Homeward Bound

While we miss home, it is with great sadness that we bring our grand adventure in China to an end. It has been a wonderful trip - both a fun vacation and an introduction to their Chinese heritage for A and T. It also ends on an emotional note, between our own trip down memory lane in Guangzhou, and seeing so many other families beginning their journey with their Chinese children, or in some cases adding to families with second, third, forth and fifth children born in China. (Don't worry Bentons, you still hold the record with your sixth adoption in process). We have also seen more older children being adopted this time, and more with special needs that perhaps may not have been adopted if the wait for them was not so much shorter than healthy babies, which we are told is now up to five years. In the end, the result is the same - grateful and happy families...

And this grateful and happy family, while loving China, is looking forward to clean bathrooms and plentiful toilet tissue. I will, however, miss the inexpensive foot massages. Tori says she will miss all the cute babies, and is most looking forward to seeing our dogs. Ali says she will miss holding the panda and is looking most forward to sleeping in her own bed (and seeing her beloved teacher, Ms. Wilkinson).

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