Tuesday, February 10, 2009

A precious gift from China.............................

We received a most wonderful gift from Alina Jayne's SWI (orphanage) today!

About a week or so ago, a member of the Yuanling Yahoo Group that we belong to posted a message to let everyone know that the director of the SWI (Director Zhao) had sent a box of Chinese New Year cards to her to distribute to families with children from Yuanling in the USA. We were so thrilled to be able to receive such a wonderful gift from the woman who not only gave our daughter a last name in China (Zhao), but was also responsible for starting the Foster Care program that allowed Alina Jayne to live in a loving foster home from the time she was one month old until we adopted her at age 15 mos.

The card is beautiful! Most of the text is in Chinese, so we will have to e-mail a copy to our WONDERFUL translator, Stephen So (http://ssotranslations.tripod.com) to find out what it says!

(Front)

(Back)

(Inside)

(Envelope)