Selecting an Agency

After scouring the internet and reading all I can find about adopting from China, we have selected the CCAI agency.

I had made a short list of possibilities and then I remembered that an aquaintance had adopted daughters from China. I emailed her just to get her references and see what she thought. She used CCAI, which was at the top of my short list and had a wonderful experience. Then I remembered that she had said they were going through the process again so I emailed her back just to see if I remembered correctly. Later, I recieved an email saying that yes they were and they receieved their referral just an hour before! They will be leaving for China to pick up their daughter Ali in February.

December 12th 2004

Today we decided to add to our family. We are going to adopt a little girl from China! I am so excited!

This is something we have talked about for about a year. This time last year I was really getting serious about pursuing adoption. Lee was more hesitant, but not against it really. Then we kind of put it on the back burner. Over the last few months, I felt comfy in our family and began to think perhaps adoption wasn't really right for us. This wasn't something I shared with Lee, but just a feeling I was settling with. Of course at the same time, Lee was feeling more and more like our family wasn't quite complete. He never came right out and said hey let's do this, but I could tell by the way he was talking that he as really leaning this way.

Now we are going to move forward.