Not much...
Our dossier documents are almost ready. We still have to
wait for our USCIS approval but at least we are being proactive :0)
Of course, I have been shopping…Oh my, I just fell in love
with the cutest little back pack from Etsy! Of course, I gave in and order it. I can just imagine our Little Cupcake carrying her little "treasures" in her back pack (ha!) I
also bought two super cute juicy couture shirts –
can you say s-p-o-i-l-e-d :0)
I seriously need to start
using my new camera; I keep forgetting I have it and keep using my phone camera
ugh...
What else? Oh yes, our home study
social worker recommend for us to see the documentary Somewhere Between, so we
did and it was great! It’s about four teenagers
that were adopted from China now living in the United States discuss how they
deal and sometimes struggle with questions about identity. It gave us time to
not only watch the video but also time to have to heart to heart discussions…
We know someday
our baby girl will have so many questions and we will answer as best as we can.
We do have one advantage, my husband has Asian features and I have dark eyes
and dark hair. So hopefully our baby girl will not feel “different”. Don’t get
me wrong, am not saying we will lie to her and pretend we are her biological
parents, not going to happen! We are sure we will deal with the same issues so
many adoptive families deal with… What am trying to say is that our daughter's
adoption story is hers to share when she is ready to do so we don’t have
to explain to strangers every time we go to the supermarket.
Funny when we
used to tell people we were going to adopt from Russia they would looked at us
weird as if we were insane…A kid with blue eyes and blond hair? Some people are
so insensitive... (there is such thing as Russians with Asian features by
the way!)
I remember having crazy
dreams ... I would take our daughter to school, I don't remember her facial
features but in my dream she had long blond hair and bright blue eyes. As she
kissed me and said good-bye I would hear whispers from classmates (and their Parents)
saying Is that her housekeeper? Is that her nanny? Comments that made me cry in
my dream. ( I knew that was never going to happen since we had requested a
child with Asian features).I know it's silly, I just couldn't believe how other
people's rude comments affected me...
Anyway, what
else? We also watched the documentary China’s lost girls…so sad…
Lisa Ling joins some American
families as they travel to China to meet their new daughters for the first
time. The documentary explain how the ‘‘One child” policy designed to control
China’s population has affected the Country and how the cultural, social and
economic factors influence families to prefer or “keep” boys, and girls are
often aborted, or abandoned. As a result, tens of thousands of girls end up in
orphanages across China. (Currently, more than one quarter of all babies
adopted from abroad by American families come from China and the majorities are
girls). The documentary is both sad to see how so many kids/families are
affected but it was also sweet seeing the featured families meeting their baby
girls... oh we can't wait!!!
