It's Christmas Eve
Here we are. Finally it's Christmas Eve. Always such a joyous time for us, getting together with friends and family.
It's 11:00 pm. Marvin is gone to work the night shift. He'll arrive home at 7 am, get a few hours of sleep, then we'll open our gifts. Most every year, Marvin works some part of Christmas day. He says next year he'll be sure to take it off...so he can enjoy it with Kennedy. She'll be 21 months old then. Now that will be fun!
It's Christmas day in China right now. Kennedy is spending her first Christmas with a family that loves her as their own, I'm sure. I'm guessing that they know she will be leaving them soon. It will be hard for them and for Kennedy. I am going to do my best to find out about her foster family. That will be her best chance at connecting to her early life in China. I know other families have done it and I'm not above paying the money to get someone to research it for us. If we don't do it now, the opportunity will pass and there will be no going back. We owe it to our daughter to do this for her. By the time she is old enough to think about doing it, things will have changed and it would be impossible. This is one of my goals for 2007.
40 days until we leave the Charlottetown airport bound for Vancouver and then China. Every now and again it just hits me. Our baby is waiting for us! It's the best feeling ever.
Merry Christmas everyone! Special holiday wishes going out to our family who we wish were here with us...Bev, Randolph and Asia; Wendy, Ellis, Chelsea and Anthony; Marlene, Chuck, Chip and Daniel. We are always thinking of you guys, but especially at this time of year. xoxo
It's 11:00 pm. Marvin is gone to work the night shift. He'll arrive home at 7 am, get a few hours of sleep, then we'll open our gifts. Most every year, Marvin works some part of Christmas day. He says next year he'll be sure to take it off...so he can enjoy it with Kennedy. She'll be 21 months old then. Now that will be fun!
It's Christmas day in China right now. Kennedy is spending her first Christmas with a family that loves her as their own, I'm sure. I'm guessing that they know she will be leaving them soon. It will be hard for them and for Kennedy. I am going to do my best to find out about her foster family. That will be her best chance at connecting to her early life in China. I know other families have done it and I'm not above paying the money to get someone to research it for us. If we don't do it now, the opportunity will pass and there will be no going back. We owe it to our daughter to do this for her. By the time she is old enough to think about doing it, things will have changed and it would be impossible. This is one of my goals for 2007.
40 days until we leave the Charlottetown airport bound for Vancouver and then China. Every now and again it just hits me. Our baby is waiting for us! It's the best feeling ever.
Merry Christmas everyone! Special holiday wishes going out to our family who we wish were here with us...Bev, Randolph and Asia; Wendy, Ellis, Chelsea and Anthony; Marlene, Chuck, Chip and Daniel. We are always thinking of you guys, but especially at this time of year. xoxo
posted by Kennedy and Jaida's mom @ 10:50 p.m.
2 Comments:
At 1:17 p.m., December 26, 2006,
Anonymous said…
Sending you special wishes as your 2007 begins with you travelling to China to fetch Kennedy. This is going to be such an amazing year for you and your family. Yippee no more waiting.
At 2:06 a.m., December 28, 2006,
Anonymous said…
Happy Holidays to you too! And only 40 more days? YIPPPEEEEEE! Next Christmas will be so different!
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