file. While in China, Yulin spent 2 whole days with the phone glued to her ear to move things along for us.

I can't begin to explain the emotional strain we felt the day we didn't receive Evan (and all the other families did) and then the next day we sat in our hotel room all day waiting for a phone call that would tell us whether we could get Evan or not. That day, Yulin called every hour to update us on the progress. We were so relieved to finally get "the call" to pick up our son at 4:46 pm!

Without the support and caring of our agency, I can say for certain we would not be home with our Evan right now. It means the world to us that someone cared enough to tirelessly work on behalf of our son and our family. That is the spirit of adoption - never giving up on any child!

I wish the personnel who work for International Adoptions in PEI could experience even a moment of the joy and emotion of finally having your adopted child given to you. To experience the first look, the first smile, the first touch, to hear the sound of "Mommy"...

I know for certain, if this could be experienced, paperwork would be a joy to complete at the Adoption's office and therefore, no more delays, no more resistance - just a time of happiness and compassion for the children who will finally come "home".

yeah...that's my "What If..."

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This is a group picture taken from this weekend - the adopting families on PEI got together for some camping. It was a great time!!! You can all tell what Evan's thinking, "Oh yeah, I'm surrounded by chicks!". Seriously, what a group of beautiful girls for him to grow up with! Hopefully there will be some more boys in the group as well!