Facts and Thoughts

Though our second adoption is just now materializing, her name has been decided on since shortly after Gloria came home from China in 2001. So now it appears that we chose the name Selah Skye near the time she would be born.
We always wanted for Gloria to have a heart sister who could share her adoption story, both having been born in China. It is a huge country with may provinces.  That their respective provinces touch at a certain point makes me smile:) ..... has to be significant too.
We received our referral for Gloria on our 13th anniversary. Our home study update for Selah Yuanyi Skye was completed on the same day, 11 years later.

Chinese symbol for "Love".

                            



Gloria's clay on the wheel, heart shaped.The Chinese symbol for love has a heart in
                              in the middle, inside of "accept", a graceful
                              emotion. It symbolizes loving with all your heart:)
                                                                                  

Selah Yuanyi Skye's Adoption Story

We are the Lees; Darren, Angella and Gloria Anne.

We were blessed with Gloria, one amazing daughter, in 2001.
In 2006 the adoption of a second daughter began.  Our home study 
was completed in May of 2007.  And since then, it has been 
One. Long. Wait. 
Then, in April of this year, we got a call from our 
adoption agency about a 9 year old little girl in the Anhui Province of China.  She was described as "lovely and active".
After a few days, we wrote a letter of seeking confirmation so that
the process of bringing her home to us could begin. 
We were cleared for travel in June. Finances posed a problem though.
We had 3 months to write to adoption foundations for grants, 
many of which only review applications every other month. 
We ended up requesting an extension for our travel.
We continue to work on securing what is left to complete the process, but thanks 
to a loan we received, we are on track to purchase flights as soon as a new Consolate date is set. From all indications, we will depart for Beijing on October 31st.
Our new daughter's Chinese name is Chu Yuanyi. Yuanyi stands for " One of
many accomplishments. 
Her favorite classes in her primary school are gym time and art. I just started teaching art at a darling little Independent K-8 school. So her mom will also be her art teacher. Neato. 
It is a situation where I can see each daughter outside either the door or window of 
my classroom. 
Many blessings have been sprouting up lately to help us "get her out of there" as my
late father said a couple of months ago.

Isn't she adorable?!