Checked the mail......

I've ran to the mailbox all week, looking for our appointment time for fingerprints.  --Nothing--  I know, I know, Hailey our Social Worker just sent  me the email saying we "should receive something soon".  There always has to be hope, ya know?

Mike, Taylor and I just got back from running errands.  We had some photos of us printed to put in Aiden's little photo album.  The album was one of the things I'm sending in his care package.  I'm hoping to send his care package this week.  Still had to get a few things in order for that.  Here's a glimpse of the items again.

I've changed my mind about the Funshine toy and the Aquaphor.  I'm going to send it in the next care package.  Yep, Aiden's gonna get another one in a month or so, hehehe! :)   There's one thing I'm adding to this care package though.  We went to Barnes and Noble today to try and find a laminated map of the United States that wasn't too big, but not too small.  Found one, it's not exactlly what I was looking for but it'll do.  My idea behind that was to outline Tennessee  with an arrow pointing to it to show the Foster Family where we live in the US.  I had a thought that if the Family fosters more children after Aiden, they might can keep up with what state the other families are from.  Surely they can figure out our map, right?  Do I get an 'A' for effort?  Or did I fail miserably?  Well,  I am the one that came up with the idea,  so I'd give myself an 'A', but in all reality I might have gotten a 'C'.

I can second guess myself all day long about this kind of stuff.  Korean culture is so different from ours.  It's hard to try and figure out what is appropriate and not appropriate.  On the Korean Forum, the moms have posted so much about what can be considered good gifts verses bad gifts.  As an adoptive family, gifts are considered appropriate.  So when we travel to get Aiden, I will have a carry-on suitcase full of gifts for everyone who will be there to help us:  the driver that picks us up from the airport,  the volunteer tour guide who will show us those amazing sites in Korea,  the doctors and nurse at the Holt office,  the Social Worker at Holt, and not to mention the gifts for each of the Foster Family-- the father, mother, two daughters - ages 15 & 17!  So how am I supposed to know what's appropriate for each of these very important people!?!?  Thanks to those great moms on the Holt International web Forum,  I now have a clue!  Thanks ladies!!!!!!  :)