Thankful hearts!

We just meet with our guide to go over our paperwork before meeting Kara in just a few short hours. She gave us the most amazing news! May gave us a translated copy of Kara's Finding Ad (an ad placed in the local paper asking for family to come forward to claim a child before he/she can be declared an orphan). According to the finding ad, Kara was found seven days after her birth,( a fact we already knew and we have always felt that her birth parents really wanted to keep her but discovered they could not take care of her cleft lip/palate needs thus the delay between her birth and finding day)outside of a popular hotel with 2 sets of clothing from her family, and 120 rmb or $20 to help send her to the Fuling Social Welfare Institue-a much nicer orphanage than the one Kara would have gone to in her local village/province! Our guide claimed that she had never seen this before and she has been working with families for 7 years! Our hearts are exploding with joy at the thought of Kara being so loved by her family and also heartbroken for their loss of this precious baby. We wish there was some way for us to express our thanks and love for them and we would want them to know how loved Kara is by not only her Mommy, Daddy, and brothers but by her extended family and so many friends. Emotions are running high today and I look forward to the day we can share this amazing story with our daughter so she will know she has always been loved!