• Hi There!

    Hi, my name is Jonni and I am Mommy to Sofia (5 years old) and Samantha (6 years old) and wife to John. We reside in upstate NY. Our daughters are 5 mos. apart in age and a whole lot of fun. Sofia is from Jinchang City, Gansu and she turned 11 mos. during our trip to bring her home from China in 2007. Samantha is 5 mos. older but was our 2nd adoption. She was 3 years, 4 mos. when we brought her home from China in 2009. She is from Yangzhou City, Jiangsu.

    I love blogging about our girls, photography, fonts, printables & crafts and I also have a slightly obsessive John Mayer addiction. Thank you for stopping by. :)

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Favorite Blogs

Favorite Creative Blogs: Andrea Joki In Your World Portraits Jasmine Star Photography Kimi Kreations Krissy Allori Photography LJ Holloway Photography Lisa Lucky Photography Melvin Sokolsky Munchkins & Mohawks Orange Girl Photographs The Long Road to China {and back} Willette Designs Gansu Province Friends (Sofia’s Province): The Miller Life Jiangsu Province Friends (Samantha’s Province): Heading for…

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♥ They Warm My Heart ♥

I was walking through the girls playroom today and saw this. They had put their Ni Hao Kai-Lan dolls together in their play highchair and even fixed lunch for their dolls. My daughters just warm my heart.  

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The Gang's Momma - Oh my. How cute is that?! BFF’s forever and ever and ever! LOVE it. Li’l E has two KL dolls and a couple of KL’s friends. She doesn’t really play with them right now. I love them, but she’s not quite as enamored :)

Keeping an Open Dialogue About Adoption & Happy Birthday to John

Last night and tonight I read I Love You Like Crazy Cakes at bedtime to the girls. John has been in Texas for work all week so it has just been me and the girls. The girls brought the book down off their bookshelf and said that it was the one that they wanted me…

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The Gang's Momma - What a great post. Happy Birthday, John. And we’re so in love with that book. We talk freely about adoption around here all the time. Li’l E loves to look at the pics of her with “China Mommy and China Daddy” and we show her the couple videos we have. She’s not connecting it all yet, but the fact that we talk about them is (I’m praying!) paving the way for these same kinds of conversations. She occasionally will use a cuddle/talk time to ask me to give her a bottle like China Mommy used to do (from what she sees in the videos) and when she does, I scoop her up and tell her the story of the first bottle I gave her on the day we met. Then we rock and pray for China Mommy and China Daddy.

BeckyB - Great post – thanks for the great parenting words!!

Back In the Land of the Living

I am fully recovered from Pneumonia and feeling good. I have fallen so far behind with my blog and I am working on catching up. Thanks for the nice comments/emails asking how I was feeling. I feel like I have missed out on so much over the past couple of mos. due to being sick and…

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jessica2chin - Glad to see your updated post, it’s great that you are feeling alright now. God bless!

Clarice - Oh my gosh you poor thing. I’m so glad you are feeling better!!

Michele Fischer Dessecker - sorry to hear you have been sick! Lilly has been sick too. Hope the girls are well. I nned to check out the blog…it’s been so long!

Jaime L Hill - lol…if i could i would!

Jaime L Hill - It has been yucky the past couple months but yesterday and today…60s and gorgeous! Def glad to be here! Wanna move?! Lol

Jaime L Hill - Glad you are feeling better!

Sick with Pneumonia

I have been sick since before Thanksgiving and it has turned into Pneumonia. I have been in bed for the past week and hope to be back on my feet again soon.

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Sue - How are you feeling?

Kathie Hikade - Hope you are feeling better soon!!
Hugs to you!!
Kathie

Mary Marantz - Oh no!! Hope you’re feeling better! Let me know if you want me to bring over some chicken soup! :)

M:)

jessica2chin - Get well soon, and hope to see more updates on your girls ^^
God bless!

Sue - Jonni,

OMGOSH I hope you feel better soon. Im sorry to hear this.

take care
Sue

Colleen - Hoping you are feeling MUCH better!!!! So sorry to hear you’ve been feeling so bad. I’m sure you are on your way to a full recovery!! My goodness, your photos in your header are just too too precious!!! I love seeing the girls together and so happy!:)

The Gang's Momma - Awww, feel better soon! We’ve had lots of health related stuff going on here too…. But none as serious as that. Praying for you!

Jo - get well soon Jonni

hugs
Jo xxx

Fliss LaRosa - Ewww… not good… get better and soon…

Ann Robinson - The cover of the magazine is gorgeous. You have two beautiful little girls. Hope you are feeling better.

Kerri McLeod-Askew - wish you felt better, sending you hugs from the North!!!

Lisa - Oh no! Hopeing and praying you get better really soon. ((hugs))

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