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Merry ChristmasTo everyone who is celebrating today, Merry Christmas. On this Christmas Morning I feel so blessed to have the family that I have. And my heart is breaking for the daughter that is not yet with us, but is somewhere in China. Unless she is in foster care there will be no presents for her, but I hope she is warm and has enough to eat. 
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December 25th, 2006 at 8:37 am
RQ, Merry Christmas to you too and to everyone else!
I feel the same as you… knowing our 2th child is somewhere in China……..
Big Christmas-hug to everyone!
Thanks for this site. RQ!!!!! :-)
December 25th, 2006 at 8:43 am
Merry Christmas to everyone. I hope and pray that we all have our children by next Christmas, that would be the biggest blessing of all.
Thanks for everything RQ.
Joanie–LID 5/26/06
December 25th, 2006 at 8:46 am
Merry Christmas all!
I’m so sorry there were no referrals this week, what a wonderful Christmas that would have been for all those families who are eagerly anticipating it.
For those who are waiting, take joy in those you have to share the day with…savor every moment, they go by so quickly!
(It’s 8:45 am on Christmas morning, but all four kids are still sleeping…that’s kind of weird around here.)
December 25th, 2006 at 8:50 am
Sorry I put in the wrong LID date, we are DTC 5/26/06 and LID 5/30/06. Maybe some Christmas induced brain cramp.
December 25th, 2006 at 9:20 am
Merry Christmas to all and please those with children enjoy the day and make them the focus and remember us without children who still wait in this long line with hopes of the pittar patter of little feet at this time next year.
December 25th, 2006 at 9:37 am
Ditto RQ
B
LID 4/19/06
December 25th, 2006 at 9:47 am
Merry Christmas everyone!
May it be the last Christmas without our little ones.
May our children that are still in China be warm and well taken care of until we can get to them.
Rachel LID 9/12/05
http://www.ourbabynews.com/margaux
December 25th, 2006 at 9:56 am
Merry Christmas to everyonecelebrating today.
Did anyone else notice the “Merry Christmas” floaty on the CCAA website?
December 25th, 2006 at 10:09 am
Merry Christmas RQ and everyone else!!! :-)
To everybody that celebrates Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and I am sure I am forgetting a couple of others… Happy Holidays to you and yours!
Claire
LID 10/10/05
almost next!!!!!
December 25th, 2006 at 10:14 am
Merry Christmas to All!
In anticipation of our daughter’s arrival this Christmas, my cousin knitted a stocking for her ~ last Christmas. It has the Chinese symbol for love on the front and she wove a red thread through the top. It is hanging up with my husband’s, son’s and my stocking. When we were opening presents this morning, it was bittersweet but a wonderful reminder of what is to come.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Jo-Anne
2/28
December 25th, 2006 at 10:21 am
Merry Christmas to all celebrating. May you all enjoy the day with your loved ones. I pray for referrals for at least SOB this coming week. Have a wonderful day and peace, happiness and love to all.
Meg
LID 9/29
December 25th, 2006 at 10:23 am
blessings to all today. May this coming week bring a large batch of referrals. May our children in China be warm and loved today and until they can be placed in our arms.
Meg
LID 9/29
December 25th, 2006 at 10:24 am
Joyeux Noël à tous!
Merry Christmas!
December 25th, 2006 at 10:38 am
May out children in China be happy, healthy and well loved today.
Meg
9/29
December 25th, 2006 at 11:17 am
allow me to echo the sentiments here…
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays/New Year to everyone. Our Christmas is alittle brighter because we were able to find a flight from LAX back home here in Denver yesterday (Sunday) morning when there were certainly almost no flights available. I hope our fellow Coloradoans were able to get home safely as well.
It is nice to be back home and even nicer having our dear Autumn Rose here with us. While we have uncertainty ahead of us over the next few days with all three of us recovering and adjusting, we know that we’re a family and this, my friends, is the meaning of the holidays. Family and being able to share and spend time with those you love and hold dear.
For all of you still waiting, especially those about to receive referral, I’m sorry that it didn’t come by today, but know that regardless of when it comes, it is the best gift and the most amazing moment in your lives. Our hopes and wishes of good fortune to everyone.
T & G
December 25th, 2006 at 11:23 am
TG – welcome home to all three of you!
As one of those who is “next,” I’m holding that thought close. For me, it won’t truly be a complete Christmas until I see her precious face. Soon, very soon I hope, for all of us who are still waiting. Today, I am just grateful for the wonderful people on this site who help me make it through.
