About Us

We are five couples adopting children from China through Sunrise Adoptions. With the exception of Amelia and Mitch, whose application was accelerated due to Amelia’s Chinese heritage, we all began the process in the spring or early summer of 2005. By the time we completed our homestudies and dossiers, it was November, and our documents went to China in mid-December. The China Center of Adoption Affairs processed our documents on January 24th, 2006, and this became our “login date.” Amelia and Mitch logged in on November 20th, 2006.

When we initiated the adoption process and made our decision to adopt from China, Sunrise advised us that the entire process would take one year. Well, this is not exactly how things went. It seems like a combination of factors slowed things down greatly: restructuring at CCAA, a huge influx of applications, changes in legistation, etc. As communication from the CCAA to the adoption agencies is minimal, we could only guess as to why and…when.

All we could do during our long wait was try to estimate when our turn would come. We could watch discussion groups and various websites devoted, specifically, to rumors and estimations of which login date batch was at the head of the queue.

Note this: when we started, Sunrise’s Group 8 had just received their referrals. It took three years to get to us, Group 15. Currently, Sunrise has 39 groups in the queue! Group 36 was the last to receive their login date: January 11, 2008.

June, 2008 was a tense month! There was a sudden surge in referrals, and finally the big day arrived on July 10th! A week later, our referrals were translated and we received a packet of information about our babies.

Friday, July 11, 2008
Sunrise China Bulletin

PROPOSALS HAVE ARRIVED!!!

We are thrilled to announce that we have received proposals for Group 15 as well as one expedited family from Group 25! Congratulations to Leslie and Wolfgang, Alison and Bradly, Tannis and Lawrence, Amelia and Mitchell, Charlene and Brent! The families were informed about the proposals and provided with photos yesterday while we have sent the proposals off to be translated.

The proposals we received were from Chongqing and Guangxi provinces. The children range in age between 8 and 20 months, with the biggest surprise being the proposal of 4 girls and 1 boy!