The Sadie Lady

The American Medical Association is urging the American Psychiatric Association to include in its mental illness manual "video game add...

The blog has languished! I've had a few people ask me, "What's going on?" Let me tell you what's going on. Stacey, as ...

When Harper Lee coined the words "Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people'...

If any of you family readers are wondering why I'm writing about where we were on July 20, 1969, please rewind back to my post on May 8,...

Have you ever had something happen where the significance of the events was lost on you till everything was over. We took separate cars to ...

We decided to apply to the "Waiting Child" program with our adoption agency. This means we would be open to adopting a baby who ha...

The first reason we started this blog was to have one place to keep family and friends informed about the adoption. It seemed a better idea ...

Here are some referrals that came in this week: http://www.journeytoannie.typepad.com/ http://babyheaton.blogspot.com/ http://www.thepuckett...

The paperwork is done, the CCAA has us on a list of names that is 25000 long. I imagine we are number 25,000, maybe 24,999 if we're luc...

Word on the street is referrals are on the way for families who were logged in as of November 1, 2005. These families have waited 18 months ...

Sadie will be three years old next month. We adopted her from the humane society when she was 8 weeks old. She is of uncertain parentage. Th...

Here is an update of a Joint Council on International Childrens Services conference that was held this month. The China Center of Adoption A...

I know some of you girls out there that follow this web site are horse lovers. My mother-in-law just sent me an e-mail about this. Check th...

Can you imagine the name of your town being "Mouth of Wilson". Hope there are no "Mouth of Wilson" natives out there rea...

An hour ago the phone rang and now I'm up. It rang several times before it shook me out of the deep sleep and weird dream I was having. ...

Jeff and I are on vacation this week. We spent the day working in the garden. We're building a trellis for some raspberry bushes and p...

I thought this day would never get here. Got the e-mail from CCAI. Our dossier was sent to China yesterday afternoon. We have should find o...

What a whirlwind the last two weeks have been. First and foremost, ALL OUR PAPERWORK IS DONE!!! Our dossier is in Colorado at CCAI being ...

The 171 came back from Washington and Jeff drove it down to the CCAI office in Atlanta!! After having UPs lose our home study/pictures and t...

Well, after many phone calls to find out why it is taking so long for the corrected 171 to reach us, Jeff found out that "the officer...