I don’t really mean for the title to sound as depressing as it sounds, it’s actually a good end.
Finally.
We JUST got back from traveling to Memphis to interview with Homeland Security so they could review all of our documents and give us final approval for Ellery’s citizenship. But first… a little back story about how [...]

Yes, yes. I’m sure you all thought we were so busy playing with Ellery that we would never update again. Well, you were partially right. It just SEEMED like never, but I am updating! Yay!
Here is where we are - we were thinking that we’d have Ellery as a valid, honest-to-goodness US citizen by now, [...]

We made it!
It’s been a LONG time since I boarded an airplane via a stairwell and tarmac, but that’s what we did yesterday. The Air China flight was nice, however. Got us here right about on time.
We’re staying in the Victory Hotel which seems to be pretty nice for us, we have adjoining rooms [...]

The next morning we got up and went down to breakfast before we started the next part of the journey. In December, China changed the rules for new parents and now require that you do passport paperwork in your child’s orphanage province. Which meant that we needed to travel to Wenzhou. Which is a pretty [...]

I feel I should mention that Robyn and I elected not to go to Ellery’s orphanage. I’ll tell you exactly why very soon when I post about our experience on that first day, but I didn’t want to take the credit for the pictures that were actually taken by Mr. Wu who is the Director [...]

The current status is this: We’re awake on Saturday morning and we’re all nice and rested after what could only be described as harrowing days of travel. Not being negative, just wow. Anyways, more about that later. I’m going to try and start at the beginning and catch up with where things stand today. Robyn [...]

I would be remiss if I didn’t tell you about the reason why we are going to China in the first place. So, let me explain. Sometime around October of 2005 the wife and I decided that we weren’t done with having kids (and I mean younger, nicer kids) in our lives. We have older [...]