Phil Meadows (who I worked with on Fanzing, Job Wanted, “Melvin and Marvin Middler, Time Meddlers” and Metro Med #0) has just embarked with his wife on a trip to China to pick up their new adopted daughter. I would just like to wish them the best and welcome their new girl, Julianna, to their family.
Sherry Meadows has been blogging the last few months of preparation, and we can watch the site for updates. Phil says they’ll arrive on Sunday and will have Julianna the next day. Here’s hoping all goes well.
And yes, this is one of the reasons Phil had to leave Metro Med to concentrate on his home life (I’ll be kicking off the artist hunt this week). Adoption is a long, arduous process, with nothing but bureaucratic hassles. At one point, getting approval had taken so long that much of the paperwork they had gone through was reaching its expiration date and they’d have to start all over!
Please keep the Meadows in your prayers.
Best of luck and congratulations to the whole family. My wife and I have one daughter we adopted from Russia (Anastasia, 6 years old) and one daughter we adopted from China (Emma, 3 years old). Both adoptions were adventures for us in the best sense of that word. There were ups and downs in both, but in the end we treasure our memories of the trips we took, not to mention the priceless additions to our family. We hope that your experience will be as memorable as ours were.