Monkey See, Monkey Do

As I mentioned , I spent the last week on the road. I started out with a visit to my sister in DC. She just moved there and I am incredibly happy for her because she is so excited. In spite of the fact that I would never want to live in [...]

My fortune…

Fortune Cookie
Originally uploaded by Sutanto

From today’s Chinese take-out:
“A small lucky package is on its way to you soon”.
Much more interesting than anything Confucius has ever told me.

One!

Sorry for my long absence – I have much bloggy business to attend to! I have been traveling for the last week and had a wonderful time visiting my sister and learning lots of good stuff at a management class for work. I have pictures to share and will do so as soon as I [...]

A Midsummer Night

I’m not sure if August is technically mid-summer – perhaps it’s actually late summer. Regardless of what point of the summer we are officially in, we’re having some unbelievable weather for August in the Midwest. The temperatures have been in the 80’s – which is about, oh, 20 degrees lower than usual. [...]

A Little Housekeeping

So, I’ve found something to satisfy my need for progress and my desire to check things off a list during our wait for a referral. I started putting together a plan to address how I’m going to combine our guest room and our office (which if I’m really being honest is nothing more than [...]

Is it just me?

I’ve always been a bit envious of Samantha Brown from the Travel Channel. Her job consists of traveling to the most exciting places in the world, staying in the most fabulous hotels, and eating at all the fancy restaurants. This week she was in D.C. and visited an Ethiopian restaurant. I was [...]

Two Great Books

I’ve finished a couple of great books in the last week – both of which I would most definitely recommend.
The first is one of those books that probably every family adopting from Ethiopia has read. And if they haven’t, I think they probably should. This book provides a very high-level look at Ethiopian [...]

I think there’s something wrong with me…

Warning – I think what I’m about to write may make me sound really sick and twisted. I think I miss the paperwork phase of this adoption process. Crazy, I know. I have a few Type A personality tendencies, so I really am at my best when I’m working towards a goal, [...]