Happy Holidays!

Thought that the blog needed some holiday cheer this time of year! Hope you like the changes and the festive music! We are quickly approaching Christmas this year and for us it will be bittersweet. We of course are thrilled to be able to spend time with our family and friends and the time will go so quickly, but in our heart we are still sad because a member of our family wont be able to be with us this year! However, I did hear from Vickie again today and our entire dossier (with the execption of the immigration approval) has been sent to the secretary of state to be authenticated. and as soon as that is approved (appx 2 weeks) it will be sent to the Chinese consulate to be authenticated as well. We will then have to repeat the process with the immigration approval, but our documents cant be over 6 months old and since we began our "paperchase" the end of July we are running out of time and would have to get more recent copies of everything.(not really what we want to do :-)

I also contacted immigration this week and found out that our fingerprints have passed. There isnt an officer assigned to our case yet, but the agent I spoke with said "plan on 90 days but more than likely it will be less" That is great if it is true...we will see. We are on day 50 today so over the half way mark

We have had great success with the cookbooks so far. Most of the original batch have sold and we are going to order more! We are excited since every little bit helps.
ALSO....
Last call for ornaments...I have a few left here still to sell to anyone who would like some just email me or leave a comment.

Anyone else have ideas on fundraisers that would be effective. This is all new to me so any advice would be great, just leave me a comment. I figure the more help the better!!
Happy Holidays to all of you