Saturday, September 26, 2009

Today Is My Birthday

Will this be the last birthday that I celebrate without our baby? Good golly I hope so! I would seriously hope that next year she will be here with us. Of course with China you just NEVER know.....hahahahahahaha
It has been a rainy birthday, but tomorrow the sun is supposed to come out. I guess you have to experience the rainy days to really appreciate the sunny ones, right? Kind of the same thing with the adoption......you have to experience the horrible, torturous, never-ending pain of the wait so that when that day comes where we are handed our precious little one, we will TRULY appreciate it! I just REALLY hope we at least get our referral before Christmas....it would be great if we traveled before then, but I will be happy to at least know who our baby is and to have that little face in my head.........something to hold on to over the holidays....oh well...what will happen will happen and nothing that I say or want will change that. Anyway....happen birthday to me, right?

Friday, September 25, 2009

STILL Waiting To Hear How Far They Got This Month.....

The rumors are still circulating around online in the adoption community that China has matched THROUGH (including) March 29th, 2006. This would be great news if we were now hearing from people WITH referrals.....what is taking them so long to release the referrals?????? Oh well.....nothing we can do but wait.
Tomorrow is my birthday.....I will be 42.....wow, I somehow thought I'd be a mom before now.......well I'm not, but hopefully it won't be much longer before I am. I was in Walmart yesterday just wasting some time and thought I'd make a visit to the baby section of the store. It was kind of comforting and reassuring to walk amongst the baby clothes, bottles, diapers, etc. and know that in a few more months I'll have a real reason to be over there in that section. I must admit though that I have NO idea what kind of bottles to buy when we get our baby.....I stood there looking at them and thinking, "Which one is the best????" I have no clue! And then I confused myself even more when I wondered over to look at the baby food.....geez, how do you know what to feed them at which time? I picked up a box of the rice cereal and thought, "What do I do with THIS??????" hahahahahahahahahahaha It sounds funny, but seriously, how do moms know WHAT to feed their babies and at what ages?????????? It confuses the heck out of me! My poor kid! Do moms just KNOW this stuff naturally or is there some great MOM GURU that they turn to?????? I'd love to hear your thoughts and "insider information" on this one! hahahahaha

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Rumors Flying Around

Well the rumors are flying around that CCAA got through March 29th and maybe even finished all of March. That would be a complete miracle and although it is exciting to think that maybe they got that far, I've learned in this horrible waiting game that you can't get your hopes up too much. So I will sit here and dream about them being true but until I OFFICIALLY see it, then I'm not going to pin too much on it happening.
We have been preparing some more around the house for the baby's arrival (eventually). We got new front-load washer and dryer set which arrived this past week. We've actually been DYING to wash laundry in the things because they are so cool! hahahahahahahahahahaha Our new sofa and ottoman should arrive on Saturday (my birthday) so it's pretty exciting getting the new stuff and doing some "nesting" as we anticipate our baby becoming a reality. I hope it will happen BEFORE Christmas!!!!!

Wednesday, September 09, 2009

Daddy-To-Be's Birthday Today 09/09/09



Cool date to have a birthday! Yep, today was Doug's birthday and he got lots of goodies. His cake was decorated with two panda bears since this will HOPEFULLY be the last one before he officially becomes a Daddy to our little Rebekah! I hope he had a great time and enjoyed his gifts. He is going to make a wonderful Daddy for Rebekah and we BOTH look forward to share holidays and birthdays with our baby girl soon. Until then, we keep plugging along and hanging on to our hopes and dreams!

Monday, September 07, 2009

FURNITURE SHOPPING! WooHoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, today was the best day! Doug and I were talking and made the decision to purchase some new furniture for our den downstairs......oh my gosh, we have been putting that off for YEARS! So we went looking at 3 different furniture stores and finally found EXACTLY what we wanted! At first we were just simply going to get a new sofa. But they had some good deals so we got a sofa and HUGE ottoman and then we went to another store and bought a rocker/recliner!!!! Woohoo! I had been wanting one before we got the baby for those nights when we have to rock her to sleep or when she's sick and won't sleep. Oh yeah......planning ahead! Oh it is sooooooooooo cozy! Our sofa is going to be a little longer than the one we have now and it is also really comfy! I LOVE the huge ottoman too! How exciting to be getting things done and getting new furniture. I think I am going to move the glider rocker that is in the den now, to the nursery and put the new cushions in it that I had made for the other rocker. I guess the other wooden rocker will also go in the den. It doesn't rock very well in the nursery because of the carpet (which I didn't think about beforehand! hahahahahaha) I also need to go through the nursery closet and take out all of my craft/scrapbooking supplies and put those away in the garage. I also need to take all of the 100 Wishes Fabric squares to the place that is going to make her quilt. LOTS of PLANS!!!!! Come on CCAA and match us with our baby!!!!!! NOW!!!!!!

Saturday, September 05, 2009

LID-iversary #41.......Still Waiting........



Well, what can I say at this point that I haven't said for the past 41 months????? There's no point griping about it.......that does no good......so let's move on......
Today Doug and I drove down to Greensboro and spent the day just browsing around down there at baby stores and then out to eat at Cracker Barrel. We bought a little denim jumper with pink flowers on it at the Osh Kosh store. Cute little things in there but I try not to buy too many clothes because we don't know what size our baby will be yet. When I do break down and buy little things I get them in 12 month or 18 months so she will hopefully be smaller and be able to grow into them one day. That little jumper was just too adorable to pass up and she can wear it with either a short sleeved or long-sleeved shirt.
Anyhow, then we went to Baby's R Us where I saw the little Pooh bear dressed up as Piglet. It was just too adorable to pass up. We also got 2 thermal receiving blankets because we have figured out that it will probably be Fall or Winter when we get her (THANK GOD it won't be the summertime!). Then we found a good sale on the onesies. They were on clearance and if you bought one pack, you got the other pack for only a dollar!!!!!! WOW! Couldn't pass that up, so I bought one pack in 12 months and the other pack in 18 months!
Overall, it has been a great day. Loved spending time with my hubby and the weather was BEAUTIFUL! We listened to music, talked, sang (well, I SANG) all the way down and back. Oh, we also stopped by this cake shop down in Greensboro and ate REALLY good cake. The place is called "Maxie-B's" and they have all these cakes and you pick the one you want to try and they cut a HUGE slice for you. I tried the Chocolate Sin cake and Doug got the strawberry cake with butter creme frosting....oh yea....FRESH strawberries in the layers.....yep, my fork traveled across the table a couple of times!!!! hahahahahahahaha