CARE PACKAGE

Yesterday was a banner day of learning how to send your new baby boy a care package.  Simple stuff, right?  I received the email from the adoption agency explaining the in's and out's of this.  WOW, REALLY!  two pages of rules, costs etc?  Enough to defeat even the most determined of people!  I spent 24 hours digesting the whole thing and researching the costs to ship international to China by most known carriers.....then took a knee at the cost!  Ok, this is gonna be expensive BUT a must!

Then.... in swoops the China adoption whisperer, Sonia!  So grateful to someone crazy enough to adopt 3...no I did NOT typo that number!....lucky young men from China in one year!  NO, NO, NO easy button Cindy, she instructs!  by noon I was so elated this can and was made simple and a boys pj care package will be delivered by next week! But that in itself is not rocket science and shouldn't be!

The best part is we were able to send a letter to him with question that will once translated two ways(once to Timmy, since we don't speak a lick of Mandarin, and in return his response to us!)  This sounds like boring stuff I'm sure, but all we know of our cutey is.... well not much?.  Aside from two year old medical documents and pictures, and three 2 minute video clips on the adoption web site.  That's it!  Yes....this is truly a leap of faith and I have the beginnings of an ulcer to prove it!

In a nutshell....care package bought, letter included, hoping new pics and a little bit of what Timmy likes in this world by next week!  Now what to do to keep myself occupied until next week???

BRAKMAN BUNCH IS EXPANDING!!

Welcome to all of you curious enough to click on the link!  It's official!  We are adopting one very adorable 4 year old from China.  Today it becomes official, as we just received our PA(preliminary approval) from China.  But this is mere words.  This means much, much more....it means our Superman is told he will finally have a FOREVER family!

Let me introduce this cutey!  We will name him Timothy Joshua once the adoption is final.  He is 4 years old and has been an orphan since about 3 months of age(an estimate of course).  He was left on the pavement at the gate of a hospital, most likely because his family knew he was sick and had no way to care for him.  He has a serious heart condition and has had surgery once at the age of two.  He will probably need another surgery once we finally get him in our arms, but we are optimistic from the advice of a congenital heart surgeon.  We have called him Superman thus far due to the extraordinary amount of God's favor upon us.  Please catch up by reading some of the older posts by scrolling down!

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