Waiting families dinner

Last night I attended my first FCC (Families of Children from China) Waiting Families dinner. This is a monthly get together of Arizona families that are somewhere in the adoption process for China. I met a number of people- all very nice. Hopefully, I'll see them again at another dinner and hopefully, there will be nametags at that dinner since I am the absolute worst at remembering names - a trait I'm sure I inherited from my mother.

Since yesterday was National Adoption Day, our group leader, Maria, handed out the following poem:

The Daughters of China, Tim Chauvin
There's an unseen tie that binds them,
A red thread that will not break.
They are woven in a tapestry
It took five thousand years to make.

Their eyes are wide with wonder
Tiny hands reach out to touch
The faces of the families
Who have wanted them so much.

The daughters of China, they fly across the seas,
Off to unseen places and possibilities.
They are gifts to those who cherish them
By those who just could not.
Acts of hope and faith and love
That we never will forget.

They were given up for reasons
That most will never know.
Now they're daughters to the families
Who have come to take them home.

And someday they'll too be mothers
And have children and a home.
Thread by thread they will tie the knots
To weave new tapestries all their own.

The daughters of China, they fly across the seas,
Off to unseen places and possibilities.
They are gifts to those who cherish them
By those who just could not.
Acts of hope and faith and love
That we never will forget.