Things that make me smile... Part II

Picturing our daughter in her nursery. We had this cool mural painted for her. Her name will be painted just above the crib when we finally decide on one.

Seeing my two little kitty-koo's just barely waking up and peaking out of their box when I come home after work.

My mom-in-law and her hyperactive puppy, brandy.

Things that make me smile :)

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My cute little princess curled up on her special camping chair. She is much to prim and proper to lie on the ground like a dog :) (Her Grandpa made her this)





















Watching my cute lovebug Jake playing with his Frankie Pheasant that he got for christmas.













The yummy mini apple Pie's my wonderful husband made for me on Saturday!!!!

It's a gloomy day inside & out

Well.... news on adoptions matches was bad. Especially since so many of us had our hopes up that things were suppose to improve & we expected a higher than normal amount of matches. But, only 2 days of waiting parents got their matches this month. Congratulations to those families who have been waiting so long. That is an all time low! Funny how we expected high numbers and we got lower than low numbers. Woe is me. I'm feeling very tired of all this anticipation and yearning for our baby. We decided to adopt in August 2005. And now over 3 years later still we don't have our baby. I have this large empty space in my heart that just hurts right now. My hopes have been dashed so many times over the last 3 years, I just feel like giving up. The January winter weather isn't helping either. It has been dark & cloudy for 2 weeks. I think the sun is still up there, just haven't seen it for 2 weeks.
God - I know you have a plan... I'm not liking it it, but you have infinite wisdom and know what is best. So I pray that you help me get through this wait, show me what you are trying to accomplish in my life through this trial. Help me put my trust in you and not the ways of this world. Thank you for all the blessings in my life (my husband, my fur babies [Jake, Faith, Rocky, Sawyer], my sister, my home, my job, my family & friends) In Jesus precious name... Amen.

Trying not to get Excited!

There is rumor buzz buzzing around on the China adoption front that things are going to speed up. I've heard this so many times before that I have told myself not to get excited. Because I just get let down when it doesn't happen. But everyone is getting excited and hoping that their is going to be a large referral batch this month. It is hard to not get my hopes up when everyone else is celebrating with joyfulness & excitement. So, yes I'm caught up in it. I can hardly wait now to see what happens. China will be closed down for chinese New Year the last week of January. So we are all speculating that baby matches will happen next week!! Oh I pray for all us mommies & daddies out there that want our little babies in our arms so badly. I pray we do see some improvement in the amount of babies that are matched with parents starting this month. Their are so many orphans in china that need to be with their forever family and not living in orphanages without the love of a family. I'll keep you posted!!!

What a surprise!

China sent out matches early this month :) I wasn't even expecting to hear any news until after Jan 1st. But I had 5 minutes on my lunch break to check my e-mail and what I saw was exciting. China has finished February 06 LIDs. Yahoo, February is done and on to March 06. Which is just so close to our LID of 4/3/06. There are about 500 families that are waiting for a baby in March so I'm not sure how long it will take for China to match all those families with a baby, but I'm hoping it won't take more than 5 or 6 months. If that is the case we should expect a match in 6 or 7 months.... Oh that would be so wonderful. I just hope it isn't longer than that... we have waiting so long already. I'm so ready to see my babies tiny little face and hold her in my arms and sing to her and play games with here. I bought a mommy and me yoga video many months ago and I can't wait for us to do it together.

Christmas Party

My work christmas party was last weekend. It was SO much fun. The theme was High School prom and everyone that wanted to was encouraged to dress in prom attire. I had fun buying a this dress. The top was sparklie silver halter and a black long taffeta skirt. Don looks so sexy in his shirt & tie. Everyone looked so nice and our company gave out a ton of gifts. I got a $50 gift certificate from Macy's :) Plus we got a year book of everyone with before/after pictures. They were so much fun to look at. Us girls pretty much danced the night away to 80's tunes while the men sat and talked. It is funny how many of the husbands/boyfriends don't dig the dancing thing. Thank goodness we didn't need them to shake our groove thing!

Referrals

Well China only advanced a few days again this month. They are through 2/23/06.... Our LID of 4/3/06 seems very close to that, but it looks like our turn will still be many months away :( There are a lot of LIDs from March 2006 so I expect it to take quite a bit of time to get through those! At least we are at the beginning of April but I can't help but kick myself that I didn't move quicker when we were getting all our paperwork ready in January 2006. If I would have done things differently we may have had a March LID date and that could have shaved months off our waiting... But, alas... I can't do anything about that now, so I just must quit obsessing over it.

I am exciting about my company's upcoming Christmas Party. It is a High School Prom theme so if you want you can dress in prom attire. It will be fun to get dressed up and go out! Maybe I can pretened like I'm 18ish instead of 40ish!