Showing posts with label June 1. Show all posts
Showing posts with label June 1. Show all posts

Sunday, June 1, 2008

The First Thing We Saw on Gotcha Day

We made it to Nanchang and arrived at the hotel @ 2:00 p.m. It’s 2:52 p.m. Sunday for us, and at 3:30, we travel to the adoption center to get Ellie!


Here’s the first thing we saw when we opened the door to the hotel room:







As you can imagine it was a tear fest!


It is International Children’s Day, a day that has much significance in Chinese culture. On this day, children are celebrated and children are said to treasure this day more than any other because it is a day for them to receive a gift that they’ve truly wanted and have been waiting a long time for. How fitting that Ellie’s ‘gotcha day’ falls on this day…a day when all three of us receive the gift we’ve truly wanted and have been waiting a long time for…the gift of each other, the love of a mother and father, and the love of a child.”

I’ll be sending more pictures immediately after we get back from the adoption center.