Saturday, November 26, 2005
How the Grinch Stole Referrals
Written by an adoptive parent due to the recent rumors about CCAA slowdown
It's long but totally worth reading!!
Every person in the world liked referrals a lot
But the Grinch absolutely, absolutely did not.
The Grinch hated referrals, the whole referral season
Now, please don't ask why, no one quite knows the reason
It could be his head wasn't screwed on just right
It could be perhaps , he was always uptight
But I think that the most likely reason of all
May have been that his heart was two sizes too small
Whatever the reason, his heart or his head
He hated these rumors that he daily was fed.
Staring down from his home with a sour grinchy frown
At the nurseries being readied in every small town
For he knew every family from right here to right there
Was busy now buying cribs and a new high chair
"And they're buying up diapers," he snarled with a sneer
"This week are referrals, they're practically here."
Then he growled with his grinch fingers nervously drumming
"I MUST find some way to stop referrals from coming."
For this week he knew, all these mommies and dads
Would wake bright and early for referrals they had
And then, Oh the NOISE, oh the noise,
Noise, noise, noise
That's the one thing he hated!
The Noise Noise! Noise! Noise!
Then these people young and old would sit down and cry
And they'd cry and they'd cry, and I don't understand why.
They'd cry over the hair, that stood in the air
Over just a small picture they'd thousand times share
And THEN they'd do something he liked least of all
The mommies and daddies, the tall and the small
Would all share together the pictures received
The hope for this child, they always believed
And the more the grinch thought of the joy this would bring
The more the grinch thought "I must stop this whole thing."
"Why for years I've put up with it now I must stop referrals from coming!
But How?" Then he got an idea! An awful idea!
The Grinch got a wonderful awful idea!
"I know what to do," the grinch laughed in his throat
And he made a quick Fedex hat and a coat.
And he chuckled and clucked, "What a great grinchy plan!"
"With this hat and this coat, I'll look just like the man
All I need is a truck and I'm ready to go
To the homes in Chicago and south Idaho
Then the grinch started his truck and began his trip
To each waiting family he would quietly slip
All the families were waiting, for him to get there
The waiting was something they could hardly bear
When he came to the first house down on the street
A woman attacked him before he got out of his seat.
"Gimme my package!" the woman she cried
And the grinch stood no chance no matter how he tried
"There are no referrals," the grinchy man hissed
Before he was pummeled by a left and right fist.
"What do you mean?" the woman she screamed
"Gimme my referral for this day I have dreamed."
"But the grinch slipped away, a rather tight pinch
If Fedex men could stand it, then so could the grinch.
But you know that old Grinch was so smart and so slick
He thought up a lie and thought it up quick
"Why my sweet little lady" the fake Fedex man lied
"They're having some problems on the CCAA side."
"So you'll just have to wait another month or two
And when I get your referral, I'll bring it to you."
And his fib fooled the lady, as tears filled her eyes
As he left he could hear her long sobbing cries.
Then he did the same thing to the other people's homes
Lying about referrals, or writing silly poems
"pooh-pooh to the people" he was grinchishly humming"
They're now finding out no referrals are coming."
Their mouths will hang open a minute or two
Then all the mommies and daddies will all cry "Boo-hoo!"
"That's a noise," grinned the grinch, "That I simply must hear,"
So he paused and the grinch put a hand to his ear
And he did hear a sound from the people below
It started in low and it started to grow
But the sound wasn't sad, why the sound sounded merry
It shouldn't be so, but it was merry! Very!
He stared at the people, the grinch popped his eyes
Then he shook, what he saw, was a shocking surprise.
He hadn't stopped referrals from coming, they came!
Somehow or other they came just the same.
And he puzzled three hours till his puzzler was sore
Then the grinch thought of something he hadn't before
Maybe babies, he thought, don't come from the Fedex cart
Maybe babies they're born right in the heart
And what happened then, well in some town they say
That the grinch's small heart grew three sizes that day.
And the grinch brought the referrals back to each one
And now it is time that this journey's begun
!


Friday, November 25, 2005
All I Really Want For Christmas
WOW, I don't even know where to start!! Ok, Tonight me and my parents went to the BiLo Center to see Steven Curtis Chapman and MercyMe's Christmas Tour. It was the best concert I have ever been to!! We were only 3 rows back from the stage and had a wonderful view of the singers. SCC has a song on his new CD called "All I really want" and it talks about orphaned children and their dream of a family, so at the end of the song about 25 kids came on stage then after he was finished singing he introduced them and said that "these kids have been touched by adoption". I got cold chills, it was great. I bought a lot of stuff like a sweatshirt there too and will try to post pics of them tomorrow. As for now here are some pics we took tonight

I took this pic of him from our seat and The sign I made for concert


some of the adopted kids on stage and A lil' girl who's parents used CWA for her adoption
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Wednesday, November 23, 2005
Happy Thanksgiving!!

