Category Archives: China Trip oh my. this update might be short–but not because we didn’t have a full day…but because momma is tired and needs to rest up for a BIG day tomorrow! sooo….our day today started at 4am. (seriously?) too early for this momma! we had to pack up and rearrange our luggage to be under 40 pounds […]  DON’T WORRY. We did not skin a cat–nor did we eat one. But we DID “climb” the Great Wall today. Kind of. Today was a national holiday in China and every body and their mother was out of work today and spending time with their child. Most moms work in China–while the grandparents care for […]  Oh my glory. It’s 3:30pm and we have ALREADY been to Tiananmen Square, the Forbidden City AND Summer Palace. We WERE going to go to the Great Wall today–but I think we’ll save that for tomorrow along with Silk Alley, the Pearl Market and rickshaw rides in the older parts of Beijing. We also have […] This makes me so unbelievably happy! how cool that your oldest kids are there with you, what an experience for them to have at such a young age! Can’t wait to see you with your little guy in your arms!! So beautiful! Perfect way to start my day! Praying for you and soooo excited! Keep the updates coming 🙂 “Trust Him for your story!”…..ahhhh, I just love that! We have seen God write His PERFECT story for our family in the past week, and truly my heart is overwhelmed by His goodness and sovereignty! Can’t even talk about it without crying! So excited that ya’ll are THERE about to meet your sweet boy! Praise God! I love all these cute pics!!!! I am so much enjoying all that you are sharing, Andrea. Thank you. Oh, Andrea, Chase and I are loving your pics. What an awesome adventure for Laney and Parker!!!! Right decision to bring them!! Take care, be safe, and keep the blogs and pics comming. Love you. LOVE seeing these pictures. And love China so very much. It’s making me want to go back! Praise the Lord for His good plans! Loving getting to read about your experiences and adventures! And I love that you’re experiencing China as the locals do! (That’s totally my style, too! Admittedly I laughed about your breakfast adventure and being up for things too early (and the homeschooling comment, too!) Hope your bodies get on your current time zone quickly 🙂 Sounds like the kids are being great sports with the photos/hair bit. That happens a lot when I’ve been in the Arabian Gulf with friends – only it’s not just photos and touching hair, but it’s often offering food/sweets/random things (even to young babies). Talk about having to really keep your eyes on things! Then again, traveling with my best friend back almost 15 years ago, when her hair was much more red then, we discovered red hair also prompts great fascinating in many places – and they’ll do the same thing to adults as typically only happens with kids! Poor girl had never been overseas before that. I thought she’d never go again. Then she met her husband overseas on that trip – oh God and His crazy sense of humor! 🙂  We made it safely to Beijing!! We have been up for more than 30 hours…so we are about to CRASH! It’s night time here–so we are going down for the count so we are rested up for our big day on the town tomorrow! P and Loo are doing great. Loo got sick on the […] So so excited for you all! Reading your blog is bringing back lots of memories for me. I took my 7yr old daughter with me when we went to get little brother last year from Henan 🙂 Lots of prayers for you all!  CHEERS from the kids…with their green drink from a soda fountain in the Sky lounge in JAPAN! These are the faces you make when you haven’t slept in 20 hours:) Another 4 hour flight–and we’ll be in Beijing! 8am in Atlanta will be 8pm in Beijing…and after an all nighter we can finally sleep!!! I […] I’m curious as to the ingredients in that green drink. Never seen a clear green drink. |
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I am so excited for you!! It is four years ago TODAY (1st June) that we met our daughter Lydia Hope in Yunan when she was 14 months old at the time. It was such a wonderful experience!! Just two weeks ago we returned from Uganda after a three month stay whilst adopting two more children, Mercy and Elijah! I can honestly say that adopting from China was so much easier than Uganda, haha!! AND we had to wait five years for our little China princess!
I look forward to seeing pictures of Zeke!! I have been following ever since you went to ET and we started the process to adopt from Ug the same time you started your journey to China, AND we lost our baby son Jude at 18 weeks pregnant along the way too! Amazing how much you ministered to me as our paths and trials were so similar!!
Praying for you!!
Naomi
It is so much fun reading about your adventures. Looks like your kids are doing so well with the traveling. What a tremendously exciting time for your family. Looking forward to hearing about your first meeting of Zeke and seeing photos of you together! Blessings!
My family and I are so excited for you and we check your blog every day for updates! It is so close! Praying for your first meeting and sending lots of love and prayers to you all! We can’t wait to see the first pictures of Zeke!
Wow! Wow! Wow! From a distance the Great Wall looks like a long snake! Rest well for this next leg of the journey.
I’m so thankful you blog and am so excited to watch the celebration about to happen. The Lord bless you and your family in China these days!
What great adventures you’re having in these days before you get your sweet little one!
(Oh, I forgot to say on the last post that I’m praying you are able to connect again with your informal ‘guide’ you got – fun to see God’s used connections like that in the past and I’m sure He’ll continue to do so!)
Can’t believe how crazy crowded the Great Wall is – WOW! I just love that you’re doing things a mix of the local way and the non-traditional way! Taking the subways as much as you can, but then doing the lift on the way up and the fun ride on the way down 🙂
Glad you got time with your friend and can’t wait to continue to pray for you guys and travel vicariously thanks to your great travelogues on here!