Welcome Home Hello Gordons. Welcome back to town. We're glad to have you and the Nintendo back in one piece! With the last piece in place as it were. Looking forward to meeting the new Gordon!
And so when's Maya making us all scrambled eggs for breakfast?
Hooray A huge Mazaltov to you & Maya on gaining a beautiful son & brother, Sammy. May you enjoy much happiness together as a family.
Love your blogs. Looking forward to your safe return. Love Nanna
So happy for you all. I am so looking forward to seeing you all again soon and meeting Sammy. I think Sam already knows how lucky he is to have such a wonderful mum and big sister. Maya you sound like you are doing an amazing job of looking after Sam with mum. I hope things continue to go so well. Love from all of us in Tassie.
"Bout time Here we are all worrying ourselves senseless (hmmm that happened some time ago I hear you say) but I am so Hap-Hap-Happy for you all. Give Maya and Sammy a big smackeroo from us
"Bout time Here we are all worrying ourselves senseless (hmmm that happened some time ago I hear you say) but I am so Hap-Hap-Happy for you all. Give Maya and Sammy a big smackeroo from us
So how goes it? So exciting....I hope everything is going to plan and the three of you are happy and well....Hey Maya, how's the food? Do you like China?
kol hakavod Caroline! How wonderful that you will be saving Sam from a lifetime of these conditions. He's indeed a lucky boy.
But how hard it will be for you that you can' save more...
Sam's life is about to have a miraculous change - his future in Zhengzhou is likely a beggar at best. Can't wait to meet him in ...a few short weeks....when hopefully the sun is shining a little warmer in China (although yesterday was the first day of sun and the bus charged 1 rmb instead of 2 rmb because of the 'warmth' cough cough cough....).
Orphanage I know too well the gut wrenching feeling of seeing these types of conditions. You will feel much better when you have Sam in your care, doing your own thing. Cultural norms and differences are always difficult to get ones head around. The human or should I say inhumane aspect is probably the most difficult to process as this is a human condition or weakness rather than cultural. Very sad. Happy you are going soon to get him. R
You go girls Good Luck! Can't wait to hear that you have Sam and are on your way....fingers and toes crossed for luck....wishing you both all good things
Does this mean no more blogs? I know my family will be very dissapointed if this is the last blog and we are all of the opinion you must do some writing while you are on leave with Maya and get a book out of it becuase we have loved reading the blogs so much.
Back home - where are the adoring fans? We made it home. Having been a pain in the but all the way to KL (thanks to the lovely Chinese man who made a game with the peanut packet that went for at least 40 minutes distracting Connor from caterwarling) Connor fell asleep on takeoff from KL and stayed alseep until landing in Melbourne. We are both feeling pretty shell shocked after 24 hours travelling and 36 hours with no sleep in my case. It's lovely to be home getting our fix of cuddles and kisses (from girls and john) but I'm missing my little 'neice' and her mum and aunty Nicky already. Can you believe my luggage made it all the way to Melbourne no problems then got broken on the flight to Hobart - now navigating through the travel insurance world. Luckily only one item of contents damaged - my genuine Chinese china mug. Looking forward to next installments and have bored Sandra and Helen already with gushings about your gorgeous girl.
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Katrena
Seven years ago, I met my gorgeous daughter, Maya, from the Yang Dong orphanage, and we have been inseparable ever since. Our journey was chronicled on this blog. We are about to embark on another journey to the Zhengzhou orphanage to welcome the newest member of our family, Sam. So, we're puttin' the band back together.... full info
Gail
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What a nightmare trip home! Thank God for small Miracles (meaning Maya)...I hope you are all well and happy...