Letter of Intent sitting in China

Got word today that our LOI (letter of intent) is in China. Should hear back from the CCAA (China Center for Adoption Affairs) in a couple of weeks. Hopefully what we'll hear is that we received PA (preliminary approval). Don't you love all these abbreviations? I'd forgotten how fun it was to speak this way...it's all coming back to me now.

Already your mother

One of the amazing things, I think, about adoption is that you can feel such a connection and a sense of motherhood to a child that doesn't even know you exist. Beautiful Flower, you're already in my thoughts daily. Today, I was thinking about you... at your school concentrating, thinking about you laughing and playing with your friends...then I thought, "huh, she doesn't even know that I'm thinking about her". That's pretty amazing isn't it?