Heading Home

Today is our last full day in China. We are leaving for the airport tomorrow morning. After sleeping in and enjoying the brunch buffet, we spent the remainder of the day poking around the local area, buying some souvenirs, swimming, and enjoying a nice Cantonese meal.We are looking forward to heading home, but will miss China and feel a little conflicted about removing Maggie from her birthplace. As a family we are more committed than ever about returning to China as often as we can.





Big Happy Smiles!












Cantonese dinner. Maybe one of our best!







Thank you deeply for sharing our journey with us. Many of you have been there every step of the way over the last decade as we have struggled and triumphed to create our family and we are so happy that you, and all the others we have met along the way, can share our joy with us now. It has been such a blessing to have all of you in our lives and be able to look back at all the struggles as just water under the bridge. Please visit our blog later after we get home, to see little Maggie Xudi as she settles in to her new, forever home.

And last, but not least, we want to somehow express and send our deepest thank you to little Dang Xudi's birth mother and father. We believe that they loved her very much. So much, that just one day after she was born, they bundled her up and left her on the doorstep of the Datong Social Welfare Orphanage. Not because they didn't love her, but because they knew they were not able to afford and provide the extra care that this special, precious little girl would need. We imagine that they think of her every day and miss her deeply. Maybe if we all give thanks to them, they will somehow know that their wonderful little girl will always be loved and cared for in the way that they had hoped...in the very way that every parent wants to love and care for their own children.








Maggie Xudi Law