I'm in Love

Someday (soon) I hope I'll be saying that about my new baby, but until such time, I shop. As I did the other day. For shoes. (Q being in preschool for almost 4 hours on Thursday may be a dangerous thing!) These Rocket Dogs weren't "on the list", but somehow they just leapt right out at me. And I bought them (am low on will-power right now). I love them. They are so comfy. I highly recommend them. I have them in a different color (navy and grey) than shown, but you get the idea. I love Rocket Dogs! I put them on, wiggle my toes, and think about walking all over China.

Have shoes, will travel.

Must be an A-Parent Thing

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Who else would get excited about seeing this in the return address portion of a piece of US Mail?

Adoptive parents, that's who.....adoptive parents who are waiting on their federal fingerprint clearances. Again. Yup, we had to be refingerprinted. Apparently our first set expired. We, on the other hand, have not. ;-) You know, we are not "expired", dead, deep sixed.

Anyway, according to the US Government, fingerprints such as these for such purposes are only good for 15 months. And since this process has now been much longer than that, we had to get fingerprinted all over again. In this electronic day and age, you'd think the government could just rerun the first set to see if we've committed any awful crimes in the last year or so, but no. No can do. So, we are another $140 lighter, but we still are in good graces with the gov't as far as our adoption paperwork goes. Now if only those referrals would arrive in as speedy a manner as our fingerprint approvals did. (Thank you, Indy USCIS!)

Fifteen Days

The next referral batch from CCAA is on its way. And it includes through August 9. That means 15 days of LIDs before they get to our LID. Soooooooo, maybe - just maybe - we get to see munchkin's face next month. They did an 18-day batch this time. But the time before that was only 9 days worth. Unpredictable. And really, it has been unpredictable for about the last year. So who knows what's next? While we continue to wait, we will keep thinking positive thoughts and we will be enjoying looking at the smiling faces of all the families who were matched this time around. A lot more babies are going to be meeting their parents soon. And that's a very good thing.
Here's to hoping that it will be our turn next!

Best of....

The best of today, in no particular order.....
1. Hanging out with friends: Met 2 of my best friends from college at a super great mall. Had a fabulous time - gabbing, eating, shopping, gabbing, etc. We met at a "middle location" since we live about 5 or 6 hours apart. We hadn't seen each other in a couple of years and I am happy to report that we all look as fabulous as we did when we graduated from college!
2. Homecoming: When I returned home, after being gone about 12 hours, my son greeted my like a rock star! Squealing, hugs, kisses, the works. It was wonderful.
3. My Guys: When I walked in the door, there was a sight to behold: my 2 boys (i.e., Q + hubby), sitting at the bar, little TV tuned to football, eating Doritos and PB&J sandwiches, in their Marvin jerseys. What's not to love about that? A little guy time today seemed to be a good thing for them both.
4. Football: Colts won!
5. Adoption "News": Rumor has it that the next batch of referrals should arrive at agencies beginning tomorrow! I don't expect us to be included, but I am really curious about the cut-off this month. If the CCAA matches into mid-August, we have a decent chance of seeing our munchkin's face next month! Yippee!! The farther they get into August, the better (obviously!). If they don't even finish matching the July families....well, I don't even want to think about that.
6. Treats: Had some Graeter's ice cream this afternoon at above-mentioned mall........YUM!

Sunday, Sunday....

Well, another couple of weeks have passed since the last post....and the wait continues. I'm going to attempt to post a picture with this post, to see if I know what I'm doing (ha!), and to get some practice in for when we go to China. Of course, at the current rate, I should have plenty of time to practice before I need to use my skills in China.
At any rate, the posted photo is the sunshiny (sonshiny) face that keeps me in a good mood each day. This little ray of sun wanted to play Peyton and Marvin outside today after lunch. No problem with me; I'm a little tired of playing Dora and Diego. The munchkin even insisted I borrow daddy's Marvin jersey to make it real. He himself was wearing his Peyton jersey, so I of course had to follow suit and put on a jersey as well. His #18 is getting a little small for him this year, and when we were shopping for a new jersey earlier this week, he requested "the 88...I want the Marvin shirt, Mom." And who out there thinks football is no good? Q can read double-digit numbers now with ease! He'll ace all his preschool math classes! ;-)
Anyway, Q is long ago in bed. (Am I a bad mom for purposely withholding a nap today so he'd be ready for bed early and I could watch tonight's game uninterrupted??) And the Colts are clinging to a 2-pt lead as I type....and have no running game...and are punting again. Gee....and I thought there was nothing more frustrating than waiting for a referral from the CCAA....
**Post-script: Colts win! Colts win! Much easier to face Mondays this way....