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Monday, July 16, 2007

It has been a while since I have updated our website. A lot has happened since the last time I updated.

At the beginning of June Aunt Chrissy, Grandma Katie and Grandma Vena had a baby shower for us and it was beautiful. It was done in a Chinese/ladybug theme and we had a great turnout. Thank you all so much for coming and sharing our special time. Thank you also for all the beautiful gifts. We received so many beautiful gifts and it meant so much. After such a long wait it gets a little sad at times and I am glad to have friends and family like you all to help get us through.

I would like to especially thank Chrissy, Mom and Katie for all of their effort and hard work. The shower was beautiful and it meant so much to us. Also, thank you cousins for all the food and driving such a long way. Also I would like to thank my best friend, Misty who is pregnant with twins for helping Chrissy get things ready.

As far as a time frame to go to China to bring our Gracie home it looks like maybe December or January (I hope). I know she is worth the wait, I just wish the wait were a bit shorter.

Thank you all for your love and support in bringing our daughter home. She is a lucky little girl to have you all as friends and family and we are too.

To our Gracie,

We often wonder if you are born and where you are. We know God is keeping you safe in his care until Mommy and Daddy bring you home to your forever family. Hold on just a little while longer until we hold you in our arms. Until we can hold you in our arms, we hold you in our hearts. You are with us now and forever.

We love you so much, Gracie.

Mommy and Daddy

Mommy and Aunt Chrissy

Mommy opening all of the wonderful gifts you received

Thank you all for coming to Gracie’s baby shower

Were You Born Today?

Were you born today across the ocean deep and blue?
Did someone wrap you warmly? Did they stop and gaze at you?

Did they look upon your almond eyes and touch your silken hair?
Did they stop to kiss each tiny toe, hear your breath upon the air?

Did you hear a soft voice comforting, securely in her arms?
The warmth of two souls bonding, oh, the lure of newborn charms.

Were they charmed by every movement; every yawn and stretch and pout?
Did they celebrate with handshakes and good spirits all about?

(Or were the tears mistaken, as they fell upon your face?
Their eyes were wells of sorrow? Their heads hung in disgrace?

Did they tremble when they realized the thing that would be done?
Did they mourn the new day coming, with the rising of the sun?)

Did they place you, oh so tenderly, in the place where you were
found?
Were those blankets wrapped up tightly to deny the cold, hard ground?

Did she whisper words of comfort with a love that was so deep?
Did she recognize the features of this one she could not keep?

Did you feel the night wind blowing as it carried in the morn?
Did you hear your mother weeping on the day that you were born?

And here across the ocean a mother weeps for you.
How long before she travels `cross that ocean, deep and blue?

How long before she gazes at those little dimpled hands?
How long before she travels to that promised, distant land?

Her heart is filled with gladness. Her dreams are coming true.
The secret thrill of motherhood, across that ocean deep and blue.

And she'll gaze upon your almond eyes and touch your silken hair.
She'll stop and kiss each tiny toe….feel your breath upon the air.

And you'll hear a soft voice comforting; the worlds so insecure.
Two fragile souls are bonding as they hold each other near.

She'll be charmed by every movement; every yawn and stretch and pout.
And she'll celebrate with handshakes and good spirits all about.

And you'll hear the night wind blowing as she rocks you off to sleep.
And she'll whisper words of comfort, with a love that is so deep.

.....And far across the ocean a mother weeps.....

-Mary E. McRae
7-13-04

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