Lee (LID 9-9-05)
December 25th, 2006 at 11:26 am
Happy Holidays to us all! I agree with everyone else, as we opened gifts this morning and I watched my nieces and nephews all I could think about is our daughter. So my thoughts and prayers are with us all in this long and emotional journey. I hope the Sept referrals show up soon, and remember please share the pictures. It keeps the rest of us going! Happy Holidays again………
December 25th, 2006 at 11:33 am
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
December 25th, 2006 at 11:40 am
Merry Christmas!
December 25th, 2006 at 11:41 am
Merry Christmas from Northern Sunny Minnesota today!
We are thankful for so much today! And, hopeful for a week of belated gifts for those of you who are next, waiting for REFERRALS, TA’s, PA’s, etc.. And really hoping that we see RQ’s best case scenario beyond September and breaking into October too!!! Hoping to be on deck soon in the New Year!
Blessings to all waiting wherever you are! And, welcome home TG and all the new parents out there! What a special time of year to be celebrating!!
Merry Merry,
Diana (DJR) 10/24/05LID
December 25th, 2006 at 11:54 am
Merry Christmas, everyone. And a shout out to our daughter-to-be, hoping she enjoyed her day and is well taken care of.
December 25th, 2006 at 12:08 pm
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Here’s to our children in China for a warm, happy, healthy and loved day.
Meg
LID
9/29
December 25th, 2006 at 12:30 pm
Merry Christmas from Northern Virginia, where it’s raining, unfortunately.
December 25th, 2006 at 12:41 pm
Merry Christmas to all,
I echo the sorrow of so many of you who are up next but keep in mind, there are probably only 3 to 5 days seperating you from seeing your baby. WOW!!! That is close. I wish you all could have seen your babies before Christmas but now that Christmas is here and tomorrow it will be gone, your babies will be here next. HOW EXCITING!!!! I am praying for SOB and hopefully we will be up next!!
Merry Christmas,
Christy
10-17-05
http://www.bock.redthreadkids.org
December 25th, 2006 at 12:44 pm
Merry Christmas to our large RQ family. You have all made this year bearable with all the ups and downs and now the hard wait for TA. Our comfort on this most sacred of days without Tori is knowing that she cannot miss what she has never known. To echo RQ, we hope she is warm and has a full tummy.
Blessings to all and wishes for all of our dreams to come true soon!
December 25th, 2006 at 12:52 pm
A very very merry Christmas to the entire RQ community!!
May next year (or the year after….or the year after) bring us our children from China!
tgredthread – welcome back!! We followed your trip to China, and are glad to see the three of you back home for the holidays!
December 25th, 2006 at 1:13 pm
What a day for hopeful hearts! This joyous day is somewhat overshadowed by the thoughts of our incompleted family. We are feeling the emptiness really intensly for the first time in this almost 16 month wait. Yet, we are hopeful referrals will relieve us of our aching hearts soon. Joyous Christmas and Blessed New Year to all!
p.s. love the anti-spam word!
December 25th, 2006 at 1:24 pm
Oh RQ,
I share your thoughts.
I am behind you in the process (lid 1st Nov 05) and have been very emotional all day at the thought of my daughter waiting in China (even more than usual).
Kate
Waiting in Wales
http://kes44p.blogspot.com/
December 25th, 2006 at 1:25 pm
PS
Happy Christmas to all – let’s hope there will be another place setting at many of our festive tables next year. x
December 25th, 2006 at 1:29 pm
Merry Christmas to all! Happy New Year too. I have to admit it was hard, but I know we are going to see our beautiful daughter soon! SOB. I appreciate everyone on this site. It’s such a comfort!
Have a good one and here’s to some new rumors tomorrow!
Jennifer
LID 9/26/05
December 25th, 2006 at 1:48 pm
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everyone.
Here’s to SOB next week.
Hang in there.
A special thanks to RQ. I sincerely appreciate the effort you put into this site.
December 25th, 2006 at 1:49 pm
Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah,
We celebrate both coming from my fathers side of the family. Ellie gets the best of both worlds. Since she is only 3 years old (4 in April) we only do the first 2 nights of Hanukkah and then Christmas morning.
This was Ellie’s first, somewhat, realization of what today’s holiday is. We did the whole sitting in Santa’s lap thing and even tracked Santa on NORAD last night.
