Stac’s Place

Nothing like hitting the ground running!  Annabelle got a good taste of the Sublett family schedule today.  She ate breakfast with Sadie, but opted out when it came to the powdered mini-donuts.  I imagine that she’ll learn to love them in time, but they seemed a little too weird this morning.  She and the kids [...]

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Wowzers, the trip home was a long one.  We started at 5 in Guangzhou, boarded a bus to Hong Kong.  Did you know that everybody has to get out and recheck their luggage TWICE at the China-Hong Kong border?  We didn’t either.  Talk about crazy. But we were all smiles as we got ready to [...]

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It’s Thursday. We flew solo today—no other family to hang out with. It was sort of a test for us, and a good chance for us to see how Annabelle would react without Lauren around.

We passed!

It was a pretty fun day, actually. We did all the normal stuff. Breakfast buffet, a [...]

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Yep, it’s true. I caught Kim swearing today. We were in a crowded room with about 60 other families, all of us adopting children from China. It’s one of our last stops along the way here. We were at the American Consulate in Guangzhou for the official oath taking ceremony, in [...]

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This is a shot from this morning’s adventure at the new park.  Dave and I bagged it, letting the girls (and poor Marcus) go it alone.  It was a pretty cool park, with lots of people playing ping pong, dancing, and some excellent workout machines sneakily camouflaged as playground equipment.  Bravo, Mr Chinese gov’t exercise [...]

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OK, so I think she’s starting to feel like part of the family.  Kim and I have been looking forward to this day for about 5 years; I have no idea how long Annabelle has been dreaming of being part of a family.  This morning Kim took Annabelle and Lauren downstairs to the nail salon.  [...]

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While you were busy sleeping, my Chinese family and I were out on the town.  See what I mean?  Don’t you think Annabelle resembles her mom?  There’s something about those eye…No wonder the boys in the Dominican Republic thought Kim was Tim Ling’s mom–they called her “Chino Madre!”

It’s Sunday, and I felt a little weird [...]

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“Why does our adoption trip take 2 weeks?”

That was one of my initial questions, once we got into the process.

It turns out that each day is another step in the paperwork, meetings, and examinations. Our guides are doing a lot of leg-work each day, running our paper work from Consulate to doctors to offices [...]

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Well, it’s not as though this whole trip isn’t full of firsts, but there were a couple of pretty significant and cool firsts today. There wasn’t a thing on our schedule, so we got to sleep in a little longer today. Our bodies are getting used to the time change now that we’ve [...]

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Annabelle had control of the camera most of the day, so here are some shots she took.
And here are some that we took with her in them!

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