No CA today ! Hoping for Monday !

Well, it was a long shot for it to come th next day !

Let's hope that it comes Monday so I can finally get the airline tickets ! I have a wonderful agent, David in NY that my friend, Jennifer used for her adoption, he has me the best rates over anyone ! Thank you Jennifer !

Tonight we all went to eat at our favorite chinese restaurant in Jacksonville to celebrate the TA. With luck we got to see our friend, Sue from Unique Furniture there with her daughter. They let me use their hall for FREE for my spaghetti dinner a while back !

My wonderful friends on LCC ~ Loving China's Children, it's a yahoo group are doing a FAMILY ALERT for us to bring Rachael home !

It is wonderful to see the love and donations of people you have only met online donate and give to you knowing the goal is to bring an orphan home to her family.

As of today, the donations for the Alert have been : $199 to ChipIn, the total is larger cause it was donated weeks before the Family Alert, and best of my knowledge the donations to Kingdom Kids was $50.

Kingdom Kids is an awesome business, it is a way for you to donate and it is tax dedeuctible, but with the crunch on for times, it will cut it close if donations come that way. God will provide. If you do use KK call them with the donation, the online donation site is down.

I want to thank each and everyone of you personally for all your love, and donations and kind words in helping bring my princess home to me !

It is so hard to believe I am only 17 days away from her being in my arms ! I wonder what she is doing now, and worry too. Sometimes the children are removed from foster fmailies before an adoption and taken back to the orphanage. I know she will grieve and pray she is comforted when she does. She has been with the same foster family for a year and a half and she sleeps with the grandparents. She is attached to them, this is good. It means one day she will be attached to me. For I am so attached to her already !

Rachael, baby ~ sleep tight tonight, know that we love you ! And can't wait for you to come home baby girl ! Wo ai ni !

Charlotte

TA ! TA ! TA ! TA ! TA !

TA ! TA ! TA ! TA ! TA !



GOT THE CALL TODAY !

GOT TA- Travel Approval for Rachael, it means I'm going to China !

Still looks like I will be leaving around November 2nd !

15 days til travel !!!!! 18 days til gotcha !!!!!

Please continue to pray for the funds needed !

Charlotte

RACHAEL UPDATE !

Exciting news is in the air !

OH MY GOODNESS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Spoke with my agency today, they needed a date from a form of mine, they are working on getting the Consulate Appointment form ready to send for when the TA gets here anyday now. When asked when did she think I was going to get a Consulate appointment or when would I travel I was told I would travel around ......................

November 2nd, 2007 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THAT'S IN 18 DAYS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

With a gotcha day in exactly 21 DAYS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hold on Rachael, Mommy is coming soon !

Please continue to pray for the funds, I know the Lord always provides !

Charlotte, almost a mommy to 4, and a grandma to the incredible Baby Shrimp ( coming Feb. 2008 )

Update on Rachael !

What a nice little gift to get today !

Measurements of my girl :

Height: 88 cm
Weight: 13 kg
Head: 46.5 cm
Chest: 48 cm
Feet: 15 cm
Teeth: 16


She weighs 1/2 lb. more than Raeghan ! Rachael will be 3 in December and Raeghan will be 4 in January !

Charlotte

Email from my friend in Dian Jiang !

Hi ya'll,

My friend went to China to get her daughter who is from the same orphanage as Rachael and she asked them about her when they visited the orphanage, they actually called to her foster parents house to have them bring Rachael to the orphanage to give her presents from me and to take some pictures for me but they were out of town seeing relatives !

Snot boogers !!!!! I lost it this am and called my mother crying.

The good thing is ......... they know that I am coming in NOVEMBER TO BRING MY GIRL HOME !

All along I have been very brave and strong, and ever since LOA I have been bonkers. I am tired of waiting and I want her NOW ! The TA needs to come too, lol.

Please continue to pray for the needed funds, I still need some help !

Please any kind of donation or loan would be so greatfully accepted !

Charlotte

Waiting for TA now !

Here's a beautiful hair bow I got Rachael a while back ! Can't wait to place it in her pretty blonde hair ! Did I say blonde ? And she's chinese ? YES ! Rachael is one of the few special princesses from China to have blonde hair and blue eyes, she is albino !

PLEASE HELP BRING HER HOME ! ANY DONATION IS SO GREATLY APPRECIATED !




Here's a picture of a desk in my room we have used to pile everything we have boughten for Rachael ! As you can see, she is off to a good start: clothes, shoes, undies, socks, tights, hair bows, toys, etc. She is going to love it all !




Here's my FAVORITE traveling to China backpack ! It only goes with me to China, this will be it's 3rd trip ! It is what I use to carry all my documents to China in and as a baby bag on the stroller. My good friend, Kim gave it to me before I got Raeghan and I used it for Riley too and now Rachael ! It is a little worn, but it is quite faithful and loved !




Look what fun Rachael is going to have with Riley and Raeghan and poor little Mei Mei when she gets home ? LOL


I want to THANK EVERYONE for their love, kindness, prayers and donations !
A special thank you to my friend, Ohilda for doing such a nice blog entry to help me Bring Rachael Home ! Under my favorite blogs you can see it, it is called Anna Grace in China ! She just got home with Anna Grace a few months back and her son, Kai too is from China. Riley and Kai were from the same agency.


My agency says TA should be here in 2-3 weeks, then we can plan to trip ! I am thinking I will leave around November 9th or 16th ! That's only 5-6 weeks away !!!

Charlotte

LOA ! LOA ! LOA ! LOA !

Our LOA ~ Letter of Acceptance to adopt Rachael has come ! She is my daughter forever and always ! From the minute I saw her I knew she was meant to join our family !



For those of you stat lovers here they are :

DTC/LID for nsn : March 2007
Referral of Rachael : April 30th, 2007
LOI: May 22nd, 2007
Found out dossier moved from nsn to sn : July 10th, 2007
LOA: October 1st, 2007 !
TA: hoping for end of Oct/beg. of November 2007 !
CA: hoping for end of November, hoping to leave November 16th, with a GOTCHA DAY OF November 19th, 2007 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!




Official Letter of Acceptance to adopt my beautiful little girl Rachael !




Riley and Raeghan watching me sign : Yes, I agree to adopt her !!!!





Signed and ready to go to China !




Me and three of my four children !





We're so silly ! We need our silly sister to come home too !

COME HOME RACHAEL !

Charlotte
Rebekka, Raeghan, Riley and baby Shrimp too !