At 10pm when we could finally wind her down she became wide eyed and terrified. Out of nowehere. As I was reading her books she would look up to her high windows and looked worried. Then the questions followed:
How will Santa get in the house?
Will he come into my room?
Are the windows locked?
Then the flood of tears came. Fred and I felt hopeless. The month was filled with the anticipation of Santa. We did not want to leave her in her room (other side of the house) with this anxiety so she was allowed to come and join us in bed for the night. She fell right to sleep (once she was allowed to come to the alarm panel to see daddy set it).
This morning, after getting an elbow in the nose, she shot up and rolled over her father to get to the living room. 4 presents were waiting for her. She got exactly what she wanted: A dolly, a doctor kit, new sneakers, and a new video. They are so easy to shop for!
Hoping that 2007 brings us word of our daughter, Sagan Amelia.
LID 6/15/06
Love to all my fellow RQ subjects!
Jeanne
Orlando, Florida (VERY RAINY AND STORMY TODAY!)
December 25th, 2006 at 2:10 pm
RQ-
Thank you for the help. You are truely a blessing.
Happy holidays to all.
Meg
LID 9/29
December 25th, 2006 at 2:22 pm
Merry Christmas everyone! And here’s hoping to seeing referrals and TA’s this week.
DOR 12/1/06
December 25th, 2006 at 2:35 pm
Here’s to a wonderful end to 2006 filled with smiles and referrals. Cheers to a happy 2007 with many families coming together and lots and lots of LOVE. Thanks RQ…you have no idea how much you mean to so many of us.
LID 10-18-05
December 25th, 2006 at 2:59 pm
Merry Christmas Everyone! It certainly hasn’t been the typical Christmas that’s for sure..for one thing, the darn turkey didn’t thaw out!!! SCREAM! But, Kim’s yummy recipes were AWESOME this morning… (thank you Kimber!) – So….since it’s rainy it’s a great day to watch the new movies and just chill out…literally! ha Just looking forward to what day referrals arrive! This just HAS to be the Christmas to remember!!?
9/29/05 – barely hangin’ on!!!!!!!!!
December 25th, 2006 at 3:22 pm
Merry Christmas to everyone. Special wishes for our our daughters and sons in China…they will be so loved when they come home!
December 25th, 2006 at 3:28 pm
Merry Christmas to all from a long-time British lurker. We have had a quiet, pleasant Christmas, with just my sister here, and our gentle, daft dog, and too much to eat – and oh, I want a noisy Christmas, with childish giggles and screams and silly wind-up toys, I want it so very, very much…
December 25th, 2006 at 4:22 pm
RQ, I know exactly how you feel. It’s hard to be in the Christmas Spirit, when your daughter is out there and you don’t know how she is and you’re wondering is she warm and has she had plenty to eat. The only thing that has gotten me through today is knowing that we’re next and we should see her precious little face soon!!! Our day has been full of “next year she’ll do this or that”!
Praying we hear something soon……I’ll be lurking around the CCAA tonight, just hoping for that last minute Christmas gift of knowing our referrals are on there way!!!!
Merry Christmas to my RQ Family!!!!!!!
December 25th, 2006 at 4:55 pm
Merry Christmas everyone!
Welcome home TG!
Best wishes to all for the new year, for those still waiting for their referrals, and to all with their new little ones at last!
December 25th, 2006 at 5:57 pm
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to RQ and everyone in this great community.
T&G&Autumn, relieved to hear that you’re safely home!
Whether it happens in 2007 or 2008, no matter how long it takes, we WILL have our babies!
Hang in there!!!
December 25th, 2006 at 6:02 pm
Merry Christmas to everyone and Happy Holidays to all.
I echo everyone’s sentiment about the sadness in having to
wait for our referrals, but we are one day closer…
I have been on call since Friday morning and am at the hospital as I type (mildly sleep deprived). I hope tomorrow brings at least one rumor and it is a good one.
LID 9/12/05
December 25th, 2006 at 6:24 pm
A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!
from Saint John,NB Canada
December 25th, 2006 at 6:27 pm
My heart is aching so much for our little one who is not yet with us so much I can hardly bare it, holidays are the worst because you are surrounded with your family, yet…one very important member is missing…sigh.
Zoe
9/29/05 (next!)
December 25th, 2006 at 6:32 pm
Merry Christmas to everyone any happy new year from Barcelona .
