After Baby Ming was matched with our family, the next step was to receive the official travel approval from China. We received our TA on July 17, 2006. This permission to travel meant that we could now purchase tickets and set our appointment to pick up our daughter in China. Our launch time is 5:30pm on August 2nd. One interesting pre-trip activity was to send a box of love gifts to the Orphanage prior to our trip. It was recommended to us that if we were sending a blanket or stuffed animal, we should sleep with it for a couple of nights prior to sending. So for three nights Linda slept with a lavender crocheted blanket that Grandma Butler made, and I slept with a pink Beanie Baby :-) given to us by the McCarty Family. After getting our scent all over these items, we packed them up with a family photo album for the Orphanage Director, a few small make-up gifts for the older girls who work in the Yong Feng Orphanage, and a disposable camera for them to take pictures of Ming for us during this waiting time before we travel. As she leaves the Orphanage, Ming will get to take the blanket and beanie baby with her. Hopefully these items will help lessen the separation anxiety as she leaves her home for the past 11 months.
Sunday, July 30, 2006
The Final Piece of the Puzzle
After Baby Ming was matched with our family, the next step was to receive the official travel approval from China. We received our TA on July 17, 2006. This permission to travel meant that we could now purchase tickets and set our appointment to pick up our daughter in China. Our launch time is 5:30pm on August 2nd. One interesting pre-trip activity was to send a box of love gifts to the Orphanage prior to our trip. It was recommended to us that if we were sending a blanket or stuffed animal, we should sleep with it for a couple of nights prior to sending. So for three nights Linda slept with a lavender crocheted blanket that Grandma Butler made, and I slept with a pink Beanie Baby :-) given to us by the McCarty Family. After getting our scent all over these items, we packed them up with a family photo album for the Orphanage Director, a few small make-up gifts for the older girls who work in the Yong Feng Orphanage, and a disposable camera for them to take pictures of Ming for us during this waiting time before we travel. As she leaves the Orphanage, Ming will get to take the blanket and beanie baby with her. Hopefully these items will help lessen the separation anxiety as she leaves her home for the past 11 months.
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