Welcome World!

This is our first adventure in blogging. We are Joe and Jane. We've been married four years and have been together for ten. Joe lives for movies, music, fantasy sports and perusing periodicals. Jane loves to travel and has so far accomplished her goal of visiting a country for each year she has been alive - meaning she has traveled to thirty-something countries. Jane also likes reading novels, hanging out with her family and going outside every day.

We have a daughter named Jia, formerly Qi Jia Kun. She was born in China in August 2005 and joined our family in July 2006. She is an utter delight, has an immense capacity for humor, possesses boundless energy and is as adorable as can be. She is also the direct cause of our caffeine dependence. Her adoption journey is documented at www.myadoptionwebsite.com/jia.

We are now on a journey to adopt our second daughter from Taiwan. It feels very soon but it should take a while. We submitted our application to our agency along with the Taiwan Approval form on January 16th and heard on the 17th that Taiwan had already preapproved us to adopt! It was surprisingly fast! What a change from getting through China's Review Room.

We titled our blog "Love is a Place" after one of our favorite poems (although it should really be titled in lowercase letters):

love is a place
& through this place of
love move
(with brightness of peace)
all places

yes is a world
& in this world of
yes move
(skilfully curled)
all worlds

--ee cummings