LID 9/23/2005
December 25th, 2006 at 6:55 pm
Does anyone know, will CCAA be opening our time around 8 or 9 PM? If so, maybe there could be a website change? I know there are no rumors that point to it, but aren’t we getting to referral time at this point and haven’t we been totally shocked before when they changed the website with no hint at referrals being mailed? Maybe I am remembering wrong and am just hoping?
Meg
LID 9/29
December 25th, 2006 at 7:15 pm
KDMommyDoc, you’re next!
Keeping everything crossed here that everyone hears this week or next… in any case, VERY soon.
December 25th, 2006 at 8:38 pm
Merry Xmas to all my dear cyber friends. I can only imagine your faces and leave my imagination to fill in the blanks. Male and female. RQ and RK a very special Merry Christmas and thankyou for all you have done in 2006. Lets see some referrals soon especially your own.
Lots of hugs and cheers.
December 25th, 2006 at 8:54 pm
mclark… first of all, hope your Christmas was brilliant!! Sorry we missed hooking up in W-S though! Did ya notice the traffic?? Ack!
Anyway… I was on the same thought pattern tonight… could the CCAA pull the wool over our eyes and change that silly box without any of us thinking about it?? Sounds sneaky… I think I’ll keep my finger on refresh for that site tonight… :-)
December 25th, 2006 at 9:00 pm
Merry Christmas to all!
Thank you Kim (Kimber) for the delicious recipes! :)
December 25th, 2006 at 9:03 pm
I promised myself I wouldn’t go online today…you see how well that worked!
I just had to share a sweet thing my 7 year old niece said to me tonight. We were eating Christmas dinner and she said “Aunt T I’m sorry Santa Claus didn’t bring Lily home to you. I know you must be sad but don’t worry maybe the Easter Bunny will.” How cute is that!?
Happy holidays to all and welcome home T, G, and Autumn Rose!
TJ
10.18.05
December 25th, 2006 at 9:13 pm
Merry Day after Christmas from Seoul,
Ours was bittersweet too..even with our 3 strong believers in Santa in the house (ages 7,6,2,) it was sad to see our son’s stocking hanging there without him home to open it! I just hope he had a warm and lovely day!
Let’s hope for speedy TA’s and Referrals next week!!
Amy in Seoul,
TA day 47
December 25th, 2006 at 10:27 pm
Merry Christmas!!! Just wanted to share the one and only gift our three year old wanted from Santa, a cell phone so she could call her sister and tell her it was time for her to come home. Our three year old is from Hubei and the love of our lives. Can’t wait to meet daughter #2. 9-12-05
December 26th, 2006 at 2:30 am
Merry Christmas!
I wanted to start a tradition of building gingerbread houses with all the kids. We used Martha Stewart’s idea of using Graham Crackers. Well, they kept collapsing over and over. I was worried the kids were going to start bawling. Finally as one was falling apart in my hands while I was frantically trying to save it, I looked up at my niece who had been waiting patiently. She started cracking up laughing. I had to laugh too….really hard……why is it I get the feeling Marha likes to print ideas she knows only SHE can do? When will I learn?
I promised real store-bought, stale gingerbread for next year. But for now I am stuck with 35 lbs. of candy. :)
December 26th, 2006 at 2:30 am
Merry Christmas!
I wanted to start a tradition of building gingerbread houses with all the kids. We used Martha Stewart’s idea of using Graham Crackers. Well, they kept collapsing over and over. I was worried the kids were going to start bawling. Finally as one was falling apart in my hands while I was frantically trying to save it, I looked up at my niece who had been waiting patiently. She started cracking up laughing. I had to laugh too….really hard……why is it I get the feeling Marha likes to print ideas she knows only SHE can do? When will I learn?
I promised real store-bought, stale gingerbread for next year. But for now I am stuck with 35 lbs. of candy. :)
December 26th, 2006 at 2:30 am
Merry Christmas!
I wanted to start a tradition of building gingerbread houses with all the kids. We used Martha Stewart’s idea of using Graham Crackers. Well, they kept collapsing over and over. I was worried the kids were going to start bawling. Finally as one was falling apart in my hands while I was frantically trying to save it, I looked up at my niece who had been waiting patiently. She started cracking up laughing. I had to laugh too….really hard……why is it I get the feeling Marha likes to print ideas she knows only SHE can do? When will I learn?
I promised real store-bought, stale gingerbread for next year. But for now I am stuck with 35 lbs. of candy. :)