Janine's Project Question #4

4. What kind of feed-back (neg/pos) have you gotten from friends, family, and other people when you share with them your plans to adopt?

I've been amazed at how positive the feedback has been. Mom and Dad are very supportive, especially since their recent return from China. I have no problem seeing them as grandparents for my Chinese daughter. Matt's parents were surprised when we first mentioned this to them a year ago but since revealed that they had considered adopting a child from Asia (Vietnam) themselves at one time. Our neighbors are excited for us and ask us continually about our progress so far. One neighbor wrote one of the reference letters for our homestudy. We have neighbors who are Asian and they seemed to like the idea of having another Asian girl on the block and said that we had a big heart to bring her to America. When we took our family to LA' s China Town recently, some of the merchants there looked at us with a puzzled look on their faces wondering why these white folks and their children were so excited about their merchandise. I blurted out, "We are adopting a baby from China" as an explanation then wondered if that had been such a good idea. All of a sudden, the entire store's merchandise was reduced in cost by 30 percent so I guess they thought that was ok.