Growing Snowflowers

Four days left...


We have sold 55 iPod tickets, not quite the turnout we'd hoped for but still pretty darn good considering Christmas is 11 days away! I have four days left to sell as many as I can, hopefully we'll sell a few more before Tuesday because that is when we will draw the winner! This will be our last fundraiser. We have really had fun trying to raise the money for the orphanage donation fee and we are almost there. Hopefully with a bit of babysitting here and there over the next few months we will hit our target. We're still begging for NWA airmiles...if anyone has any...we have no pride when it comes to getting our daughter home. We are also working with our adoption agency to request an MRI for Paisley while she is still in China, we have offered to pay for the procedure because it is so vital to know what kind of professionals we need to have ready when she gets home, an MRI will give us some ideas as to whether we need to assemble a team of Neurosurgeons or Plastic Surgeons, or both. Thankfully, MRI's only cost a few hundred dollars in China...Mike & I gladly will give up any festive cheer to provide our daughter with the diagnostic tests she needs.

Even though China knows we are asking to be allowed to adopt Paisley, she is not officially our daughter until the day we sign the adoption papers. We have thought of her as 'ours' from the moment we saw her face, but the reality is, we are on borrowed time...and until that day when we can walk away from the provincial government offices in Nanchang with a little red book proclaiming her as ours, our faith is all that keeps us together as a family. For anyone who has ever had to endure the wait for the 'legal' part of an adoption, whether weeks, months or in some cases years...my heart goes out to you...it's not easy.

10pm we have only four tickets left! FOUR, so if they sell we might just be doing the drawing TOMORROW! That means whoever wins will have the ipod in time for Christmas