Day 27… and one week closer.
Still silent on the rumor front and have yet to hear back from our GW contact.
Other Oct 2005 friends are leaving or getting ready to. I am so very pleased for them all! Sadly, I am so swamped that I have not been able to express this to each of them individualy. I wish them all the best!
On a sad note, my friend Robin let me know this week that her Mom passed away. Her Mom had been suffering through my personal favorite, …

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Okay, I’m back! And so is RQ!! Of course, as I suspected, she is now getting ready to head to China. Oh well. Whether she is here or not, WE ARE NEXT!! (Insert giddy giggle)
Now, my topic du jour is really meant to be about American Idol. I have had to wait several days to be able to contain myself while asking the following: AMERICA— WHAT WERE YOU THINKING??!!??!!??

They sent home Sabrina and ma man SUNDANCE????? Puh-leez!!! If it didn’t seem unfair to the other contestants, …

How many more days will we wait to see P3′s angel face??? Yesterday I got pretty excited when I realized that I will see her and go to China to GET her, all with in the next 3 MONTHS!!! OH WOW!

This process has gone on much longer than anticipated and while I am still an impatient soul and would like nothing better than to have her home, oh say, yesterday!, I am okay with it all and would do it again in a heartbeat if that was the only way …

Yes, I am ready, at least mentally.;) (And late posting this)

Today let me give you a glimpse into what will occur in China. A friend of mine is in China as we speak and just picked up her angel Natalie. This is a picture back in their room on Gotcha Day.
Understandably, Amy looks much more thrilled than Natalie does. You can go to http://nestingfornatalie.blogspot.com/ to read Amy’s eloquent write-up on their adventures. They are in Guangzhou the entire time and staying at the …

I am enjoying these next few days at my Mom’s scrapbooking, away from the lights of my life. As I prepare to become the Mom ‘o 3, I am discovereing more of the things that have changed in my life since becoming a mom. Those of you just joining the “Mom” portion of lifeas well as those of you deep in the trenches will will enjoy the video below that my friend sent me. (Thanks Jamisa… you know, it does look a lot like your van…) I began rolling on …

Yes, that would be me… the peachy keen part, that is. While my heart goes out to those who have yet to receive their referrals, I gotta say that this being NEXT business is A-O.K.!! I find that I need to be a bit of a turtle though as it seems there are many who, through no fault of their own, keep trying to rain on my parade. I mean, after all of this time waiting and before the real work starts, I just want to …

Yes, you read it right. WE WILL BE IN THE NEXT BATCH OF REFERRALS!!

What does this mean? Well, Referrals will be coming out today and while we are bummed to not be included, we are THRILLED to be able to say WE ARE NEXT!!! Referrals should come out again in about a month, so early April!!!!! Wooo Hooo!!! Now I can officially give myself permission to get excited instead or guarding my heart. (insert permagrin)

What does this mean for our travel?? Well, they say you go 4-7 weeks after referral …

Well, I am so not a night person and I am officially going to give up on the nighttime posting of this countdown cuz it just is not happening. So today you get 2…15 and 16… not to mention REFERRALS!!
But for Day 15, you get these darling day brightening suprises from my Mom! P3 will be so Darling in them!! Thanks Mom!!

Have ya heard of ‘Water, water everywhere and nary a drop to drink’? That sums up the weekend and referral rumors. Ugh.
Well, we have had another good, productive weekend and accomplished several things, including a run to the dump (quite the adventure), laundry(always exciting), and helping Mom purchase both a new phone and TV (she is on a spurt of having things break;( ).

The week coming up should be filled with all sorts of adventures, so glad you are along for the ride. I said recently that now would …

And what a day it was for Ye Olde Adoption Rumour Mill!

This is where we ended up so you can see why all I can say is, “WHO KNOWS???”.

Taking the condensed rumors from RQ , making it as reliable and accurate as possible for now, we see:
It is nearly guaranteed that there is a package in the mail.

The mail may contain referrals.

The mail will likely contain TA’s.

It is rumored that 10/19 is in and 10/27 is not. Between those dates we do not know.

