Well, I am finally on the web other than the website my wife and I share for our adoption journey with www.Babyjellybeans.com. I am new to this blogging thing and just thought that I would make an attempt at it. It is just a place for my thoughts. Oh, and do I dare say feelings? Men aren't supposed to have feelings, right? Not!! We do have feelings but as the conventional wisdom or thought processes of others state that we men are supposed to be strong, stoic, and unfeeling. Sorry if I am flying in the face of conventional wisdom, but we have feelings and the funny part is that we do occasionally express them. Er, at least some of them. So yeah, this will be my thoughts and feelings (which is only occasionally...lol). Well enough about my blog reasons.
So, what do I blog about, hmmm...oh yeah. My wife and I are in the process of an international adoption from China. We started this in January 2006, when we started the paperchase to compile our dossier. Which by the way, was sent in March 2007, so that is when our wait started. We will name our little princess Robin Therese. That's the jist of it, for more info visit our page at the website above. Just type Robin for the first name and Margroff for the last name and read more about our journey there. I won't go into anymore details here about that. Anyhow, we are waiting and Lord willing, the wait will either come down or we will not notice the rate at how fast or slow it moves. There are frustrating moments and there are also joyous moments. At any rate we keep faith in the Lord that the perfect little princess will be "matched" to us by a Social Welfare Institute or SWI (as they are called in China) official. We call them orphanages. I write "matched" that is what is done, although it seems inconceivable to me how a caucasian couple's attributes or features can be matched with an Asian child's. As we were informed is the practice of Chinese officials in SWI's, by our social worker Denice, that did our homestudy. The whole process of the paperwork, the wait, receiving the referral (which probably won't happen for a little over a year as of this posting), and then traveling to get our little princess Robin is so unreal. Of course Karen and I cannot wait, but we are always asking those in our small circle of friends and family to keep us in their prayers. If you happen to be reading this, to do the same for us. The prayers that I ask for are not that the wait go by faster because I wouldn't want life to race on by. I ask that your prayers are for patience and that the wait could possible come down some. I know that God has the perfect little girl picked out for us and the wait may be necessary for that little princess to be ready for us. I for one am not the most patient man (just ask Karen...lol) and I really need your prayers. Oh, and thanks for stopping by to read this. I hope to be able to keep this up on a regular basis. So, stop and check to see when I put up another post. Hopefully within the week.
God Bless us all,
Bob :-)
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