I have to write one more final post before I have this printed and bound for Phoebe just to document the awesome gifts I have received over the course of the past few months.
Here are my most treasured things, but I can't photograph the love, support, advice, friends I have made, people I have met.
From Micki:
Traveling with me because it was the most extreme gift of all. She gave up Mother's Day with her children, 2 weeks of her life at home with her family and a few field trips that she would never have missed for anything else.
From Beth.
The BEST book about a little Chinese girl waiting to be adopted and a little ladybug she meets along the way. She sent this book and frame to me before I traveled to China and I could not read all the way through it even one time without crying.
From my mom:
My welcome home gift of a moon charm with two little loose hearts for me and Phoebe.
"I love you to the moon and back"
How my mom feels about me and I her. Now how I feel about my 3 children.
From Kelly:
My red thread panels that she designed and made.
Castle Park to Nanchang connected by a red thread.
This gift took my breath away when I received it.
Also from Kelly:
A silver ring wrapped with a red thread. How awesome is this?
She gave this to me at my grandmother's memorial service. Perfect gift, perfect time.
From Valerie, Jack, Cella and Taya:
Our first Christmas ornament for Phoebe.
From my mother-in-law, Nancy and her sister, Aunt Kathy:
Two books that will be forever treasured and read over and over.
From Toni and his wife and little boy, Jordi, who is in China as I type this, waiting for them to come adopt him in a few short days. We will use this album as Phoebe's baby book, photo album from all of her photos of her in her orphanage, her nanny, her crib, and as a scrapbook for all of the things I saved for her from China.
From Stasy and Sydney:
Her first doll, an American Girl Bitty Baby
From Alyssa:
Phoebe's 3 year old friend from Seattle who painted this watercolor for her which we laminated and hung on her window. It looks like stained glass when the sun shines through.
Thank you all.