There is noise that matching has not …

Sooooo, what do you think of the new digs? It is still a huge work in progress but coming along. I think I’m gonna like it. As for referral news, it has started to filter in. I’d say we are at about level YELLOW… with Rumors running from referrals are imminent and will go no further than 10/23 to the have just begun the Matching process and will go at least through the rest of October. WOW! That is some spread. Needless to say, I would really like them to …

Woopsy! Got all involved in my latest project and did not even get close to posting this last night!
What was my latest project, you ask? Why, I have nothing else important to be doing so I am pimping my blog, of course! Isn’t that what we all do when we are nigh-on bored???
Bored? Ha! Me? Actually, there was a practical purpose behind it. See, Blogger has made it possible to do more drag-n-drop stuff, which should/could save time which will be at such a premium once P3 gets here. …

1) I keep creating silly little polls on my blog… even if no one responds.
2) The first thing I think of in the morning is, “I wonder if we will hear SOMETHING today?”
3) I actually get excited when people ask me about when we might hear something.
4) I keep checking RQ, even though she is not ‘home’.
5) I keep hitting refresh on RQ, even though she’s not ‘home’.
6) I have a list of things ‘to do’ to prepare to go to China and a v-e-r-y short attention span.
7) I have …

Day 8: A new week has begun!!! Woo hoo! Who knows what we will hear this week… hopefully some, very, very good rumors.
The week is starting out well enough as Mom made it home and one of the members of our Oct group just posted that their adoption is back on – YAY Nicole!!!
The cute stuff du jour are these crib shoes. Are they not THE cutest??? I did not win the Peas ones on a recent Ebay bid sadly. ;( Oh well…I’ll …

Shhhh! Can you hear the silence? It is deafening. Many people seem to think that we will hear something this week. Personally, I do not see how. I mean, yes, typically referrals would come about the first of the month. This time, however, the CCAA was off for a week. Logic to me says that will delay referrals AT LEAST a week. Hmmmm… we will see.

Meanwhile, sweet Ms. Becky read something I wrote a little bit ago and thought I could use a smile or two so she sent these …

Oops… late night last night but here we go…
Yes, five days into the new year and silence…
Ah, I miss RQ ! Hope her company appreciates the sacrifice we are making, leaving us in a veritable wasteland at an oh-so-important juncture in our lives! hehehe

So, nothing big to discuss … reasonably quiet day. My girls and I sorted thru their spring/summer clothes today so I could see what we needed. Not much, thankfully! It was pretty fun. They thought it was a giant fashion show/shopping event. Too cute.

Which got …

Yessiree, we are 4 days into the new lunar year, folks in China are still celebrating and their is nary a rumor to be had. Ugh. Of couse, that did not stop someone on our Oct group from sharing a bit of PRS (pre-referral syndrome) warped humor. Sadly, she titled her post “I Got My Referral Today!”(caution I am being warped!). The way we are all feeling these days, well, most of us saw the first part and not the second part so hopes shot through the roof! Only to …

This is a magic number here at our house as we are gonna be the ecstatic parents of 3 precious girls soon. I cannot believe we are so close at this point.
The item I wanted to share tonight is the lamp we have for P3′s room.
Shortly after we began this process, my Mom and I saw this in a Cracker Barrel restaurant. As I at that time thought I would decorate the nursery in sage and lavender, it seemed perfect, especially given the way P1 and P2 feel …

Well, here we are post 2 and I wanted to share my awesome diaper bags.
I realized yesterday that having to deal with the whole diaper bag thing is not something I have missed but in checking out my bags again, well, they make it oh so much more palatable!
When we began this adoption process, almost 2 years ago, my sweet friend Shaunna was expecting Miss Emmerson and a friend had made her this absolutely to die for diaper bag that I oohed and aahhhed over. After sweet Emme was …

How many days into the Year of the Pig will we get before seeing P3′s angel face???

Let’s find out!
So each day, while we wait I will try to post something relating to our preparations for P3. I saw something simular done last year on Christy’s blog and so enjoyed it that I thought I would try it here.
I must admit, the stress of all of this seem to be getting to me a bit as I have now aquired 2 lovely cold sores. Gotta love it! Mom is going out …

I belive I mentioned we were having done as a Christmas gift from my Mom. Well, here you go…before and after pics. I LOVE the new color and so does the rest of my family (yay!!!). In case you are interested, it is Cherry Cobbler by Behr. Still need some window treatments but otherwise, pretty much what you see is it for now.
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Recently Mom and I took the girls to see, yep, you guessed it, Charlotte’s Web. They were mesmerized. Seriously, they both made it thru almost the entire movie without budging.
The movie was very well done, I must say. They stayed true to the original story which was great. They had big name stars doing the voices but you went largely unaware of them as you just enjoyed watching the story unfold. The cinematography was also well done. It was so fun …

1. How do you catch a unique rabbit?

Unique Up On It.

2. How Do You Catch a Tame Rabbit?

Tame Way, Unique Up On It.

3. How Do Crazy People Go Through The Forest?

They Take The Psycho Path

4. How Do You Get Holy Water?

You Boil The Hell Out Of It.

5. What Do Fish Say When They Hit a Concrete Wall?

Dam!

