The "why"

I have been asked this before.  I never have had an answer, at least not one I wanted to share.  I was asked again today.

My first answer is always, "Because we are crazy."  And part of me does think we actually are crazy.

The answer lies more in the "why not" than in the "why'.

We have room for another kid.  It may not be easy, but most things worth doing aren't.  Our other kids have not always been easy.  Maybe they've never been easy. 

With 150,000,000 orphans in the world we can't help them all.  But we can give a family to one.

Leaving December 10 or 11, Returning December 24!

No dates yet.....

We did not hear about our travel dates yet.  The agency needs to get permission from the orphanage about which Monday we can meet SL.  After that, they will make a consulate appointment.  Then we can plan the trip!

TRAVEL APPROVAL

We will be leaving soon!

$15

$12 more for diapers from Amazon.

$3 to the local AWANA group for a wooden race car for Colton.  Normally this would not fit my donation requirements, but I did not have any other cash with me.

Photo test

Just trying to see if I can post pictures from email.  This is us at the Grand Canyon, April 2010.

Operation Christmas Child, Diapers, Wipes

$23 donation to Operation Christmas Child to send the shoebox gifts

$31 for a HUGE box of diapers and a HUGE box of wipes from Amazon that were on sale (will stash these for the baby gifts at work)

Test Post

Testing to see if I can correctly create a blog post from my email since we will be unable to access blogger.com in China.

Food bank, food baskets, Operation Christmas Child

$16.00 went to these 3 Charities.

Most were in conjunction with the kids' school donation projects.

The food bank donation was due to a request of the very strange cashier at the Dollar Tree.

Learning to cook good Chinese food

It's time to learn some yummy and easy to make Chinese recipes.  We love Chinese, well, American Chinese, but really don't know any good recipes.  We can make rice.

Two reasons Chinese recipes would be great.

1.  We will have a Chinese member of the family very soon.  (Obvious reason.)

2.  I think I am allergic to dairy.  Or highly intolerant.  Chinese cooking doesn't include dairy.