First let me start out by saying Happy Thanksgiving to all!!! This year I have so much to be thankful for. This time last year, Thanksgiving was split between being with my mom's family and in Charlotte with my best friend Mary, who had just been diagnosed with Leukemia. This past year I feel like I have matured as a individual and as a friend, and wanted to share some things I am thankful for:

I am Thankful for....
- God, for giving me strength to believe in miracles
-EVERYTHING God has done for me and my family
~ My Mom and Dad for helping me through the longest year of my life
- My Mom's parents and her sister
- The love I have for my best friend Mary and her family
- The thought of going to China with my parents to bring back my sister
- My friends
-My friends who are excited about Chloe
-My friends who will be at the airport to meet Chloe
- My family in Wisconsin who I love very much
- The love I have for children
- Having blog friends that are adopting from China
- The choice a mother made in China to give up her baby girl, so her child
could have a better life
- Our adoption agency (CWA) for caring enough to help lead us to Chloe
- The gift of everlasting life


Saturday, November 19, 2005
Chloe's 1st Cabbage Patch!!!
Lemme just start out by saying CHINESE CABBAGE PATCH DOLLS ARE SO FLIPPIN HARD TO FIND..at least where I live. I have been looking for months to find the perfect one for Chloe. So tonight I was in Wal-Mart and went in the toy aisle, just to make sure they didn't have any I liked.
I'll be a Son of a biscuit maker!!! There she was, a original Chinese Cabbage Patch Baby..I could hear her calling "Chloe will love me, buy me, BUY ME!!!" So I gave in and decided to buy her instead of some other things for me. So when I got to my BFF Mary's house and riped er' open, It said I could change her name, so low and behold me and Catherine got on the computer went to the My Cabbage Patch Kid Website and officially changed her name to....Sunny!! I named her Sunny because she has 3 teeth, like Sunny off of my fav movie Lemony Snicket's. So here are the pics...


I just love the outfit, hair and esp. the cute Teeth

3 teeth..perfect for biting..(see Series' movie)


Thursday, November 17, 2005
Cold Chills!!
My friend wore a shirt to school the other day that had a message that was so powerful that I just HAD to share it with my blog viewers. It is written like a letter from a child to God...
Dear God,
Why is there so much violence in schools?
Love,
Concerned Student
Dear Concerned Student,
I am NOT ALLOWED in your schools.
Love,
God
What is this world coming to?? In my opinion, by taking Prayer out of school, is like asking for the devil to come into schools and shielding God from the schools. It is getting out of control.


Tuesday, November 15, 2005
I Left My Heart In Madison
We arrived home from Wisconsin last night, sorry I have not posted yet but i've been busy tring to get caught up on all the school work I missed (from missing 2 days of school). I have to go to sleep so I don't have time to post much, that will come tomorrow. But for now I leave you with a picture or two of our long awaited visit to family in Wisconsin. A visit that came and went all too quickly..my heart is still with my Great Aunt Georgie and my family there, I LOVE YOU SO VERY MUCH!!

Cassidy and Georgie (her "Ga-ma")

"If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden."

~Author Unknown~


Wednesday, November 09, 2005
To Madison with Love
Tomorrow me, my mom and my nana are flying to Madison, Wisconsin to be with my family for a couple of days. My great aunt has Cancer and isin't doing well, so if you can please say a special prayer for her and our family. Our flight takes off from Charlotte at around 7:50, so we will be leaving the house pretty early. I will probably end up pulling an all-nighter and get some major homework done.
In case you didn't know, Chloe's full name is going to be kinda special. Her first name"Chloe" is a name my parents picked out a long time ago, before Mom lost 5 babies. We chose Madison because part of her family lives there. We have also decided Chloe will have another middle name, her Chinese name, that way she can carry apart of her heritage for the rest of her life...
Chloe Madison (Chinese Name) Jones!!!


Sunday, November 06, 2005
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
I AM CURRENTLY TRYING NEW THINGS TO SPICE UP MY SITE WITH. I KINDA LIKE THIS MULAN BACKGROUND (IF U CAN EVEN SEE IT..) I WILL BE WORKING ON IT TILL I GET IT JUST THE WAY I WANT, I HAVE NO IDEA HOW LONG THAT WILL TAKE..LOL..DO YOU LIKE THE MULAN BACKGROUND?????


Saturday, November 05, 2005
Priceless
Not adoption related but I felt the need to put it on here anyways!! Went shopping with my Dad today and we went in the infamous Abercr0mb!e & F!tch and found the PeRfEcT shirt for ME!! BTW: Yes I HAD a *cough..stupid.cough* boyfriend && we broke up...thus the shirt.......

- This A&F shirt: $24.50
- What it means to me: PRICELESS!!



Friday, November 04, 2005
Kewl
Once in a while I like to take different quizzes. I took the 100 acre quiz and check out who I am..It sounds just like me, kinda creepy!
**What character r u..I WANNA KNOW!!**

Take the 100 Acre Personality Quiz!


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