6. What Do Eskimos Get From Sitting On The Ice too Long?

Polaroids

7. What Do You Call a Boomerang That Doesn’t work?

A Stick

8. What Do You Call Cheese That Isn’t …

A South Dakota farm wife called the local phone company to report her phone failed to ring when her friends called- and that on the few occasions when it did ring, her dog always moaned right before the phone rang.

The telephone repairman proceeded to the scene, curious to see this psychic dog or senile lady. He climbed a telephone pole, hooked in his test set, and dialed the subscriber’s house.

The phone didn’t ring right away, but then the dog moaned and the telephone began to …

Okay gang, thanks to our good friend Rumor Queen, here is what we are dealing with. As a rule, I usually focus on the mid-range guess which would mean we would miss the cut-off next month by 1 day. Humph. While I do not want to wait any longer than absolutely necessary, the largest benefit to that is we would absolutely be a shoe-in for April. Also, we would not have any holidays to delay our travel so it would not be all bad.
That being said, I am still …

Last week we had some extremes in weather so when we had beautiful weather one evening, we headed over to the neighborhood park and had a really good time.
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And even better, OCTOBER referrals are here!!! Woooooohoooo!! These families have become some of my very best friends, supporters and confidants throughout this long wait. I could not be happier for them all!!! And such CUTE babies!!! Take a peek!1)Born in Our Hearts ~ Li Ke, 14 mos, Inner Mongolia!
2)Nesting for Natalie ~ Lei Jin Yuan, 18 mos, Guangdong
3)Hannah ~ Xiao Wei Feng, 8 mos, Jiangxi
4)Baby Bella ~ Lei Jin Lu, 13 mos, Guangdong
5)Bringing Home Baby K ~ Xiu Su Jun, 8mos, Chongqing Municipality
6)Journey to Katie Mei ~ Gang Xia …

He is AIRBORNE…… ETA Thursday or Friday, 2/1 or 2/2

Now, if we can just find out what the cut off is….. a nice lengthy one please, with a cherry on top!

For all of my good friends waiting for the stork, wondering if they have made the right life-altering, mindblowing, wonderful decision.

We are sitting at lunch one day when my daughter casually mentions that she and her husband are thinkingof starting a family. “We’re taking a survey,” she says half-joking. “Do you think I should adopt a baby?”
“It will change your life,” I say, carefully keeping mytone neutral. “I know,” she says, “no more sleeping in on weekends, no more spontaneous vacations.”
But that is not what I meant at all.I …

While we wait for more news on referrals, I have been pondering few things like ~

Why do we press harder on a remote control when we know the batteries are getting dead?

Why do banks charge a fee on “insufficient funds” when they know there is not enough money?

Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars, but check when you say the paint is wet?

Why doesn’t glue stick to the bottle?

Why do they use sterilized needles for death by lethal injection?

Why doesn’t …

Well it is that time of the month where rumors abound. Adoption referral rumors, that is.

Some state that referrals should arrive next week(likely) but some state not until 2nd week of February.

Some say the LID’s may only go thru 10/9 while others state they could go as far as 10/17 or 18! Wow! Wouldn’t that be nice. Myself, I figure about 10/11. Anything more and I will be happily suprised.

What does that do for us? Well, the further they …

Yes, this is how I feel at this point. Serious bad hair days, all in a row!

See, I am just OVER this whole waiting thing. I am tired of having my and my family’s life on perrenial hold while we ‘wait’ for P3. Just when I get excited and hopeful as we are considerably closer than we have been, someone or something rains on my little parade! I want to MAKE airplane reservations instead of reading about them. I want to …

Do you think that if we leave out some crumbs, the stork will fly faster?

In January 2009, Hillary Clinton gets elected President and is spending her first night in the White House.
She has waited so long……

The ghost of George Washington appears, and Hillary says, “How can I best serve my country?”Washington says, “Never tell a lie.”“Ouch!” Says Hillary, “I don’t know about that.”

The next night, the ghost of Thomas Jefferson appears…Hillary says, “How can I best serve my country?”Jefferson says, “Listen to the people.”
“Ohhh! I really don’t want to do that.”

On the third night, the ghost of Abe Lincoln appears…Hillary says, “How can …

Wishing and wanting to see you,
I step on thin ice.
- Madoka Mayuzumi

It is a wet, wintery wonderland outside. We have been watching and enjoying it all weekend. We are safe and warm but know there are many who are not. May they find shelter and warmth.

This test is based on how cool you were in High School–what crowd you ran with, etc., but it’s still pretty accurate. You may want to send it to your friends to see if they’ve changed.

