This is how our Journey to Fu Yi Huang began....

Hi, I'm Melissa. Starting a little, no very late in this blog. I promise to get caught up very soon:) So, I'll start at the beginning. My husband and myself have been blessed with a beautiful boy, who is now almost 4 and half years old. We've always wanted at least 2 kids of our own and wanted to adopt later on. Well, as it turns out, God had a different plan for our family. Through many miscarriages and the last one resulting in a tubal that required surgery, our days of conceiving were over. As sad as we were, we were thankful to have our son. My heart went out to families who go through this and haven't had a child. I almost felt bad for being upset. Through our grieving, LIGHT BULB, my husband said why don't we go ahead and adopt now. All my feelings of sadness where replaced with joy and hope. So, as every adoptive parent knows, the journey began to find an agency who was a right fit. Well, we found our agency and started the first process of filling out paperwork. With that said we were led to adopt from China. It was our hearts desire to have a little girl and knowing the story of the one child policy, there are so many little girls over in China. The China process for a healthy child takes as of now like 4 -6 years. Well, that wouldn't work we wanted our son and daughter to be able to grow up together. That's when we learned about the Special Needs program, you can have a sweet little one in a year or less. Once you decide to go through with the SN program, you have to decide what your family can handle as far as disabilities, deformities, or just handicaps. Well, we knew there were alot of cleft issues in China and felt like it was something we could handle as a family. More importantly, we were gonna get a sweet little girl with such an obvious deformity and help her. Having had a friend who adopted a little girl with a cleft issue and to see her and how much she has flourished, I knew this was the direction for us.