Care Package

I have received instructions on how to send a care package to my little girl thousands of miles away, whom I've never met.  I am excited to put something together but at the same time a little nervous.  This will be her first contact with us and I want it to show all the love that I feel for her while not overtaxing the orphanage workers with excess.  I know I am obsessing more than I should, but first immpressions are so important.

Okay, okay.  She is only 10 months old with nothing to call her own and anything we send will be more than she had before.  But I am not there to smother her with kisses as I am able to do with my boys and I need to show her that she is valued.  I am not even sure whether it will actually be delivered to her anyway.  I am not so much concerned with that because I am sure whatever I send will find someone in need, even if it is not my precious daughter.

And I am not above bribes, etither.  You can bet that there will be plenty of gifts for the orphanage workers as well.  Not only do they have an impossible job, but they are in charge of caring for little Yishi and I want to ensure her top-quality care.

So I will put something together which will feel completely inadequate in expressing my total love for her, but at least she will have something.  That's really the best I can do and that's all I can really expect, after all...

Introductions

So here I am at my first post.  I created this blog a week ago but haven't posted yet because of this introduction.  It was always stressed to me that the introduction was the most crucial part of a composition.  If your introduction did not capture your audience, no matter how eloquent the rest was, there would be no one to read it.  So I stressed and stressed about my winning introduction and it kept me from typing a single word.  So here it is - my introduction about introductions.  Not terribly captivating, I admit, but hopefully I am not the only one who strives for perfection only to settle for the limitations of my own less-than-creative mind.

The main reason I (well, actually my dear friend, Dar) created this post was to document my family's progress on our adoption of a little girl from China.  We have 2 boys, 2 1/2 and 5, whom we adore more than I could ever express.  But, if you are a mom, you know... 

We thought our family was complete until God revealed that He had a different plan for us.  I don't think that in all my life I have ever heard a call from God so clearly.  I had longed to hear some message from the Most High since I devoted myself to Him.  However, in my typical state of self-unimportance, I thought I didn't matter enough for Him to call me.  So, here I am, called.  I am not sure that it helped with my feelings of importance or not, but it definitely has given me a purpose and a profound joy that could only be attributed to Him.

Our little girl is 10 months old right now and I will miss her 1st birthday since we will not get her for 4 - 6 months.  But, she is beautiful and loved as much as my boys are already.  I will try to post on our family's progress as more evolves.  And I am going to try to cut myslef some slack when it comes to the format of the post.  After all, I doubt anyone would want to read on after that lame introduction....

Until next time...