This is for the Designer Spotlight Challenge with Taylormade Designs.
It's too much journaling to translate word for word, but it is about our last Christmas as a childless couple. We had started our adoption process in July 2002. At the beginning of the wait, we hadn't expected to travel to China until June 2004, however, the referral process had been speeding up for the latter half of 2003, ever since China opened up again after the SARS scare.
For a long while I didn't allow myself to hope for an earlier referral, but at the beginning of November 2003, we were NEXT in line and my hopes were up for a December referral - and a photo of my baby for Christmas. Then December came - and China sent no referral information that month. What a huge disappointment! It took me a while to get over it and realize that it would be best to just enjoy Christmas - after all, the wait was only extended for one month. So we bought our future baby a huge teddybear, my brother gave her a couple of soft dogs and both my mom and my MIL bought a couple of baby books. We put all of these things on a chair beside our Christmas tree - after all, it was our baby's first Christmas, even though she wasn't there to enjoy it with us.
I used Holliewood Designs & Paint the Moon Designs new kit. Christmas Magic and Taylormade's For The Record Template
