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We are Cynthia and Jeff of Texas. Well, I finally decided to tell our story to Sara, aka Fu Jia Rui. She is 9 years old and waiting for us in Fuzhou SWI. We have a daughter, Ruth-8, from the Marshall Islands adopted at 10 days old. Her adoption took a total of 5 months from homestury to bringing her home. Sara's adoption began the beginning of May, 2005!. We were LID 10/28/05 and began our wait. On June 23, 2006 we decided to look at the SN list and found our daughter Sara on the list. We were approved and sent our LOI on 7/7. We are currently waiting for our TA (travel approval) to go to China and bring Sara home. We will be leaving Ruth with her grandparents, but she is fine with this because she is NOT interested in shots (like we are?)

3rd Grade Begins

School began today. Ruth has a wonderful teacher, Mrs Clark. She did a lot of subing for the class last year, so they are familiar with each other. I walked Ruth to the class early since we missed the Meet The Teacher day last week while in Georgia on vacation. When the day was done, she had a GREAT day and was very excited and called Jeff to tell him all about it. I really missed her during the day.

Happy 75th / adoption announcement

Today is the surprise 75th birthday party for my father. We are having it in Friendswood, TX at on of my sister's house. We are fairly good at pulling surprises off. It was fun having all of the family and close friends together.

After all of the festivities, I passed out small pieces of paper rolled up and tied with a ribbon. I told then that we are going to play a game and they had to do what was on the piece of paper. Ruth counted down and they all opened the paper....

On the paper was the announcement that we had adopted a daughter!!!!! You see, since May of last year-14 months ago, we decided NOT to let the family into our decision...for one reason we wanted to do without outside comments and we were not wanting anything negative coming our way in this sometimes very difficult travel.

The family was very excited and happy for us....so a happy ending!