Good morning! It is raining and cold here, but I like the rain, so I feel happy. Okay, okay...I know you didn't come here to talk about the weather! So, here is an update on LongLong's adoption!
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Yep....waiting. That is the update. THIRTEEN DAYS since we sent in our paperwork for PA (that stands for Pre Approval, in case you forgot).
In the meantime, however, I have not been idle! We have started the paperwork for our homestudy. The homestudy is a long time, money, energy (soul??) consuming step in adoption. But I plan to meet it head-on and at a RUN! Let's get it done and over with. Perseverance is the name of the game in homestudy. (Actually, we STARTED the homestudy long before now, with things like Letters of Reference being handed out, and all of the addresses gathered for where Brik and I have lived since the age of 18. That was a challenge, since during that time he lived in South America and I lived in China...several times!)
We also had a BIG breakthrough with coming up with some name ideas for LongLong's English name! Yahoo! We plan to call her LongLong, and we wanted to just keep her Chinese name as her name! But we decided that having an English name to fall back on would be wise, as her Chinese name really is difficult to pronounce. Also, we want her to be able to choose to go by an English name if she wishes. The naming her part has been a bit of a struggle. But I think we came up with two good candidates for names. YAY! (I am not going to post them here, but I am happy to share privately if anyone is dying to know :D)
Also this week, we received answers to four of our questions, including when her last round of chemotherapy was and the outcome from it. It sounds like, for now, she is doing well in that area. They believe she is now in remission!! That news was music to this Mama's ears, let me tell you!! Because of the kind of cancer she had, she has a 50% chance of developing a different kind of cancer at any time. So, she will need to be checked every couple of months for the rest of her life. However, after the age of 5 she is less likely to contract the same kind of cancer, so that is good news! One more year and she will be less likely to develop this kind of cancer again! Granted, she has a fifty-fifty chance of contracting a different kind, but if there is one kind of cancer we can put on the back burner of worrying about, that is good news in my opinion!
Our girl is a FIGHTER. She is so brave and strong and I am so proud of her strong spirit! I can't wait to bring this little warrior home!!
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