Our Daughter Lina

Stephanie put together a photo gallery of our snapshots from Referral Day. See “Brown” racing away, two very happy people as we get our first glimpses of Lina, panic at the FedEx box, and [...]

What does it mean? Well, first off, her Chinese name is Tong Min Juan. Tong is from the name of the city where she lives now (Tonggu) and means “copper,” Min means “of the people” and is a middle name she shares with all her “siblings” at the Tonggu Welfare Institute (orphanage), and Juan means [...]

Thursday, I got “The Call” (I was at home; Stephanie was driving home from meeting “Aunt” Kerry in Ashland). See Shane’s page for my description of [...]