Thursday, February 9, 2017

Translation Please!

And thank you!  Today (02/09/2017) we received an email from the adoption agency saying that the dossier has been translated and is awaiting review.  Woohoo!  It's always nice when I decide to sit down and blog to have a new update. Speaking of translation-Adam has been working on Mandarin lessons.  I am so impressed, it is NOT an easy language to learn at all.  We obviously want to be able to communicate with Fang Tao and others when we are in China.    It hit me the other day as we entered the month of February that Fang Tao has just spent the last January of his life without a forever family.  That was such a deep and wonderful thought!  Thank you Jesus.   Since we haven't received any photo updates from the last one a couple of weeks ago,  here are a couple of pictures from when Fang Tao was a little fellow.

 Isn't he just adorable?

Our adoption journey story continued: At the very beginning of last year we made a cautious inquiry about adoption.  We also, very casually, mentioned it to the kids.  Nothing in concrete, no promises, just feeling things out a bit. God knew that we were about to hit a bump in the road to adoption. We knew that what we were facing meant any talk of adopting was on hold indefinitely.   We both continued to pray, read, ask questions.  And God continued to have our paths cross with other adoptive families.  So thankful for how the Lord works.  We found out in May that Bethel was going to do a huge Find My Family push for all their sweet kiddos throughout the month of June.  Each day for 26 days in June a different child was going to be featured.  At this point, God had done a major work and we were back to seriously seeking God for clear direction about adopting.  We were also praying that God would provide a family, the right family, for Fang Tao.  His feature day came and went, we persevered in prayer.  It became pretty clear that God had found the right family for him-US!  We talked to the kids and our families and in August of last year  we crossed the YES line and began the process.  We had peace and we were in agreement.  So thankful God took us through this process, we have seen His hand all over it.  We trust Him to continue to provide.  So there you have it.  You are up-to-date with how we got here!


                                                         Look at his chubby cheeks!

Interesting Info: I have started an Introduction to Braille class.  I am not reading with my finger pads, but learning the "sighted" version.  I do hope to progress to where I would be able to read with my fingers.  It is a six dot cell system that blows my mind at the simplicity and yet the complexity of it.  Thank you Lord for helping Loius Braille invent this gift all the way back in 1809! It has gone through many varied updates throughout the years.   UEB (Unified English Braille) was officially adopted in the US in 2012.  It includes, letters, numbers, math, computer codes. So far I know all of the letters and numbers.  I need to work on the punctuation.  I am learning Uncontracted Braille right now-which is the simple alphabet, numbers, punctuation and some special symbols.  I've got a long way to go, but I love the challenge and I have always loved learning something new.

If you have a moment and want to watch something interesting (and clean and overall wholesome) simply click this link.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fTBsW7kdo4


Ways to pray for the Harris Half-Dozen:
*Please pray for God's perfect timing in the review of the dossier.
*Please pray for God to continue to keep Fang Tao safe.
*Please pray God be preparing each one of us for this life change.
*Please pray that all we need financially will come in.

Thank you so much,
The Harris Half-Dozen


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