Hey Wes, just joining you. It took about 2 weeks of being back to get on top of the pile, but here I am. I'll be keeping up with you now, and I will hold your post quality to the highest of blog standards! Getting the visas is a great step, because you no longer have to worry wether the mail system has lost your passports. And, since you did it early, you can start fretting about that one couple in your travel group that didn't bother to send their's in right away, and might wind up holding up your consulate appointment! There is always one.
So, I heart Ryan Adams too, and when I said "scraping the bottom of the barrel" I kind of meant that I couldn't find a way to use Hotel California in the title, liked the idea of using Kiss's "Room Service" (but thought better of it), and felt like I was left with something obscure. If I had been thinking, I might have gone with the other Adams song with Hotel in it, Tina Toledo's Streetwalkin' blues ("rocks herself to sleep with the rhythm of the rain, beating like a bed up against the window pane of a hotel Rhooooom" (or however he says it).
After an almost three year wait, we received our referral phone call, emailed photo and info from CCAI (Chinese Children Adoption International) at 12:49 on September 5th, 2007. Oh happy day! Suddenly everything became a lot more real knowing that there is a little ten-and-a-half month old girl eating rice porridge for breakfast at 7am in China when we are loading the dishwasher at 7pm; one that will soon be a member of our family! She was born October 25th 2006. Her name is Cen (last name), Li (first name) Jing (middle name) and she is described to us as healthy, alert, a little quiet and a "moderate" sleeper. Her favorite toy is a music box. She recognizes the difference between acquaintances and strangers, she can be a bit impatient at times, and demonstrates all normal motor skills and responses for her age. She is in Heng Feng orphanage in southeastern China in Jiangxi Province.
Wes is a North Carolina artist, workshop instructor and product consultant for Cheap Joe's Art Stuff. His influences stem from the translational and design focused watercolor landscapes of the late Eliot O’Hara and Edgar Whitney, both prominent mid-20th century American watercolor masters. Wes has studied with contemporary watercolorists William B. Lawrence and Cheng Khee-Chee, both students of Edgar Whitney.
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Check! One step closer!
Hey Wes, just joining you. It took about 2 weeks of being back to get on top of the pile, but here I am. I'll be keeping up with you now, and I will hold your post quality to the highest of blog standards! Getting the visas is a great step, because you no longer have to worry wether the mail system has lost your passports. And, since you did it early, you can start fretting about that one couple in your travel group that didn't bother to send their's in right away, and might wind up holding up your consulate appointment! There is always one.
So, I heart Ryan Adams too, and when I said "scraping the bottom of the barrel" I kind of meant that I couldn't find a way to use Hotel California in the title, liked the idea of using Kiss's "Room Service" (but thought better of it), and felt like I was left with something obscure. If I had been thinking, I might have gone with the other Adams song with Hotel in it, Tina Toledo's Streetwalkin' blues ("rocks herself to sleep with the rhythm of the rain, beating like a bed up against the window pane of a hotel Rhooooom" (or however he says it).
Good luck!
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