Philly Area mom, Life forever changed by adoption
For those of you learning Chinese, hoping to learn Chinese, or with children who speak or are learning Chinese. Hope you like this song as much as I do.
I’m putting it on my iphone for Ashlyn to learn. Gotta know how to say Dui Bu Qi (I’m sorry) for when her Mei guo ren – ness (American-ness, spelling massacred there, I’m sure) is totally obvious (if her blonde curly hair doesn’t give it away).
My parents were great–are great. But, I have about 10 pictures of my childhood — okay, maybe 30 if you include cheesy school pictures with either my 70s bowl cut or big bangs and braces. I guarantee I have 0 pictures of graduating preschool. I doubt it was even called graduating preschool. It probably was called something way more ordinary…something like….last day of preschool.
The good news for my kids is that not only do they have thousands of pictures of their childhood thus far (for better or worse). But, Drew officially has preschool graduation pictures. Because, this was no last day of preschool–this was a graduation ceremony, people. I took the older two out of school for the event. We wore dresses. We got there 45 minutes early because Drew’s teacher told us they were expecting 500 people.
There’s something ever so slightly anticlimactic to choosing a giveaway winner when you have a whole….4…entries. But, nonetheless, I went to random.org and put in to select a random number between….1 and 4. And, 3 popped up – Sweet Jerusha who is right now in China bringing home her son who will be joining her other 3 kiddos. She won’t be rockin’ out next week with Alex and the band–instead, she’ll be listening to music over loud speakers from the early 1990s that she may or may not have liked then but that everyone around her things is awesome and brand new. But, she’ll have 3 cds to rock along to when she’s home and has gotten over jet lag. Go pop over and visit her blog to hear how they are doing. Jiushu has only been with them a few days and is having a hard time, sweet little man.
The tickets? Well, I’m offering them to Jena since she’s a local gal.
Even though the giveaway is over, please do head over to my friend Branda’s blog and donate to help her bring her 8 year old daughter Gabriella home from China. Donations there will enter you in another giveaway (a way cool giveaway) with some awesome prizes including a Kindle, a bunch of things from Jiayin Designs, a Starbucks gift basket, a sweet handmade clutch purse, and more. Go, go — it ends soon AND they just got their travel approval today! Yay!
You know I had to post about this business today.
