Honey Do List

I haven't been around much, as I have been working like mad, dancing like crazy, crossing things off my never ending list of refile documents and even snuck away for a day and a half to the Keys. Keep your fingers crossed for a May referral, so my entries can get interesting again!

China's One Child Policy....

It's interesting to me that some people have the concept in their heads that China's one child policy simply means that the Chinese prefer boys and "throw their girls away". I get this comment so many times and it makes me shake my head. But I can't blame people. I didn't even get it until I read "Wanting a Daughter, Needing a Son". It's not simply a matter “preferring to have a boy.” It’s so much more complex than that. Without a son, parents won’t have anyone to take care of them when they are too old to work. In China, when daughters marry, they go to the husband’s family where they are then expected to care for the husband’s aging parents. You have to understand the whole culture, in order to make sense of the situation. Parents don’t prefer to abandon their daughters. It breaks their hearts. Often, the mother doesn’t have a choice-- the baby may be taken from her as soon as she is born; the mother feels the pain of labor, hears the baby cry, hears the announcement that the baby is female, and then never sees the child again. Often another family member will clothe the baby, write a loving note with vital information, and take the baby to an orphanage or market place in secret. I also read in "Wanting a Daughter, Needing a Son", that many of the girls who are abandoned or given up have an older biological sister still living with her biological parents. I know in my heart that my daughter was born last fall and was given up many months ago. I also know that somewhere across the world, there’s a woman who grieves every day for having lost her daughter. I feel a strong responsibility to that unknown woman, to provide my daughter with the love and the life she was not permitted to. I will honor that woman and think and pray for her on my daughter's birthdays and on Mother's Day.

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Apparently HotBliggityBlog.com is no longer in business. Nice to get a notification. I had to upload a new background. It's cute, but the middle part I am not crazy about. Anyone know how I can get the whole blog customized?

Woodsie has her baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My buddy Heather met her adorable Norah yesterday. Her referral pics had the same adorable pig tails. She is just too adorable for words. Congrats mama Woodsie!!!!

Magical Powers

Apparently I have them. The CCA^ was five days late in sending the stork so I put out a plea on FB to hurry the heck up. Within ten minutes RQ updated her site to say that some agencies received referrals. Abra Abra Cadabra...I wanna reach out and grab ya! They are up to April 17th. No surprise there. My prediction...up to April 21st in May and then our stork will land in early June. Just 9 weeks. I had a little happy cry today. It's feeling mighty real, and scary, and wonderful!