SEE IF YOU ARE A STILL A COOL PERSON:http://www.elks590.org/main/cooltest.htm

Don’t you just love people who ‘get’ it??? I know I do. I have been given several wonderful gifts lately and want to share. The necklace above was a Christmas gift from my wonderful Mom… just lke my 3 P’s. How sweet is that? This blessing dress is MY blessing dress. Mom forgot about it and I don’t remember knowing about it but I am so thrilled to have it now. Who knows, maybe P3 can even wear it. This too was a Christmas …

I’ve been tagged by Deb who just got her referral and is oh, so fun!
A – Available or Taken: TakenB – Best Friend: My Hubby….mostly C – Cake or Pie: PIE! yummmmyD – Drink of Choice: Water, Braum’s Milk, & Diet Coke…w/ fresh LimeE – Essential Item You Use Everyday: My ComputerF – Favorite Color: PlumG – Gummy Bears or Worms: Gummy Bears…from GermanyH – Hometown: AnnaI – Indulgence: Chausson de Pomme from LaMadeline & Jamisa & Shaunna’s ToffeeJ – January or February: February – I **could** get my …

…. Sorry…. back now.
I alluded to the fact that the referrals that just arrived were not quite as good as we had hoped. We really wanted them to go thru 9/29/05 as there are a significant number of families logged in on that date. Oh well, tis not to be. Therefore, we shall, once again, re-adjust.
Over on the RQ she has estimated the following:

soooooooo at best we would still get our referral for Valentine’s as last hoped….not likely. Next best guess is for St Patrick’s day in …

Referrals are coming!! Referrals are coming!!!
Yay!!!! Happy, Happy NEW YEAR!!

AND JUST WHERE IS THAT STORK????????

Yes! My new computer arrived Thursday, safe and sound. As you can imagine, I am busy, busy, busy this time of year so I am squeezing in a little time here and there, trying to get acquainted with my new computer and get it all set up. Brett is still retrieving what files he can from my previous computer so I still have a little hope of some of it being available. Now, to just get caught up…. Wish me luck!

Well, I am still alive and we are rolling along with our Christmas preparations.

The tree is up both at home and Grammie’s, the halls are decked, the gifts are bought and in the process of being made, the letter is written and in the process of being made ready to mail, the girls are excited and Santa is scheduled to visit.

Wish the Daddy luck as he has his big progamming package due at work today. Fingers, toes, eyes, and everything else crossed that it will roll out smoothly!

P2′s …

I am almost beside myself….. for some unknown technical reason, my laptop decided to eat, yes EAT the pointer which allows Windows to find my files.
The RESULT??? Every single one of my files are GONE! HASTA LA BYE-BYE! UNAVAILABLE to ME!!
Pictures, graphics, memos, lists, information gathered over 5 years plus, emails, spreadsheets, passwords and more.
ALL GONE.
Yes, we do backup occasionally and I can access some of my stuff from that most likely but it takes time and until I am comfortable that this will not …

Most of you are probably aware that I am a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (also known as Mormon). I strongly believe in exercising our right as Americans to vote and I am looking forward, trying to find the best possible candidate to vote for for President in 2008.

Recently, a friend sent a link to me for MSNBC and a poll they are running regarding voting for Mitt Romney, who just happens to be a member of my church. If you are not familiar with …

Well some of the families have had phone calls, some have names and info, some have pictures and some have nothing! I will update as they come through!
As I said before, I love seeing their precious little faces and thought you might too so here are as many links as I could find… still all for you.:)
1)Bringing Home Olivia – Hai Xiao Shan, 9 mo.s, Guangdong2)Waiting for Arden – Feng Ke Yun, 9 mo.s, Jiangxi (music)3)Bringing Kennedy Home – Kennedy Clow, 8 mo.s, Jiangxi4)Linda and Danny – Zeno, , …

Referrals are coming!!!!

Referrals are coming!!!!
Referrals through SEPTEMBER 8th 2005!! (Sept IS the month before October – OUR MONTH, after all!)

Congrats to our Newfie friend Deb as she is included!!!! Woohooo!! The first NSN referral of our October 2005 group!!!
More info as it arrives!

Stay tuned for more information as it comes through!!!

Okay, you have just got to see this….
http://www.julydragonflies.com/FengCheng/HKClub.htm
How cute are they????

You may have all seen this but I found it hysterical. Hmmm, must be because I was SURE my Mother DID know everything for a very, very long time. Love ya Mom. Now come home.
HAVING MOM OVER FOR DINNER
Brian invited his mother over for dinner. During the course of the meal, Brian’s mother couldn’t help but keep noticing how beautiful Brian’s roommate, Stephanie, was. Brian’s Mom had long been suspicious of a relationship between Brian and Stephanie, and this had only made her more curious.
Over the course of the …