This blog covers our wait, travel, and adjustment to our 4 year old adopted Chinese daughter Sarah Shui Qing from Nanjing. There are over 1000 posts. I have moved my blog to Catching Butterflies 2. I hope you will enjoy reading this blog. It has alot of information on Special needs adoption. Follow us to our new address Catching Butterflies 2! Thank you for reading!

Wednesday, May 16, 2007







We were in the old city of Heidelberg this morning. Jessica had a Drs Appointment. She was being very sweet and calm. I took these pictures with Jessica, Sarah and Juergen. Jessica wasn’t too happy about going to school afterwards. I’m sure she just wanted to go home. We are worried about Philip. Sometimes it feels like we are in over our heads. There is so much paper work and medical evaluations, and visa stuff. I can do some of it, but poor Juergen has to do most of it. None of our children are just plain “normal”! They all have “special” needs. Even Nicole is gifted and needs special direction. I have to remind myself that our family may not be “average” but it’s no accident. We were placed together by our wonderful God who has a good plan for us. We just need His grace to get through all the “stuff”!