They Say It's Your Birthday! We're Gonna Have A Good Time!

Today is my birthday! Woo Hoo! I had a perfect day. Flowers, strawberry ice cream cake, sushi, a new, pink ironman watch, and my awesome family showering me with love. I am so lucky to have them in my life!! God is so good to me. The postcard exchange is going well. I received some great postcards from other DTC families all over the United States and world. It's so much fun to read what they have to say. I will put these in Elizabeth's scrapbook eventually. She'll get a kick out of them. Well, I've been thinking of fundraiser ideas for our adoption. Here they are:
1. yard sale in May
2. cleaning services for a day - April
3. dance lessons - May (I used to teach at Arthur Murray's back in the day)
4. Homemade pies - October
5. 5k fun run - Little Jiaozi Run!
I don't know. Hopefully something will pan out.
We will begin our Secret Buddy Swap in April. We will be swapping with a secret someone until our referral. We're hoping to only have 15 swaps. I think this will make the time go quickly. There are so many great families involved in our lives right now. Have a great day!

Making Friends Along the Way

Our DTC (Dossier To China) group began a postcard swap recently. We will be exchanging postcards with other adopting parents of Chinese daughters and sons from all over the United States and Europe. The purpose of the exchange is to help us occupy our time until our referrals come. A referral is when our adoption agency sends us a picture and medical history of our little girl and we say "YES!" The other reason for the swap is to meet other adopting parents who might potentially be travelling with us. Should be exciting.

The Wait Begins

March 1, 2007
We received our LID (log in date) from China on February 8, 2007. This means that now we wait for a long, long time until baby Elizabeth comes home forever. We started the adoption process back in July and began gathering our documents for our dossier (the package with your entire life history in it) in September. We sent our dossier to China on January 12, 2007 and it logged in in February.