So how should we share the exciting news with our parents?! Turns out, as I'm concocting clever plans, I learn that Eric has already told his parents. Huh?? How did I get to be the patient one, honey?? When did you become the excitable one?? ;-)
Every time we've adopted, we announced the news in a different way, so I needed a new idea. I scanned the internet and scanned my scrapbook supplies and gradually an idea began to form for sharing the news with my mom and dad. I found a few stickers and bright post-it notes and here's what I came up with:
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| I purchased a map of the world gift bag and a map of the Caribbean. I labeled the bag with a card with colors in the Haitian flag... |
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| My dad loves maps, so I sent them on a super easy hunt for the star... |
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| ...located where W. lives... |
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| This bag contained a small and suspiciously empty picture frame... |
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| The next bag-- 2 (children we have now) + 1= |
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| Open the paper to find a sonogram of Haiti... |
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| Drumroll please...Photos of W.!! |
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| A note clipped to the back of the photos. A teaser-- Mom and Dad, you have to call us to get the story... :) |
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| A photo collage of some of my favorite photos of W. |
How did it all turn out?
I asked a friend to help me carry out my scheme. I put everything inside the gift bag, then the gift bag into a brown paper shopping bag. I wanted the surprise to look innocuous. We drove to my parents house and used my key to sneak in. Where to leave the bag?? Ah ha! On the kitchen counter where the bag wouldn't seem immediately out of place, until they remembered they hadn't shopped at Earth Fare that day! Ha!
That night Eric and I expected a call. Waited. Never came. Hmmm. Could they seriously have missed the package??
We did eventually have that exciting talk with them, at 12:30pm the next day! Turns out they didn't discover the package until late the previous night!! ;-)
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