Merry Christmas!

Getting Closer...

We are headed into the home stretch to bring Matthew home. We hope to receive our travel dates in the next weeks. We have a slight chance to travel in the end of January and a better chance later in February after Chinese New Year.

We have Matthew's room ready, but we are pretty sure he will end up sleeping in our room. We have been told to expect he might even still take a bottle. It is more the norm there, regardless it will give us a better chance to hold and bond with him. We still haven't received an update since his last measurements in the spring. I at least have a little bit of clothing covering the entire 18 months to 3t range. I have told Shelby to expect to go shopping while we are over in Ch!na as we figure out more of Matthew's needs.

Some other families that have recently travelled to pick up their children suggested we bring him his own bag to hold some of his own things. So we did pick up a tiny Thomas backpack to take with us and Jeff requested that our littlest future Asian Zip's fan have his own Zippy, too.

So excited to be bringing him home soon. Just want to hold my boy...

List of random acts of kindness

I saw this on another blog to do random acts of kindness...

*Cupcakes to bank
*Leave encouraging notes or gift cards on cars
*Volunteer your time
*Buy someone’s breakfast/lunch/dinner
 *Send flowers or giveaway flowers
*Doughnuts to school
*Take balloons and/or treats to hospital
*Pump someone’s gas
*Go caroling
*Carepacks for homeless
*Feed parking meters
*Leave a big tip
*Anonymous chalk art or door hangers
*Food gift cards for homeless
*Give gift card to shopper or leave in shopping carts
*Gift cards for single parent
*Birthday/Christmas bag drop
*Make & leave bookmarks at library or bookstore
*Hide $1 bills at Dollar Tree
*Over pay for Contributor newspaper
*Sticky notes on public bathroom mirror
 *Treat for Salvation Army bell ringer
*Donations to Crisis Pregnancy Center
*Tip drive-thru worker
*Muffins to pediatricians office
*Hold the door for shoppers
*Decorate someone’s porch or mailbox
*Leave change at laundromat
*Return shopping carts from parking lot
*Tape change to vending machine or bubble gum machines
*Pay strangers over due fees at library
 *Gift wrap presents for free
*Treats for library workers
*Adopt a family for Christmas
*Bag of groceries with recipes to a family
*Pass out candy canes
*Paint rocks and leave for others to find
*Popcorn, candy & movie rental bucket to a family
*Babysit for couple/single parent
*Handmade cards to nursing home
 *Pay for someone’s Santa picture
*Giveaway balloons/stickers/books to kids shopping w/parents
*Treat for mailman, post office workers, trash collector and/or police & fire station
*School supply donations to a classroom
*Bring up neighbors trash can
*Gift or flowers for custodian at school
 *Give genuine compliments
*Card for loved one
*Pay for car behind you in drive thru line
*Mail handwritten letters of encouragement
*Pick up trash
*Coffee for people waiting for bus or outdoor workers
*Donate blood
*Treat for bus driver
*Donate non perishables to food pantry
*Gift card for all night gas station/store worker
*Share Sonic happy hour
*Leave surprises at playground (Coins, small toys, filled Easter eggs)

Tis’ the season for kindness…you know you want to do it too.