The Story of the Linne-Laughlin Family!: ONLY FOUR DAYS TO GO!!!

Tuesday, September 4, 2007

ONLY FOUR DAYS TO GO!!!

WOW!! Only four days left, then Ericka and I leave for China! Time has gone by to fast and we are so blessed to learn that we will be in China 9/21 - 9/25 with our dear friends Scott and Marry, who are adopting a little boy from Gansu Province. Scott, Marry, Ericka and I traveled together to adopt in 2005. It is totally fate that we will be together once again! Love you guys!

The nervous and unfortunately, sick, Tracie

3 comments:

Melanie said...: So, do you leave Saturday or Sunday? I'm excited to see pictures of little Beckett, too. How fun for you all to travel together! I am still in love with him (Beckett)! I hope your antibiotic kicks in quickly! Get lots of sleep tonight! Melanie; September 4, 2007 at 6:00 PM
Anonymous said...: The days are going to go by fast

I will be looking for update every day if not more

love

lisa; September 5, 2007 at 7:39 PM
Riverdruid said...: Melanie can check the Stewart's blog at marrystewart.blogspot.com

And Tracie, had it not been for you we never would have found Beckett (now Sylvan)! But yes, it is fate that we get to travel together and so very, very cool!; September 6, 2007 at 7:53 AM

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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.