Saturday, February 23, 2008
TA! Travel permission received !
I have received travel permission and booked my flight to leave Newark on March 5th! My father and I will spend a few days in Beijing with some of the other fellow Xingfu families.
Johnny will be home soon....(March 21 to be exact)! I will try to keep us with the blog while in China but being 'computer illiterate' may pose a challenge for me to do so. I hope to hear from all of you while away so PLEASE post messages. Here is our itinerary as I understand it:
March 5- Leave Newark to Beijing (13.5 hours)
March 8- Fly to Nanjing
March 10- "GOTCH DAY"! They will bring Johnny to the Cival affairs office in Nanjing where I will meet him for the first time!.
March 11- Adoption ceremony!
March 15- Fly to Guangzhou
March 18/19- American Consulate appointments- adoption is complete.
March 20- fly back to Beijing, THEN HOME!!!
I have received travel permission and booked my flight to leave Newark on March 5th! My father and I will spend a few days in Beijing with some of the other fellow Xingfu families.
Johnny will be home soon....(March 21 to be exact)! I will try to keep us with the blog while in China but being 'computer illiterate' may pose a challenge for me to do so. I hope to hear from all of you while away so PLEASE post messages. Here is our itinerary as I understand it:
March 5- Leave Newark to Beijing (13.5 hours)
March 8- Fly to Nanjing
March 10- "GOTCH DAY"! They will bring Johnny to the Cival affairs office in Nanjing where I will meet him for the first time!.
March 11- Adoption ceremony!
March 15- Fly to Guangzhou
March 18/19- American Consulate appointments- adoption is complete.
March 20- fly back to Beijing, THEN HOME!!!
Monday, February 4, 2008
Letter Seeking Confirmation received!!!!! (and his name)
On January 22, 2008 I received my letter! Letter Seeking Confirmation is an acceptance letter from China stating that the match between you and your child is official! (Abbreviated LSC) I had been waiting anxiously for that letter since November...
Now the only thing keeping me from my son in China is Travel Approval (TA). Typically that takes 5 weeks to get but with the Chinese New Year a few days away, it may very well be longer. Once TA is received, the adoptiona agency will arrange my consulate appointments in Gunagzhou, I can I arrange my trip to China. My father will accompany me. The current plan is to spend a few days in Beijing, travel to Nanjing to meet my son, then continue to Guangzhou to complete the adoption process and make it official and fly home from Hong Kong.
His name....
I have thought long and hard about what to name Chang JiZhong. A few months back I received a video update on him. He is SO big and has his own firey personality! I thought this would help me give him a suitable name that fit him. I realized that all the names I had thought of didn't suit him at all. Over and over again in his video his nannies were calling him "John-John" (as 'Zhong' in Chinese sounds like 'John' in English). He responded to his name. Its the only thing he will probably leave China with that is somewhat his own. Therefore I am going to keep it as such. (Especially since most of my family member who have seen the video call him 'John-John' anyway!) Regardless as to what anyone may or may not be thinking, he was not named for anyone inparticular with the exception of my wonderful Uncle Johnny who died several years back and who I have the best memories of from my childhood. So there you have it...John JiZhong Gallagher is his American/Chinese name!
On January 22, 2008 I received my letter! Letter Seeking Confirmation is an acceptance letter from China stating that the match between you and your child is official! (Abbreviated LSC) I had been waiting anxiously for that letter since November...
Now the only thing keeping me from my son in China is Travel Approval (TA). Typically that takes 5 weeks to get but with the Chinese New Year a few days away, it may very well be longer. Once TA is received, the adoptiona agency will arrange my consulate appointments in Gunagzhou, I can I arrange my trip to China. My father will accompany me. The current plan is to spend a few days in Beijing, travel to Nanjing to meet my son, then continue to Guangzhou to complete the adoption process and make it official and fly home from Hong Kong.
His name....
I have thought long and hard about what to name Chang JiZhong. A few months back I received a video update on him. He is SO big and has his own firey personality! I thought this would help me give him a suitable name that fit him. I realized that all the names I had thought of didn't suit him at all. Over and over again in his video his nannies were calling him "John-John" (as 'Zhong' in Chinese sounds like 'John' in English). He responded to his name. Its the only thing he will probably leave China with that is somewhat his own. Therefore I am going to keep it as such. (Especially since most of my family member who have seen the video call him 'John-John' anyway!) Regardless as to what anyone may or may not be thinking, he was not named for anyone inparticular with the exception of my wonderful Uncle Johnny who died several years back and who I have the best memories of from my childhood. So there you have it...John JiZhong Gallagher is his American/Chinese name!
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