Sunday, November 29, 2009

Done With Thanksgiving.....Now On To Another "Babyless" Christmas

Well, we made it through Thanksgiving. There are some stupid rumors circulating that a couple of agencies are saying that CCAA has finished matching and should be sending referrals. WHATEVER! They didn't send them last month at all and we are still stuck on the March 28, 2006 date. No movement in over a month and here we are approaching Christmas. As mad as it makes me, then again I am just numb inside.......no feelings at all one way or the other on this issue. Of course I want our baby, but it's like my heart has shut down and won't even think about it. I did have one little moment in the Hallmark store Friday while out shopping with my sister. She had stopped to get her haircut at the salon and I went to the Hallmark store to look around. I saw the "Baby's First Christmas" ornaments and burst into tears! Yep, standing right there in the crowd of folks at the store......I had to sneak around to the empty aisle and try to gather my composure.......geez! Anyhow......that's where things stand and have stood for over a month. No news at all coming out of China except that the CCAA has a new director (which may slow things down as we wait for HIM to his act together and settled into his position.......GEEZ!). I'm just going on with life, burying myself in work, enjoying reading some books, taking a graduate class on Word Study through UVA which has me dreaming up all kinds of new projects for myself, playing my piano, singing.........

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Ladybug Quilt





Last Saturday Doug and I drove down to Halifax County, VA to go to the annual craft show. I love going to this thing every year and Doug always agrees to go with me (he's such a good sport! hahahahahaha). This year we were walking around looking at all of the handmade items and we got to this one booth and saw a handmade baby quilt with ladybugs! It is so pretty and is purple too! Oh I loved it, but I was going to pass it up, but my sweet hubby convinced me to get it because he knows how I am. If I hadn't gotten it, I would have gotten half way home and said, "I should have bought that quilt for the baby." So..........we are now the proud owners of yet another quilt for our baby Rebekah! hahahahahaha There's just something about quilts that I absolutely LOVE and this one is gorgeous! The lady that made it was just so excited about us adopting from China! She even threw in a Carebears bib and those little things that go on the newborn's hands to keep them from scratching themselves (I didn't have the heart to tell her that our baby would probably be too big for those). She even hugged me and I cried.....yep, right there in the middle of craft show! hahahahahahahahaha She teared up too! Oh well, Rebekah is going to have to get used to an overly emotional Mama! I hope she likes her ladybug quilt as much as we do and that it becomes one of her favorites! Oh, and you can see another bib that Daddy picked out for baby! I think our little girl will be spoiled rotten!