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
more.

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 either “Donate” or
“Graceful” [...]

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 that experience.
Friday we got “The Package” with all the official paperwork, and the first
pictures we’d ever see of our baby.

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