Isn’t he just gorgeous!?! My sister, Andrea, and her husband Bob are hoping to bring him home this summer. She just received these new pictures from an incredibly kind family that travelled to their son’s orphanage in February. His name is Dane Xiaoyu and he is 2 1/2 years old and we can’t wait to welcome him into our family…. Read More
Sisters sharing Cheerios
The other evening Isabelle was being too quiet. So I started to search for her and found her sitting on her sister’s lap, sharing a bowl of Cheerios. You’d think the kid had never eaten the way she was going after these Cheerios! I think they went through three bowls (plus a lot of milk) before Isabelle decided she was… Read More
FINALLY!
We got the good word from our agency this morning … we’ve been logged in! It was with mixed emotions that I read our LID is 3/2. A little bummed that it took almost an entire month to get logged in at the CCAA, but resplendently happy that we’re ‘in’! We’re officially in line, the CCAA knows we’re doing all… Read More
Six months
Yesterday marked six months that we have been pursuing our precious Sophie. In a way it feels like much longer, I can’t seem to remember a time that we didn’t think about her and pray for her daily. But it also seems like yesterday that I was sitting at my computer when I opened up the email from Lifeline, the… Read More
A little retail therapy
Okay, I still have not heard anything on our LID. I keep telling myself that doesn’t mean nothing is happening, just that I don’t know about it. I just want to know when we can start counting the days, anticipating our TA in roughly 60-90 days from LID. But for right now I am cluelessly floating around in the obscurity… Read More
I’m a proud momma
I am so proud of my biggest girl, Tori. She was inducted into the National Honor Society the other night. I have always heard such horror stories about teens and I waited and waited for her to hit that miserably difficult stage. Well, I’m still waiting and she’s a wonderful kid. And smart. And loving. And beautiful…
It was a park kinda day
The high was 75 the other day and there was no way I wasn’t going to do something to get my kids outside to enjoy the weather. I called my friend Terri and we met up for lunch and a trip to the local park. I even grabbed Asher out of a grueling day of kindergarten to join us. Seemed… Read More
Check out these curls
Over the 7 months between the time we decided to adopt and actually saw Isabelle’s face for the first time, I spent many moments imagining what our future daughter would look like. Would she have dark, caramel colored skin, or would it be more fair? Would her eyes be single lidded or double lidded? Would her hair be so black… Read More
Another care package marks another month
I mailed out Sophie’s fourth care package on Thursday. The first one was mailed right after we received our pre approval and I have had the best time collecting goodies to send to her, her friends at the SWI and the nannies. We also mailed out a big box of blankets, hats, mittens and cleft nursers after we heard that… Read More
So what if the groundhog saw his shadow…
We’re ready for spring! It was warm enough today to get outside for a while, one of Isabelle’s favorite activities. She hasn’t been out much at all this winter because I was worried about her getting sick pre-surgery, and then it was a few more weeks post surgery recuperation time. Now she’s ready to go! She was happy to be… Read More