How it all started

We started this process back in September, 2007 when we talked to a family who had adopted their daughter thru Journeys of the Heart. We had not conclusively decided on a sister for Hannah, but we knew that if we were going to do it, we would have to pursure a daughter thru the Special Needs or Waiting Children program since the healthy child program is taking upwards of 2-3 years. Plus we knew we wanted an older child.
Journeys of the Heart presented us with Tian Yue Rui's file which was due to be returned to China in about a week. If no one selected her and her file went back, she would most likely never be adopted out and she would remain in the orphanage until she was old enough to be turned out into the streets.
We couldn't let that happen!
We let JOH know that we wanted to proceed with the paperwork to bring "Kaia" home.