August 2006 is out of review!

Since my LID is Sept 1st, that means my dossier is sitting on someone’s desk right now about to be, is, or just finished being review. 

So close!! I am really feeling it now. Wow!! I’m really speechless. Need to digest…..

I was in Boston all day in a conference at the TD Banknorth Garden. Completely out of touch, no cell, no email, no voice mail. 

What an amazing thing to come home to. Ahhhh….. I am going now to take my vitamin W (wine) and savor the moment. 

My adoption agency sent the waiting families an update. Here is an excerpt:

 ”The referrals we received this month were from Qinghai Province which is pretty far west, next to Tibet.  These are the first referrals I have seen from this province and orphanage. I am not saying that there have never been referrals from here before, there appear to have been very few. Hopefully referrals from this area are an indication of some new orphanages submitting child dossiers.”

I am feasting on every crumb of good news!

Bon appetite!

I am not sure if there is such a thing, yet. As I was adding some of the blogs I frequent to my sidebar I started to think. Hummmm, maybe there is some unknown rule that I don’t know about or perhaps it’s just a courtesy. Like asking the blog owner’s permission to link their blog to mine. 

My first impression of the blog world is it’s an honor to be linked from a fellow blogger’s blog.  However, I haven’t linked all the blogs a frequent. Why? Because I am lazy. I’d rather pop in and out of my favorite sites, surf the net, play with the new iMac, or down load my cd collection in to iTunes. Blog.com is not the most user friendly blog site to use. I should switch, again there are other things I would rather do. 

So, here is my courtesy call to all of you fellow bloggers I have linked to mine. Please let me know if you would rather not be linked to mine and I will unlink you. 

Thanks for sharing! I really enjoy my little adoption blog community. Welcome to my world. 

P.S. Does anyone know, is there Blogging Etiquette?

Today is one year that my documents were logged into the CCAA. 

Technically I have been waiting since the day I went on my agencies singles wait list, which was February 1, 2006. 

As of today I have been waiting 19 months. 

Wow! Although this has been a very emotional year, it has gone by very fast.  I can only hope the next 12-19 months goes by as fast.

The only problem is… hey I am not complaining…. I have a lot to do to get ready for Miss Hazel. I have bought a few things and my Secret Pal has showered me with beautiful gifts for her. 

Actually, this last bounty of gifts from her has inspired me to get Hazel’s room ready.  I have not had the emotional strength to even consider that monumental task. Her future bedroom is loaded with my future tag sale stuff. SP you sparked the desire. It will need to smolder for awhile until I am absolutely sure if I am going to move or not.

Also, there are many more books about adoption, attachment and parenting I want to read. 

I want to learn some basic baby sign language.

I really would like to learn a few survival words in Mandarin for our first few days together. The only thing that is stopping me is what if they don’t speak Mandarin in her province. Maybe once I get my referral. 

I need to find bookcases with glass doors. I have a plethora of books. I have a huge fear of bookcases and a tip-over accident. Whenever I look at bookcases all I can see is little toes gripping the edge of the shelves and a little Hazel scaling the shrine of reading. So, I would really like to find the old fashion barrister’s bookcases. There is a wonderful consignment that I frequent often. I have seen those types of bookcases in there before, when I wasn’t in the market for them. Figures!

In the next few months I will start house hunting. I poke around the MLS website. I am gambling on the market to go down in prices during the winter. 

I need to get serious about saving money. The first 12 months of my wait  I was really good. Lately I’ve been very lax and spending way too much.  Time to buckle down and get serious about saving again.

I really need to loose about 50 pounds. I have lost 15 over the summer. I have been lollygagging and I need to buck it up. My latest mantra is… “The feeling of being thin is better than the taste of (whatever I am about to put in my mouth).”  Let’s see how long that lasts.

In the beginning of August I started collecting for Hazel’s 100 Good Wishes Quilt. I already in the process of swapping for 39 squishes. Not bad for one month. So, I have a quilt and a wish book to put together.

I am writing a couple of different books for Hazel. 

Do you think I can get it all done and still live life one day at a time?

How about you, what’s on your agenda for the next year?