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China Adoption Stories: Inspirational Stories
of Adoption.
Summary: China Adoption Stories offers a collection of personal
adoption experiences. These China Adoption Stories will warm your
heart and inspire you. One recurring and moving moment in many
of these China adoption stories is the first time new parents
meet and hold their new child. There are very few times more life
changing than that first emotional moment.
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China Adoption Stories
"Adoption Leads to Another
-- Then More" : It took thousands of dollars, reams of paperwork
and every frequent-flier mile they could muster for Jeff and Lisa Kircik
to adopt their two Chinese-born children. (more...)
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" International adoption
is their "Plan A": "My closest relationships in life
are with people I am not biologically related to," says Deb Sumiec.(more...)
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" Families Face
Cultural Questions With Asian Adoptees":
As the Year of the Dog bounds swiftly past the Year of the Rooster,
Courtney Kalina is getting her daughter, Eva Hong-Guang Kalina, ready
for her first Chinese New Year party in America. (more...)
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"Happy New Year!"
It’s time again for Chinese New Year. Also know as the Lunar New
Year, Chinese New Year is one of the most celebrated holidays in China.
The fifteen day festival starts on the day of the second new moon after
the winter solstice. (more...)
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"Coming Home":
Angelina Jolie, Julie Andrews and Mia Farrow made headlines by adopting
children internationally, but celebrities are not the only people who
adopt overseas. Several families in Johnson County have adopted children
abroad through Holt International. (more...)
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"A Letter to My Daughter's
Birthmother": First let me say how sorry I am that you had to
go through the unimaginable pain of being separated from your daughter.
Although I’ll never know the circumstances surrounding you placing
her in an orphanage, it must have nearly crushed you. You are incredibly
brave. (more...)
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" Three Girls from China":
Abby snuggled up against me as the pictures appeared on the computer monitor.
“There’s Sally,” Abby said. “I wonder if she remembers
us?” (more...)
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" Willow Ready
for First Christmas in America": Eileen Protin, of Charleroi,
said the whole family dotes over the toddler. There will be extra gifts
under the Protin family Christmas tree in Charleroi as a new member of
the clan will celebrate her first Christmas in America.(more...)
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"Genealogy Today":
My daughter and her husband have mailed their adoption application file
to China. We'll have a new baby in the family in a few months. Since Jen
and Rob said they were open to adopting siblings, we may have more than
one. (more...)
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"Bringing Hope to
Chinese Orphans": Steve Bolt, his wife Cathy, and their five
children welcomed Mary, a Chinese orphan, into their home three years
ago. (more...)
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"What You Didn’t
Know About Adoption": Maybe you aren’t surprised that a
grump like me is irritated that every day or week or month is named after
some stupid special interest. But November is Adoption Awareness Month,
and that shuts me up because this is my special interest (more...)
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"China Adoption Travel
Itinerary": A sample itinerary for a family
traveling to China.
China Adoption Stories
"Today
I kissed an Angel": "Today I kissed an angel. This angel
child of mine. Although not by my creation, My child by God's design."
(more...)
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"Mother's
Gifts": After enduring two unsuccessful invitro cycles, we came
to realize adoption was the BEST choice to form our family. My daughter
was born in China. Going to China to receive our daughter was the most
amazing thing I've experienced in my life. Finally, my long awaited desire
to parent came to fruition. Our daughter was brought home in January 1999
at 11 months. (more...)
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"China Timeline":
So everyone always asks how long it takes to adopt. Of course it varies
on so many factors that are out of your control but here's our timeline
so far...to be updated when warranted, of course... (more...)
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"We met our
daughter on the Internet": Funny place for us to meet our child,
right? WRONG! There are literally thousands of "waiting children"
in the world. Our little girl lived in an orphanage in Xi'An,Shaanxi Province,
China. (more...)
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"Why
I Chose China" by China Sprout editor Debi Strong: Ever since
my husband and I brought our daughter home from China last November, a
week rarely goes by when someone doesn’t ask, “Why did you
adopt from China?” (more...)
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"Shopping for baby
Furniture": It's almost time to start shopping for baby furniture
for our daughter's bedroom. With July (hopefully) and the referral of
our daughter from China just around the corner it's time to start heading
to the store to buy baby clothes, a crib, stroller and furniture for the
nursery - not to mention the first of what I know will be an endless supply
of diapers. (more...)
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" The Gladney
Center Family Adopts Triplets From China": Adoption of Chinese
Triplets by Gladney Family.
China Adoption Stories
"Today
was one of the longest days of our lives!": We left Charlottetown
around 11:00 am and arrived in Vancouver at 5:00 pm (which would be 9:00
pm in Ch’town!) It has been a long day but Chris and I are so glad
to finally be here in the hotel! The plane rides were long and boring.
(more...)
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"Why China?":
When people find out that we are adopting from China, one of the first
things we are asked is "Why China?". Although often asked by
well meaning people, the hidden question behind the question, is "Why
not in the U.S.A.?". (more...)
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"Our Journey
to Get Jasmine": We left for China on Sunday evening, May 11,
2003 which was Mother's Day!!! We had a very long flight with quite a
few connections. We flew from Cincinnati to Los Angeles to Taipei to Hong
Kong to Guangzhou to Changsha. (more...)
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"Sabrina
Rose": We are Brian and Jenna and we live in lovely Pennsylvania.
Brian is 37 years old, and Jenna is 32. We have three beautiful children,
Kyra - age 7, Joshua - age 6, and Sabrina - age 18 months. (more...)
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"Can I have
a potsticker for dinner, daddy?", The Parkins Family: Our story
began just over 20 years ago, when my husband Bob and I married. He
asked me to marry him after taking me on the most romantic engagement
date. A limo to Paine field, an airplane trip to Orcas Island in the
San Juan Islands and then a boat cruise to Rosario Resort where we became
engaged. (more...)
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" The Greshams":
Our story is a little unique. Pat and I already have four biological
children. We had talked about adoption from time to time, but since
we were able to have biological children we never really considered
it seriously. (more...)
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"The
Best Christmas Ever?": I don’t know what Santa brought
you for Christmas, but I can promise you that our gift was the best!!
hat gift was our precious daughter, Maya, who we met and adopted in
China over the Christmas holidays. (more...)
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" The Teague
Family Adoption": This is a journal of our journey to China
to adopt a baby girl. We are so excited, and we hope that you will enjoy
following us on our journey. (more...)
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"Maya's Story
A long time ago, in a land far, far away (or so it seems)":
To be fair, our adoption story started many years before we even
submitted the initial paperwork. My wife (Sandy) and I married immediately
after graduating from college, and proceeded through 15 years of wonderful
bliss. During this time, we would occasionally discuss having children,
but could never develop a 'quorum' between the two of us. (more...)
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"The Koper's
Story": Today was a nice day that started out not so nice.
We got up early (on time) and had real difficulty getting Katie to eat
anything. We left the hotel around 9 am for a city tour of Guangzhou
given and planed by our CCAI guide, Maggie... and we hit a few new milestones
today along the way!(more...)
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"Baby Rumpus Adventure:
The Paul and Jeanne Story"- What is babyrumpus.com?
We created this site for all of our friends, family and anyone who is
interested in the international adoption process. (more...)
Enjoy these China Adoption Stories.
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