{Blue}

I love blue.
Blue is for the Dodgers.
Blue is for Cal.
Blue is good :-).
Matthew thinks so, too.

Wordless Wednesday

LID! LID!!!

I e-mailed Xiaoqing today (BAAS was closed this last week because of the holidays) and found out that our dossier was received in China and our log-in date was 12/21/10. Woohoo!

This means that we are now eligible to be matched with our little girl!!!

A dear friend of mine said, "Congrats, Chenning! This is so exciting! It's like being pregnant and not knowing how long your gestation is going to be."

Christmas Fun

Fun stuff. We went down to Los Angeles for Christmas. We are a lot, saw a lot of friends and family, and opened LOTS of presents (well, at least the children did - and they loved it). The adorable little girl is my niece, Tabitha. And that is Nathan holding his cousin Evan in the last piccy.

So thankful for the Christmas season and all that it brings. Most thankful for God giving us His wonderful gift - JESUS. Praise Him - He makes all the difference. He is Life itself :-).

Hair Today, Goin' Tomorrow {to Someone Else}

Well, I chopped it. My hair. This is the second time I have grown out my hair to donate to Locks of Love. If you have never heard of it, Locks of Love is an organization that takes hair (and monetary) donations and creates wigs for children with alopecia areata. Alopecia areata is an autoimmune disease where your body treats hair as an antigen - so people with this condition do not have hair on parts of their body, usually the scalp. It can happen where it is alopecia totalis - where hair does not grow at all on the scalp. As you can imagine, this can be very stigmatizing and devastating for children and adults alike. The cool thing is that 80% of the donations to Locks of Love are actually from children who want to help other children. Isn't that awesome? You can check them out here www.locksoflove.org

Those of you who know me know that I have very thick and bushy hair that becomes a wild beast when it gets long (thus the ever-present ponytail once it is long enough to be tied up). I have had to show my ever growing hair who's boss by keeping it under literal wraps and in things like scrunchies, bands, and hairagami. Anyway - it finally was long enough so that I could cut off the required 10 inches and still have enough to look ok (you can be the judge of that). So - I miss my ponytail, I do - but I am so happy that my hair is going off to help someone. And I feel so much lighter, too :-).