Susanna's Journey

Susanna's Journey
Well, its been a wild couple of days. We had heard rumors last week that referrals were coming but didn't know when. Our agency sent an e-mail out last Friday saying that CCAA was working on late July referrals and August referrals, up to the log-in date of August 20, which was our log-in date. On Monday morning, I woke up to reports of referrals being delivered in Norway and Ireland. I watched online as people from the East Coast of the US started reporting that their agencies were open and the calls were beginning. I watched as people who we had waited with through the long months reported that their agencies had called and they didn't make the cut-off date and there would be more waiting for them. I watched as every few minutes a new referral was posted, announcing the wait had ended for them and they finally had seen their daughter's face. Finally at 2:22 pm, our China coordinator, Sherry called with the good news. We have a daughter! Her name is Yang Mei Lan and she is in Yang Jiang, Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China. She was born March 28, 2004 and is 10 months old. About 5 minutes later, we received our first pictures by e-mail and we were in love. Since that moment, we've been sharing the news with family and friends...... and staring at her picture......... waiting for her referral packet to come by UPS (which should be here today)......and staring at her picture. It has been a wonderful, wonderful time and all the hours, days and months of waiting suddenly don't seem all that long. The waiting isn't done, now we wait for them to tell us when we can come get her. But at least we now have a picture to stare at. :-)