Nursery Pre-Planning

It’s way too early to start planning a nursery, of course. But I was in the fabric store the other day for something completely unrelated and there were so many adorable nursery-ish fabrics that I just couldn’t resist a little “pre-planning”, so to speak. We don’t know yet whether we will have a boy or [...]

Big Day

Today we reached an exciting milestone in our adoption journey. Matt picked up our final home study documents this morning and sent our I-600A application off to USCIS. (For those of you not familiar with all of the lingo, we have to get US immigration to approve us for an adoption before we [...]

Happy (Belated) Easter

I’m a little bit behind with this one, but I hope you all had a wonderful Easter weekend! We went to really great Good Friday and Easter Sunday services and got to spend some time with family and friends. I actually had a 3-day weekend, but spent much of it working at the church [...]

American Idol

American Idol Season 7 – loving it!! I think this is absolutely the best season of talent ever and the addition of the contestants’ instruments is one of the best things to ever happen to the show, in my opinion. I’m a big fan of the singer/songwriter, guy-and-a-guitar, girl-and-a-piano type of musician and [...]

You Say Couch Potato, I Say Couch Po-ta-to

This is a difficult thing to admit, but I’m afraid I have become a bit of a couch potato. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t sit around on the couch all the time – I’m not home that much – but when I am you’ll typically find me in a position that looks something [...]

Your Tax Dollars at Work

Sadly, it’s not very often that we Americans have a reason to give our good ole’ bureaucrats a pat on the back. I would like to take this opportunity to tell you all, however, how incredibly efficient the USCIS passport office is. Matt and I both received our passports after just 10 business days instead [...]

Round and round and round we go…

We (and hundreds of other families) continue to face a lot uncertainty in the world of Vietnam adoption. We are still optimistic and hoping for the best, but can’t really say what the future holds at this point. If you’re so inclined, we’d ask for continued prayers for those charged with the tough [...]

Weird Things

My dear real life friend Sarah tagged me with the “6 weird things” meme, so here it is!
These are the rules!
1. Link to the person that tagged you.
2. Post the rules on your blog.
3. Share six non-important things/habits/quirks about yourself.
4. Tag six random people at the end of your post by linking to their blogs.
5. [...]

Home Study – check!

We have officially done everything required of us to complete our home study. Last week we had our joint interview and tonight we had our individual interviews . I was surprised by how low key all of our visits with the social worker were. No sweat! In spite of our extraordinarily [...]

The Daily Dolly

Dolly’s having a little bit of trouble adjusting to daylight savings time…