Sending Care Packages

We have the very blessed fortune of making contact with our daughter through a wonderful care package service, "Gifts to China With Love."  (http://www.giftstochinawithlove.com/)  They are a fabulous service and have gone above and beyond to help us make contact with our daughter and her SWI!!!!  (Social Welfare Institute) We can't sing enough praises for it is very obvious, "they have a big heart for these children in China!" 

For those who may not be familiar with adoption talk, a care package service is a way to keep families in touch with their soon-to-be adoptive child....they are like angels!  When working through the long, agonizing process of international adoption and simply wanting to just hop a plane and fly over to China to be with your child but you can't...this is one way to connect with your child during the wait.

To date, we've sent 2 care packages to our daughter.  The first in May, to introduce ourselves and the 2nd in June, in honor of a national holiday celebrated in China, "Children's Day."  We've had the blessed fortune to receive updated measurements of our daughter, updated pictures, including pictures of her with the items we purchased through the care package service.  We also were extremely blessed with a letter written by our daughter!!!!!  Yes, that was a complete surprise...a very welcomed surprise!!!! 

The orphanage (or SWI-Social Welfare Institute) didn't realize she has a forever family in the USA that is working fervishly to bring her home until the care package service placed a call to the orphanage.  (this was the same situation with our son's SWI.)  IT WAS WONDERFUL THAT WE WERE ABLE TO NOTIFY THE SWI THAT SHE NOW HAS A FOREVER FAMILY!!!!!

I look forward to sharing the result of our care packages in the next post.....but for now, it's late on Sunday evening and I'd like to spend time with my dear husband before the evening is over.  Details and pictures to come................