LOI in Translation! - Plus Nesting & Hand-Me-Downs,

We got an e-mail from Stefani, boxes from friends, and managed to dig a bit out...

We received the following email today:

From: Stefani
Date: February 3, 2005 10:58:52 AM PST
To: Tina Ocheltree <

tocheltree@mac.com

>
Subject: Re: LOI

Charlene is translating the LOI now so hopefully we'll see it off to China in the next couple of days. So glad the other Christine Ocheltree didn't hold you up and we are off and running right on schedule.

Stefani Ellison
China Program Coordinator
Children's House International

http://www.childrenshouseinternational.com

Fully Licensed in Florida, Utah, and Washington
Read about my incredible daughter Taisha at

http://www.waitingchild.org/taisha.html

This feels big, like it's really happening now. Someone is translating our letter into Chinese and it's going to be sent to the CCAA. I know that the wheels have really been in motion from the moment we sent in our application, but now the little steps we've been taking are starting to add up!

We have also begun to receive unsolicited hand-me-downs. One of Tina's pre-school parents brought her a box of clothes yesterday, and a woman I'm friends with at work brought me a bag of clothes her grandson has outgrown. It's funny looking through piles of little boy clothes.

We cleaned out a dresser to make room for the clothes. We are beginning to purge areas to make room. I think I'm going to try to take before and after pictures of the reclamation process in the "green room".

We ended our evening by watching some videos on China. We're down to the dregs of the library's collection. I'm going to have to start reading books now.