An Unexpected Connection: A Friend of Our Daughter!

Today, when opening emails to ensure the USCIS office or our adoption agency was not attempting to contact us via email, I came across an email entitled, "Searching for Texas Family" posted on our GSWI yahoo group.  (GSWI is the abbreviation for Guangzhou Social Welfare Institue-where our daughter is located).  When opening the email, it was a lady searching for the family adopting "Huang Miao," yes, our daughter!!! I immediately replied.

The family sending the email adopted an older girl back in October and during their stay, met our daughter!  As it turns out, the girls are friends!!!  This is totally amazing and what are the chances of finding a close friend of our daughter's...this has been a prayer since the start of our daughter's adoption.  What better way to help Miao to feel more comfortable about a move to the US, half-way around the globe,  than to tell her that we are in touch with a friend's family!  This is surely an answered prayer!!  We've exchanged a few emails and received pictures of our daughter!  We look forward getting to know this family better and one day, getting our girls together.