Package from Home

Dear JJ,

By now you should have received a package from home. We mailed it last Friday and you should have it by now. I hope you like all the things in it. And I hope you share them with your friends there. And don't worry about bringing the toys home with you because we can always get you more when you get here.

We mailed you two shirts because we don't know your size yet. And I hope you and the nannies there will take a lot of pictures with the camera. We'll develop them once we get the camera back so we can share with you a little bit of your life there.

I hope you enjoy looking through the photo album. Daddy got a good one, didn't he? I hope you can read the labels I made in Chinese identifying your relatives. And then there is that picture book of Massachusetts so you know what thngs might look like around here.

I hope you are happy to be coming home with us, hopefully, soon. Our Chinese teacher said the other kids will be jealous when they find out about your family in America. That they will say, "Meiguo? You're going to Meiguo?". And she said the nannies will tell you that you will live in a hotel. That made me laugh. You will NOT live in a hotel.

I hope you are excited to be with us. I know it will be sad to leave your friends. But you will make new ones. And maybe one day you will be able to see them again. You never know what life will bring.

But most of all I hope you are not afraid.

I love you.
Mama