Changshu

Our daughter Brynn was born in or near the city of Changshu, in the province of Jiangsu.  This is the same province that Molly is from and Changshu is less than 50 miles from where Molly lived in Wuxi City.

Changshu is a city in the province of Jiangsu. Due to the mild climate and terrain there, it has enjoyed a high level of agriculture civilization since ancient times, and is named after this, for in Chinese Chang means “always, often” and Shu has the meaning of “crop harvest”.

We are hoping to visit the orphanage when we travel to China.  This is where Brynn lived until we adopted her.  

While we waited during the adoption process for Brynn, we found that that orphanage had a website that was very informative and we found our little girl in several of the photos!

The orphanage looked to be quite nice, clean and well kept.

This made waiting for her much easier.

There's our Brynn in right corner of the below photo!

Here's Brynn with the Orphanage Director.  Director Chen actually connected with us a few times by email and she also sent Brynn a letter via the regular mail.  We think that Brynn may have been a bit of a favorite there.  We learned that Director Chen retired last year but several of the caretakers may still be there.

We won't know about whether or not our request to visit the orphanage will be approved probably until right before we leave for China but we are hoping that the opportunity will be there if it is something that will positively impact Brynn's adoption story.