We should be used to this...

So it's another month and there is always another email from the adoption agency...never with good news. And again the time has been pushed out. We should be used to this by now but it's never easy. It makes me mad, and sad, and frustrated beyond belief. I can't understand why the time keeps pushing out, and pushing out, and pushing out. It's definitely going to be in 2009, but probably now not until the fall of 2009, at the earliest. We are now pushed out 7-8 months past what they told us it was going to be. We knew this could happen, but you always want to think positively.

Got Avery's crib skirt this week, and the rest of her crib set will be here next week. We'll just have to put it away for a little while longer.

I hope to God that the time frame will shorten at some point.

~Alli

A Red Thread To China...

A red thread to China was cast today

From us to a child so far away.

This thread symbolizes an attachment of hearts

That distance alone can’t keep us apart.


Her mother and I are caught in a chase

That time alone will bring us to face.
This loving young child we want so much to greet
With love in our hearts before we did meet.

This tiny, thin thread may stretch, tangle or fray
But our love for her grows stronger each day.
Through the test of time it won’t break or sever
She’ll be part of us forever and ever.

With oceans between us, the distance is spanned
By a love that is greater than man could have planned.
For God in His mercy loved her and us
And decided our family would be a great plus.

So for now we’ll just love her and pray every day
That God keeps her and loves her for us till we may
Travel to China, that land of great past,
To the side of our daughter, to hold her at last.