Sent With Love!

Sunday afternoon and missing your girl all the way around the globe.  What's a mom to do?

Care package, of course!  And when it ends up bringing photos and an email detailing her loveliness, we call that priceless.

Here's what we sent!

The bright green pajamas featuring POLKA DOTS (no way! how great is that KTG and Jenn Jenn) are a donation for the littles in the orphanage.  The cookies are for her caregivers and teachers.  The pink jacket with hearts and stars is for Emma Kate, and I think she'll know we think she's a star and we love her each time she looks at her jacket/sweatshirt. :)  And the camera is for us.

Here is the letter we wrote:

Dearest YuXiao,

Hello and Happy New year, our dear daughter.  We miss you and hope you celebrated a wonderful New Year’s with your friends and caregivers.

This care package is for you and your friends you live with at Jinjiang.   We hope you enjoy some new pajamas to snuggle up with at night.  And we also hope your caregivers and teachers enjoy a sweet treat with the enclosed cookies.  Thank you to each of them for taking such careful care of you.  We are so grateful.  The warm jacket is for you to wear as the weather changes from winter to spring.  We hope it makes you happy and when you put it on it reminds us of you.

We hope that we are able to see some pictures of you and your life from the camera that is in this package.  It is hard to want to be with you and know you and love you, and also be so far away from you! 

We think of you every single day, Yu Xiao.  Each morning we pray for your day and each night your sister and brothers pray for your sleep.  Daddy and I talk about you all the time.  Cooper and Jeb are coming with us to China to meet you when we come.  They are your oldest brothers.  Luke and Anna are too little to come and are going to wait at home with your Grandparents.  Everyone here loves you so much already. 

Waiting to meet you is hard.  It must feel strange to you, too.   We know, though, that God is knitting our hearts together even though we are living far apart right now.  We promise to be so kind, loving and gentle with you.  We promise to take care of you forever and love you as our beloved, long-awaited youngest daughter. 

You are so beautiful to us, YuXiao.  Every time we look at your pictures we smile.  And we look at your pictures every day!

We love you,

Mom and Dad

Sara and Jim Silburn

Praying God delights her with this package, and blesses not only her but her caregivers, teachers and friends in Jinjiang with the contents.  

Love,

Sara