Ok, Guilty... Just a little behind on the updates! Things have been a little crazy around here for us. We have been tied up with spring calvings, and getting the farm ready for spring/summer. Thank you to everyone who has been checking in to see our progress, and we will be trying to keep things more updated.
So, what is new on the new front? We are finished our homestudy, and are now in the provincial approval stage. Our Adoption practioner sent everything our homestudy off to Family Outreach on the 15th of April, and FOI had it sent off to the Ontario Government on the 19th of April. It has been there for 5 1/2 weeks. One month down, 3 more to go? On May 2nd, we sent the remainder of our information necessary off to FOI for our dossier to China, to give them a leg up to get a lot of the documents translated into Chinese. In these documents were our passport pictures, lifestyle pictures, marriage certificate, birth certificates and our letter of request to adopt. This was what we sent:
To: General Director, China Center of Adoption Affairs, Beijing PRC
May 1, 2006
It is our most heartfelt desire to adopt a healthy infant child under the age of eighteen (18) months age from within your country. While we have been preparing for a daughter, it does not matter to us the sex of the child as either a boy or a girl would be most welcomed into the heart of our family. We are ready to expand our family by adopting a child. We currently have no children. In the past, we have experienced infertility. During this difficult time, we found ourselves researching adoption from China as it has been in our hearts for several years now. After discussing infertility treatments, we have come to realize that adoption is the perfect fit for our family. Our hearts lead us to your country as we look to fulfill and complete our family. We have so much respect for the Chinese people, their many great contributions to civilization and long impressive history. In addition, China's international adoption program has an excellent reputation for being fair, honest and efficient.
We were both born in Ontario, Canada and are Canadian citizens. Dan was born in the Northern area of the province in a town called Thunder Bay on February 7, 1971. Kelly was born in the Southern area of the province in Hamilton, Ontario on March 17, 1975. Dan is a Veterinarian, and works with both farm animals and companion animals and Kelly currently runs his veterinary clinic, which operates out of our home. Our hobbies and interests include farming, spending time with friends and family, playing basketball, scrapbooking, photography, computers and watching movies together. Our extended family is excited about having a new addition and looks forward to their various roles in our future child’s life. Our free time as a family is spent improving our family farm and looking after our animals and enjoying the outdoors on our rural acreage. We promise not to abandon or abuse our adopted child and also promise to treat our adopted child the same as we would our biological child. We further promise to raise the adopted child so that she / he can grow up in a healthy manner. We both feel education is very important and will help him / her to enjoy learning and strive to be the best he / she can be. We will encourage our adopted child the exact same way we would our biological children, to explore different activities to find what he / she has a passion for. We will have regular medical exams to make sure that he / she grows up healthy and happy.We humbly thank the China Center of Adoption Affairs for considering our request to adopt a healthy infant child, less than eighteen (18) months of age. It is an honor to be considered and we thank you for helping realize our dreams of parenthood.
Warmest Regards,
We found it difficult to find the words to come up with to ask for a child from the Chinese government, and hope it is adequate. We took some pointers from a couple who has already adopted from China, as well as from FOI. Now, we just have to relax and wait for this part of the process to go through. We have had a lot of comments from other adoptive families who found this part of the process a difficult wait, but the last few weeks have flown by, and we are of the opinion that we have a lot to do before Peanut gets here, so being patient is a little easier.
Peanut now has three new cousins to look forward to. Twins Kathryn and Nicholas and Laela, who had to have surgery at 4 weeks old, but is now doing great at 7 weeks. We are very excited and happy to be an aunt and uncle again.
Thank you to those who are working on our wishes quilt. We have recieved one square already --thanks Bill, Shari and Kelli! We really appreciate the effort and the research you did! :)
So, what is new on the new front? We are finished our homestudy, and are now in the provincial approval stage. Our Adoption practioner sent everything our homestudy off to Family Outreach on the 15th of April, and FOI had it sent off to the Ontario Government on the 19th of April. It has been there for 5 1/2 weeks. One month down, 3 more to go? On May 2nd, we sent the remainder of our information necessary off to FOI for our dossier to China, to give them a leg up to get a lot of the documents translated into Chinese. In these documents were our passport pictures, lifestyle pictures, marriage certificate, birth certificates and our letter of request to adopt. This was what we sent:
To: General Director, China Center of Adoption Affairs, Beijing PRC
May 1, 2006
It is our most heartfelt desire to adopt a healthy infant child under the age of eighteen (18) months age from within your country. While we have been preparing for a daughter, it does not matter to us the sex of the child as either a boy or a girl would be most welcomed into the heart of our family. We are ready to expand our family by adopting a child. We currently have no children. In the past, we have experienced infertility. During this difficult time, we found ourselves researching adoption from China as it has been in our hearts for several years now. After discussing infertility treatments, we have come to realize that adoption is the perfect fit for our family. Our hearts lead us to your country as we look to fulfill and complete our family. We have so much respect for the Chinese people, their many great contributions to civilization and long impressive history. In addition, China's international adoption program has an excellent reputation for being fair, honest and efficient.
We were both born in Ontario, Canada and are Canadian citizens. Dan was born in the Northern area of the province in a town called Thunder Bay on February 7, 1971. Kelly was born in the Southern area of the province in Hamilton, Ontario on March 17, 1975. Dan is a Veterinarian, and works with both farm animals and companion animals and Kelly currently runs his veterinary clinic, which operates out of our home. Our hobbies and interests include farming, spending time with friends and family, playing basketball, scrapbooking, photography, computers and watching movies together. Our extended family is excited about having a new addition and looks forward to their various roles in our future child’s life. Our free time as a family is spent improving our family farm and looking after our animals and enjoying the outdoors on our rural acreage. We promise not to abandon or abuse our adopted child and also promise to treat our adopted child the same as we would our biological child. We further promise to raise the adopted child so that she / he can grow up in a healthy manner. We both feel education is very important and will help him / her to enjoy learning and strive to be the best he / she can be. We will encourage our adopted child the exact same way we would our biological children, to explore different activities to find what he / she has a passion for. We will have regular medical exams to make sure that he / she grows up healthy and happy.We humbly thank the China Center of Adoption Affairs for considering our request to adopt a healthy infant child, less than eighteen (18) months of age. It is an honor to be considered and we thank you for helping realize our dreams of parenthood.
Warmest Regards,
We found it difficult to find the words to come up with to ask for a child from the Chinese government, and hope it is adequate. We took some pointers from a couple who has already adopted from China, as well as from FOI. Now, we just have to relax and wait for this part of the process to go through. We have had a lot of comments from other adoptive families who found this part of the process a difficult wait, but the last few weeks have flown by, and we are of the opinion that we have a lot to do before Peanut gets here, so being patient is a little easier.
Peanut now has three new cousins to look forward to. Twins Kathryn and Nicholas and Laela, who had to have surgery at 4 weeks old, but is now doing great at 7 weeks. We are very excited and happy to be an aunt and uncle again.
Thank you to those who are working on our wishes quilt. We have recieved one square already --thanks Bill, Shari and Kelli! We really appreciate the effort and the research you did! :)
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