Xiaoling and her new family
The Story of Xiao Ling began three years ago. A group of surgeons came to Beijing from Cedar Sinan Hospital in Los Angles, California. They offered to help take one baby with heart problems to the US for surgery at no charge. Healing the Children arranged the escorting and other needs. Our friend Eulilia arranged for us to get in touch with the group and we helped to find an adorable little baby girl, Long Xiaoling, from Sanya to go America.
After the surgery, Xiaoling returned to China, and her foster family in the US made a special request: they wanted Xiaoling to be cared for in Beijing, at our foster home instead of going back to Sanya welfare home. Of course, we were happy to give her care. Xiaoling was carried by a social worker Keever from Los Angeles off of the plane and came to CHI foster home in the winter of 2005. Xiaoling was one of the early residents of our home!
She could speak English and loved only American food at first. But very quickly, she switched to all Chinese food and became part of the big family here. We waited and waited to hear the foster family found a family for her. The family started the process shortly after she came back to China. Xiao Ling was told she would have a family from America to pick her up. She waited and waited, for two years. The big day was December 1, 2007. Jacquelyn and Mark from New Jersey came to get Xiaoling. We had a party for them and celebrated Xiaoling’s birthday early. 
What surprised all of us is the way Xiaoling acted toward her new family! She ran to them with arms wide open the moment she saw them. She called them Mama and Baba and smiled so big that everyone would just melt seeing her that day. She then refused to identify her bed to her new family and many times urged Jacquelyn, “Hurry up! Let’s go!” She told director Wang, “I have now my mommy and daddy!” She hugged her little friends one by one and went with her daddy!
At the end of the party, the rest of the children realized what was going on; they each wanted to be picked up and go with mommy and daddy, too. Little John sobbed as the car started to move, and Peter, Xiao Bai, Min Quan all cried and asked, “Where are my mommy and daddy?” 
There were no dry eyes at the site. Over and over, our children teach us that what they need are their own families! Can we find each of them a family? Even 7-year-old XinLi, who is loosing his sight slowly, and is now on the CHI waiting children list?
