Story: If you would have told me a year ago as we were preparing for travel for Hope that we would be doing the same thing again a year later I would have told you that you were crazy. But God has a way with things and boy was he at work with this adoption.

Two months after we returned home from China with Hope I decided to check into the idea of reusing our dossier. I knew our agency had certain rules about this and I wanted to get more information on it. So after a simple email I got my questions answered. This biggest problem we were facing was that we couldn’t adopt out of birth order and the child has to be a special focus child. That means she needed to be younger than Hope who was already pretty young and we would have to find her on our agencies photolisting. So that very day I thought I would just check, you know so innocently just look, like I had so many times before. I clicked the 0-4 tab and there she was, staring back at me. I read the quick description of her and her age. She was young, exactly six months younger than Hope! So I took a screen shot and texted it to Steve. I was shocked at his response, she’s cute he says, but why are you sending me this.

So there it all began. I sent an inquiry to our agency for her file and then called. I was told then that many other families were reviewing her file. We also didn’t get the response we wanted from our social worker in fact I think she was in shock herself. So after completing the questions she wanted answered we finally gained access to her file. She was in a foster family, from Hope’s same SWI. She had a form of dwarfism and she was oh so adorable. We were in LOVE. But we knew it was still a long shot. So we sent our response back and waited to hear. That Friday we were told that we were now the only family interested and we had the three day holiday weekend to decide.