A picture of the family made it onto the China Daily website. Here’s the link to the picture. Megan is napping in Susan’s lap. The big lump under the pink coat is Emily, who is also napping.
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Ok. Here’s an update. Megan at Hip Hop/Tap dance class on February 10.
I learned this morning that the Lakeview Hotel in Nanchang, Jiangxi, China no longer exists. The hotel was purchased by new ownership in 2007 who closed the hotel for renovations but then decided to demolish the 4 star hotel instead and replace it with a brand new 5 star hotel. We first met Emily in [...]
I am making changes to the website behind the scenes in the hope that the changes will make it easier and quicker to update the website and thus make updates more likely. I am shifting my photo albums to Flickr and my videos to Youtube. There will be links on the website to the content [...]
Los Angeles Times: Adoptive families’ quests to trace Chinese roots often meet dead ends By Martha Groves and Barbara Demick December 28, 2009 More families are traveling to China to unravel the mystery of where their adoptive children came from and who their parents are. For the few who are able to make any headway, [...]
Emily was awarded Citizen of the month at her elementary school.
In this Sunday’s Los Angeles Times (link), there is an article titled “Chinese babies stolen by officials for foreign adoption”. While I suspect the stories in the article represent a small percentage of Chinese international adoption cases, even a small percentage is too many. I hope that the United States and Chinese governments look into [...]
Learn how Julia Norris, the mother of her Chinese adopted son, Christian, helped trace his roots in China from this article from the Baltimore Sun.
An American teenager adopted from China reunites with his birth parents in Beijing. Read the story by clicking on this link to the Los Angeles Times article: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-china-adopt30-2009aug30,0,3703559,full.story
On Monday, National Public Radio’s (NPR’s) All Things Considered had a radio news story on a new rule from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that has some Americans leaving China and Ethiopia without the children they adopted there. Click here to read a NPR article and to listen to the news story. There [...]