03.09.09
Stuff
I’ve been such a bad blogger lately. Guess my mind has been elsewhere. 
I’ve been working on updating our home study so we can get our I-797 renewed. The thing is, it expires June 12. Our Visa appointment is tentatively scheduled for June 5. We could wait and see if we pass court on May 12, but if for some reason we don’t we wouldn’t be able to travel on our expired I-797 if court gets rescheduled. With the way the courts have been lately in ET, there’s no way I’m going to risk it. It didn’t take me long to decide to renew it. I WAS NOT going to risk being able to pick up our little guy!! He’s already waited too long and so have we!
Speaking of updating our home study…it’s a major pain in the ass, but I think my biggest complaint about having to do everything again is since February 6 we’ve had to get fingerprinted three times!! The first time was to get an extension on our I-797 fingerprints for immigration, the second was for GBI (state record check), and third was for the FBI! Come on people, there’s got to be a better way! Our fingerprints haven’t changed since the first time we did them 15 months ago! Okay, done venting.
Our blogger friends, Steve and Aimee, just got back from Ethiopia with their beautiful daughter, Sophia. She is a cutie! They were kind enough to take pictures of our beautiful boy for us! I have never been so impatient to see pictures in my entire life! He looks so well taken care of. His little cheeks have filled out. Aimee says he’s still very tiny, but that’s okay. We can’t wait to get him home and fatten him up.
I’m feeling slightly overwhelmed with all the travel arrangements we need to make. I haven’t even started yet! There’s a large group set to travel at the same time we do, so staying at the HOH is pretty much out of the question. We’ll need to make reservations at one of the nearby guest houses. I’ve been buying our travel supplies for a while now. Everytime I go to the store, I buy something else, so we’re pretty set as far as that goes. The nursery, not so much. We have the furniture and crib, but I haven’t done much else decorating-wise. I’ve been meaning to paint, but I’ve just been flat-out procrastinating on that one. I hate painting! The rest, I just can’t decide what I want to do in there. I feel like I’m running out of time.
Since I don’t have our little guy to photograph yet, here are a few of my current subjects:
12.07.08
All is quiet
All is quiet on the adoption front right now. I think things are slowing down for the holidays. Our agency is going to be closed for two weeks in December for the holidays and won’t be giving out any referrals they receive during that time until after the New Year. So, looks like it’s going to be a quiet month.
I’ve been sick all week with a sinus infection (it’s that time of year). I’m finally starting to feel human again, so yesterday I dug out the Christmas tree and had it up and decorated in two hours! That’s a record! Thank goodness for fake trees. Today was baking day. I made goodies for all our neighbors and Owen’s fellow teachers and my patient’s at work. I think they’ll all appreciate the Knock You Naked Brownies I made. That’s what they’re called and they taste as sinfully delicious as they sound (thanks for the recipe Tich!). How can you go wrong with chocolate, caramel and pecans? You can’t.
I have been feeling decidedly hopeful these last few weeks. I’m not sure what’s gotten into me. All I know is that I’m really at peace with everything that’s going on with our adoption. We’ve been waiting a long time, and I know we have a few more months to go, but miraculously, it’s not getting me down. Maybe it’s because we’re so close. Maybe it’s because I’ve finally figured out that I can’t control this whole thing and I’ve finally decided to just let go and see what happens. Wow! Me, let go. That doesn’t happen very often.
I’m feeling so positive about the future too. I know once our baby is here, things are going to change in a big way. I’m not sure what those changes are going to entail, but I’m feeling ready for whatever comes. It just feels good to wake up every morning with a positive, hopeful attitude. It makes dealing with life and all it throws at you a lot easier to handle.
