step back to october 2007

navigating a blog is brand new to this writer, and have had lot's of fun figuring it out. this story starts way back but for now, i think the short version will suffice. we found out back in october that our local adoption agency had a new waiting children's list. adoption had been a discussion for several years, with various barriers that stymied proceeding much furthur than just talk. alex and john were getting older, and we realized if we were to move forward we wanted to do so before alex and john were all "grown up!" we placed a call to the adoption agency and as things seem to do, ironically they had a child, (actually two), that were in the age group we thought would be a nice fit for our family. it was with a great deal of excitement that we looked forward to viewing the files on these two girls. i think the decision was already made as we opened the file of the first little girl, (aka violet), off the october waiting children's list. the description of her personality was as if she was already born into our family......so seven months later, we are now waiting for our LOA from china, and hopefully a journey this summer to start a new chapter of life as dani joins our family.