The Story of the Linne-Laughlin Family!: Yep, Still Waiting...

Saturday, April 28, 2007

Yep, Still Waiting...

...Told you I'm not a patient person! (I know, I know, it's only been a week. :) Hopefully, we will hear about our Log-in Date soon. On Monday I leave for a big Human Resources Conference in Philadelphia. I have never been to Philly, so this will be new territory for me. I am looking forward to seeing some old Marriott friends and hopefully, hook up with my good friend Lisa from New Jersey. I haven't seen Lisa, or her daughter Sydnie, since we all left China in November 2005. I have never met her other daughter Sam in person! I will be at the conference until Friday, but you can bet your last dollar that I will bring my lap top and will be checking email for our LID daily! On a funny note, I received our referral for Lucy while I was at a Human Resources Conference in Houston in 2005. Business travel must be good luck for me....come on LID!

Praying for safe travels back to my family...

Love, Tracie

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A Profound Quote From my Friend Marry

QUOTE OF THE DAY: I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make a life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated, and a person humanized or de-humanized.If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.

DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL

The Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, and together with Chinese New Year and Mid-Autumn Festival forms one of the three major Chinese holidays. Since the summer is a time when diseases most easily spread, Dragon Boat Festival began as an occasion for driving off evil spirits and pestilence and for finding peace in one's life. The festival was later enriched by the legend of the patriot Chu Yuan. Dragon Boat Festival is highlighted by the dragon boat races, in which competing teams drive their boats forward rowing to the rhythm of pounding drums. This lively and colorful tradition has continued unbroken for centuries to the present day. The festival's significance as a time for warding off evil and disease is symbolized by a number of customary practices such as hanging calamus and moxa on the front door, and pasting up pictures of Chung Kuei (a nemesis of evil spirits). Adults drink hsiung huang wine and children are given fragrant sachets, both of which are said to possess qualities for preventing evil and bringing peace.