TODAY is TET (the Vietnamese & Chinese New Year Day!!!) We had quite a celebration of LOVE today showering Maile Noel Thuy with gifts, message board/ notes, video, song...and warm friendships. I was shaking like a leaf almost the whole shower, not only trying to keep the G&R date a SECRET until the right moment, but just all the attention & gifts given was quite overwhelming. I know how I felt today with so much focus on me, I cannot imagine how overwhelmed Maile will be in her transition to the States & the "Crazy" Carlson Krew!!!! It was such a great shower, THANK YOU Susan, Alisha & Jolin for your amazing hospitality, generosity and love!!! The hand-frosted cookies & message board from Susan was so spectacular...I cried for minutes looking at the "Maile board!!"
I know one highlight for me (as well as my friends) was having Mandy there who just returned from Ninh Thuan, Vietnam adopting her littl' girl ANNA. She is also '2' & was in the SAME orphanage as Maile...they were PLAYMATES together & we found each other...living 1 hr. apart! What a gift to give our girls!!! The ONLY thing I wanted guests to do that didn't happen was leave a message for Maile on the VIDEO CAMERA...so if you want, post a comment here & we will keep it for Maile to know those who came, celebrated and prayed for her safe journey HOME!!!!
From the bottom of our hearts, we cannot thank you enough for sharing your time, prayers, gifts & love for our sweet baby girl...there was much laughter, love & tears throughout, what amazing group of ladies I have been honored enough to call "friend." It was so humbling to see my circle of friends from church, school, the Y, real estate, dance, etc...come together to share ONE thing in common: Our LOVE for you Maile Noel!!!!!!!! I wish my best friend from MI, Sybil, could have been there...I know she was in spirit... I hope you get to meet her & "her 3 boys" THIS summer! It's a RELIEF to be able to shout at the ROOFTOPS our G&R date now to come get you Maile...I have tried to keep it a secret since 12 Feb 2007! Yikes. The dance studio will find out this week and everyone will know soon enough that on 14 Mar 2007, you'll be "Forever Ours..." I really don't know how to adequately ever thank everyone for their incredible kindness & generosity, but I pray they will feel it from our hearts to theirs.
Stay tuned, NOW the exciting journey is on the horizon...we have bought our plane tickets for 10 Mar - landing in Saigon, 11 Mar at 10:40pm (YIKES!!!) - then recover on Mon the 12th, leave at 6am on the 13th to see our baby girl for the FIRST time & then Wed. 14th of March will be the G&R ceremony! If all goes as planned, we'll have a flight back to DFW landing on 29th of Mar at 10am!!!! Details to follow Maile's homecoming...it will be as emotional of a day as it was today, if not more so... Wow, my cup runneth over today...Thank you God, Thank you Mom, Thank you FRIENDS!!!
Humbling touched with gratitude, on behalf of Maile...we thank you!
Kim-Lan & her 3 boys
(24 days until we get Maile!!!)
"In love, He predestined us to be adopted as His children..." -- Eph. 1:5
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