November is National Adoption Awareness Month. While the emphasis of this adoption awareness program is to encourage the adoption of children in foster care, Amy and I are aware of it for another reason; we are parents of a one-year-old girl from China. I'm going to dedicate the blog this week to our adoption, and will likely shut the blog down next week (except Rick and Ann are free to post if they wish) while we travel to Hereford, Texas, where I grew up, for Thanksgiving. I'm thinking of something special to do for Advent blogging when I return on November 27.
In the meantime, all blog entries for the following week are about our family: the Fuhrmanns; Amy (mom), Joel (dad), and Rebecca (the royal daughter).
To start off, here are some entries I blogged from Nanchang, China, while waiting for our plane to Guangzhou to take care of immigration details at the US Consulate:
Amy and Rebecca in a hotel room in Nanchang.
Joel and Rebecca in the Tang Wen pavilion in Nanchang.
All three of us, in royal garb, for a tourist-type shot, also in the Tang Wen pavilion: The Royal Daughter is All Glorious Within the Palace.
Posted by Joel Fuhrmann at November 14, 2004 09:24 PMVery fitting verse for the palace picture. :-)
Posted by: Rebecca E at November 18, 2004 10:08 AM