I have had a lot less time to do anything last week than I originally anticipated. All week last week I attended seminars for work. Show up, sit, drink lots of coffee, listen to speakers, keep going to the bathroom because I don’t agree with what they’re saying and don’t want to listen, go home, sleep and start [...]
Bags are packed.
Not my bags. My baby’s bags. MY BABY. Chloe is leaving early tomorrow morning with her grandparents to stay with her great-grandparents for a week. I’m having a really hard time letting go - without going *insane* and so I can’t sleep.
I thought I would recap some questions that came up in comments [...]
My daughter’s very first school concert is in a few hours. . . . so why am I the one who’s a bundle of nerves? There will be pictures hopefully within a couple of days.
My mom used to tell me that I had itchy fingers because I couldn’t just sit and do nothing. I would have to be doing something. Chloe reminds me of that all the time now. This is before, before when she could sit still long enough for me to actually take a picture of her:
I [...]
4 weeks old; moving in with us July 2008; currently living with her mommy and 3 siblings
The two things required by our agency that we create ourselves to give an expectant mother an idea of who we are is a letter and a website. Our letter was available for distribution beginning this past Monday. Our website is “going live” today. Going live just means that on my agency’s website our picture [...]
June 11, 2008. Monrovia, CA. Seriously.
I wanted to celebrate being “in the books” so I bought myself/our future baby (*who, for now, will be Baby M - because I hope he/she will be born this year, the year of the Mouse*) a brand new boppy. I LOVE the boppy. My chest isn’t really made to be able to just hold a baby and [...]
for the time being.
I thought I would take a short break from my bloggy break to explain what goes on now. One of the things I was frustrated with domestic adoption is that there are a lot of things that are agency specific and a lot of agencies do things differently. This is [...]
Writing, Editing, and Design. Five months.
Printing. Three weeks.
One much anticipated approval letter. Today.
100 letters leaving. Tomorrow.
Originally thinking it would only take 3 months - max. Want to kick myself.
