Congratulations, Tim. Sounds like a double Thanksgiving blessing for your family. Best wishes. Pat Rowe Stone ----- Original Message ----- From: "Timothy Stowell" <tstowell@chattanooga.net> To: <nychenan@rootsweb.com>; <nycortla@rootsweb.com>; <nymadiso@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2009 1:20 AM Subject: [NYCHENAN] Thanksgiving > Hi folks, it's been a while since I've posted. > > I've been working seeking to find different housing for my parents, > had another round with the doctor and hideous medication for a sinus > infection. > > Still at this time of year, I am thankful for many things. I have > been blessed beyond measure being the father of our daughter whom we > adopted in March, 2008. Tian turns 10 in just a few days. > > I've tried to be subtle about this but few seemed to grasp what I was > saying, so here it is in plain English: > > This Thanksgiving Day, I am thankful that some time early next year, > we'll be adding a son to our family. He will be 8 in January and we > are excited to welcome him home from Taiwan. > > http://home.highertech.net/~tstowell/yu-hsuan.htm > > We got to meet him via Skype a couple of weeks ago and will visit > with him again in early December. I captured about 4 minutes of > video from the first call. He speaks no English. He speaks the same > language our daughter did, but she's lost most of that. > > Thus in a roundabout way, another branch is grafted into our tree, > whose heritage will now by proxy trace back into central New York state. > > May you find Thanksgiving a time of gathering, a time of remembering > and a time of thankfulness for the many blessings in your life today. > > Tim Stowell > Chattanooga > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYCHENAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message