China has announced that January 8, 2023 they will “reopen boarders and abandon quarantine after it downgrades its treatment of Covid-19” according to the South China Morning Post. I think this is a big step to uniting us with Wei Wei this coming year. Hopefully tourist visas will start to be issued again because that is the visa we are required to have to go into China. I have read online that the people who process the adoptions in China are reaching out to their employees to see about bringing them back to work but that was not an official article so I really don’t know if this is true or not. What I do know is there are hundreds of families who have been waiting to adopt kids that are ready to travel and bring them into loving homes.
Wei Wei’s 12th birthday has just passed and we were sent a video and a few pictures of her. Her hair has been cut short and as much as I liked her long hair she is as cute as a button with the short hair also. She had Covid a couple of weeks ago and ran a fever for a short time but seems to have recovered fast and is doing well. We are so thankful to the orphanage workers who have been in this never ending closed rotation. They go to work and are unable to leave until there rotation is over which is usually 2 weeks or more. This is time they are away from their families and I imagine it wears on them and their family.
We are starting the I800a re-finger printing process again because ours will expires in late January. Our home study will have to be redone again as well. This will be the third time we have done these and I pray it is the last but no matter the wait or process we will not lose hope. Wei Wei has already brought so much joy into my life I can only thank God for sharing His love for her with me. We hope we can help bring joy and meaning into her life despite the trauma she has and will experience in the future. Please pray for us all.
