{"id":64,"date":"2006-10-26T10:50:26","date_gmt":"2006-10-26T14:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.handsful.com\/?p=64"},"modified":"2013-11-30T18:13:41","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T23:13:41","slug":"secret-pals-are-the-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/archives\/64","title":{"rendered":"Secret Pals are the Best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have no idea how long we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be waiting for our referral from China. We hope to meet Lainey in 2007, but it could even be 2008. So, to help us endure the looonng wait, we have Secret Pals. Let me explain\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>I belong to two online Yahoo groups made up of other ladies also awaiting a referral from China. The groups are arranged by the date that your adoption paperwork went to China\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6so we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re essentially all in the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153same slow boat to China\u00e2\u20ac\u009d together! One of my groups is the July Fireflies. This group is made up of ladies across all adoption agencies, and there are members from all across the US and beyond (Canada, the Netherlands, Australia, etc.). The other group is called June-July CCAI. This group is for only those moms within our agency, Chinese Children Adoption International. As you can tell, both groups are for those whose paperwork arrived in China in July.<\/p>\n<p>Each group has come up with activities to make our waits more enjoyable AND to help us to get to know each other. There is a good chance that some of us will be traveling together to China, because travel groups are made up of those with close LID dates. Both groups are doing a Secret Pal gift exchange each month. So, after all that explanation, here are pictures of the Secret Pal presents I received from both groups in October!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/im1.shutterfly.com\/procserv\/47b6ce07b3127cce8e595dbfbf0100000025118AYt2bRu1cs8\" align=\"top\" \/><\/p>\n<p>June\/July CCAI group\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6books theme<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/im1.shutterfly.com\/procserv\/47b6ce07b3127cce8e595c567e4000000016108AYt2bRu1cs8\" width=\"421\" height=\"269\" align=\"top\" \/><\/p>\n<p>July Fireflies group\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6bathtime theme<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have no idea how long we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be waiting for our referral from China. We hope to meet Lainey in 2007, but it could even be 2008. So, to help us endure the looonng wait, we have Secret Pals. Let me explain\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I belong to two online Yahoo groups made up of other ladies also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adoption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}