are we there yet?

Still waiting, no updates. I need to get use to the idea of waiting until after Tet to travel. There is nothing I can do to make this change. So there it is, not I need to soak in it for a bit.

Last night I paid the deposit for daycare. I thought it was going to be a quick drop in and leave a check, I was there for 1 hour! It was really nice they gave me another tour, made a list of things I need to bring and answered a lot of questions. I was really happy to see there was even more diversity in the children then I had seen in our first visit. All the kiddos are so cute!

Since we are first time parents we are new to the whole parenthood club, and let me tell you I feel like an outsider. I seem to be clueless and a bunch of things and think everyone we meet knows we don't have kids yet, so automatic disassociation. I'm sure we will get past this initiation period and join the rest of you in parenthood bliss. I also hope it will be easier to meet people wants we are in the parenthood club.

new image, yea or nay?

OK, I must be really bored. I haven't really like the image I have been using for my profile, so I messed around a bit and came up with this:




so, what do you think yea or nay?

Did you notice? Look a little closer, to the right. 2 months down, yes we survived 2 months of waiting to travel. I don't know how we did, some days where easier than others. And now as we get a little closer it gets harder and harder. We have gotten no updates on our paperwork or travel news. I'm hoping we are closer but you can never tell. Some families from our agency got travel news with only 9 days notice to travel! That's really hard to prepare in 9 days! wow. I also think as we get closer and closer to Tet the airfare and flights will get more expensive and harder to find.

Rachel's family got provincial approval this week, yea!! So, if you haven't go congratulate them. It's really great to see families progress, what an amazing process.

Over the weekend my husband and I where very busy, we tiled the bathroom shower, almost done with the tile on the floor, picked up, put some items for sale on craigslist and my favorite picked out some clothes for our baby for when we travel. I know, I know the excitement never ends at our house, watch out! :)

post holiday wrap

We had a nice quite Christmas. Made some cookies, played games and had yummy dinner. My husband and I don't live close to family so it was just the two of us. Next year we will have a 16month old around so I'm sure our house won't be quite!

Favorite gift, ice cream maker. I love ice cream so this should be lots of fun. I also got a cookbook full of neat recipes. I'm sure it will come in handing during the summer.

I think my cold politely waited until after the Christmas cheer was over wipe me out. Last night I got it. So today I have a pretty bad cold. I'm hoping it will pass quickly.

On the adoption front, no news other than 'we hope a lot of families will travel in January' my husband said it means nothing. I'm hoping it means us! Cross your fingers :)

Merry Christmas

I hope everyone has a merry Christmas. It has been an amazing year and I’m grateful for the progress we have made in our journey to add to our family. I’m also grateful for the friends and the families who share their journey online with me, it helps to know there are others out there who have or are going through the same ups and downs along the way.

Now, go eat some Christmas cookies, throw on some Christmas music and snuggle up with your favorite loved one.  Have a good one!

darkness all around

Weekend progress? Nothing Notta Zero. Thursday night we lost power and it stayed off until Sunday night at 11:00 just im time to go back to work. We where lucky because we have a firerplace and our house didn’t have any damage from the storm. There are trees down everywhere. All the roads that I take to work are detoured because of fallin trees. So, one weekend down and one weekend closer to christmas, yikes! Oh, I forgot we but christmas lights while the power was out  I didn’t want to just sit there doing nothing. I think my neighboors thought we where crazy, we got some strange looks as they drove by. hehe

The waiting for TA is getting harder and harder, I feel like whining, throwing myself on the floor or anything else that might help the situation. The problem is nothing helps. We like all of you will just sit here and wait for the phone call that will allow us to get our daughter.