Chinese New Year celebration

What fun! Today we were once again surrounded by Chinese folk--mostly little Chinese folk. Almost all of them were in traditional Chinese garb, too, as were most of their American siblings.

We seem to have developed some sort of a fame in the adoption circle. I'm not really sure why. I'm doing the newsletter now, but most of the folks didn't talk about that as much as they did the fact that we're awaiting our referral. "You're the Reids, aren't you? You don't have much longer to wait, right?" from total strangers is a little unsettling. Neat, but unsettling. I kind of feel like we have a tracking device on our dossier and everyone knows where it is but us!

More "neat" was waiting when we got home. My secret buddy on the DTC list had sent the Chinese New Year gift. It had New Year's stamps, money from 8 different countries to which her husband has traveled on business, CNY candy and a Little People doll. The money would have been enough! It is so cool!