We knew from our past experiences that we would have no difficulty loving this child, but we felt it would be different.

I mentioned earlier that we have eight (8) biological grandkids. This is not exactly true. One of our granddaughters is from our son-in-law's first marriage. We love her, however, as if she had been a part of our family from day one. This is why we knew that we could love an adopted child.

How did we feel it would be different?

Because most of the babies coming from China are at least six (6) months old, they have had no contact with English speaking people. We didn't know if this would be an obstacle or not. How would we communicate with the child. Also, this has given them time to become attached to his/her care-giver. Now, they are taken to a strange place and handed to a stranger. What would this be like for him/her. We would simply have to wait and see.

Note: We highly recommend a documentary (China's "Lost Girls") that we saw on the National Geographic channel. It was done by Lisa Ling. Lisa is Chinese. She had always wanted to do a story about "The Lost Girls of China".

Once we had gotten all of these questions discussed, we began to plan the trip.