The Daily Dolly

You know that old saying ”a monkey is a dog’s best friend?”

Meet the Social Worker

We survived the first visit with our home study social worker.  LOVE HER!  She came highly recommended from a friend of Matt’s and from our brief time with her tonight, we are very impressed. Tonight was actually more of an orientation really than an interview.  She asked use some general questions [...]

The Daily Dolly

“If I hold very still, they’ll never know I’m under here.”

Oscar Rundown

I always enjoy the red carpet even though I always find myself asking “why do I care”? I had to draw the line when Matt had E! on this afternoon at 2pm and they were going full force with pre-Oscar madness with the Kardashin girls picking out their outfits for the Oscars. They [...]

Autobiography – check!

So the autobiographies are complete and off to the social worker. We went to our favorite coffee shop this afternoon and didn’t let ourselves leave until both were done. Why was this process so painful? I can’t really put my finger on it. Perhaps it’s one of those things that [...]

Pho-riday

So, technically the bowl of food closest to the camera is Bun, but the other bowl is a nice steaming hot bowl of Pho (pronounced fuh). Since beginning this whole adoption business Matt and I have started a tradition that we like to refer to as “Pho Friday”. Basically it consists of us [...]

Eye Candy Friday

From the ice storm of ‘07.

The Daily Dolly

Progress!

We are making fast and furious progress on the homestudy!  Our social worker called today and we have scheduled all of our interviews for the next 3 weeks.  Our reference letter requests are out.  We got our medical clearance.  We should be done in no time!  Now if I could just finish that darn autobiography…
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The Daily Dolly

Patterned after Heather’s “Daily Chuck” on her blog, Dooce, I’m going to try to post frequent photos of our Corgi, Dolly. She is pretty much a complete moron, and a genius all wrapped up in one short-legged shedding ball of fun. And no, I didn’t place her in this position. Enjoy.

-Matt-