I've said it numerous times on this blog that I want to be with my sweet girl by May for her second birthday. This is still possibly only in the most God-powered way, but I'm haning on to hope. In honor of May being the fifth month of the year and the fact that were selected for Little Miss FIVE months ago and especially (thank you Jen) in honor of this entire adventure making us a FAMILY OF FIVE I am bring you a post of fives.
Five Facts About My Adoption
1. Our social worker has the same name that we'll be giving Little Miss with a slightly different spelling
2. The document that got messed up is being overnighted to our house and should be here by noon tomorrow.
3. There are a lot of things that I haven't let myself do/buy/think about until we are done with the paperwork because there is still a part of my heart that is very very afraid
4. My motto when it comes to adoption reading is "It's better to be scared than unprepared". Anyone else have a rhyming motto? I didn't think so. :)
5. Her room was supposed to be purple like mine when I was little, but it's actually cranberry and light pink and a sage green.
Five Facts Not About My Adoption
1. The boys' room was done in a Zanzibar animal theme (recently) and I've (more recently) decided I don't like it anymore and am trying to think of a reason that my husband will find reasonable to re-do it.
2. I'm in the process of working myself up to beginning exercising...again.
3. I had mastoiditis in California and it was more painful than giving birth without an epidural. I swear. Truly.
4. I am very low maintanance as far as women go and sometimes wish I was higher maintainance. :)
5. I'm enjoying the process of making my Adoption Flag Blankets way more than I thought I would.
Five Pictures of My Family
Five Prayer Requests for Our Family
1. Patience and Steadiness for us through the rest of this process
2. Strength and Peace for Little Miss & her first mom as they go through the most difficult time in their lives
3. God's blessing on our finances4. Our continued efforts to build a local and diverse support system
5. Adjustment (all the way around) for the boys while we're gone and traveling, for us while we're in ET, for the kids to all adjust to each other, for Andrew and I to adjust to three, for the 80 million things Little Miss will have to adjust to, for our immediate and extended families, etc and so forth...
Five Links You Should Check Out
2. My friend Jen's blog is one of my favorites
3. Great parenting resource, this was INVALUABLE to me with our first baby
4. My facebook fan page. I'm trying to make this cool so any and all feedback would be fabulous!
5. In the mood for some online shopping? Find something that you'd never thought about buying before.
Saw you got your new counter working! And seriously- you got something against prom queens? :-)
ReplyDeleteHa! It was too funny to pass up.
ReplyDeleteGreat post about five's!!! Great pics of your family too.
ReplyDeleteAnother big FIVE...you'll soon be a family of five!
I just became a fan on FB! :) And cute pics!
ReplyDeleteI hear you loud and clear on the fear of things not working out. As you know, your blankie is the only thing I have for our baby, and I know that we won't do much other than odds and ends like that until we have a referral in hand. Deep down I know it will all be okay, but it is still so scary.
I love the pic of you and your hubby, it's so cute!!!
ReplyDeleteJen, I can't believe I didn't think about becoming a family of five. That's so great that I'm going to add it to my post! :)
ReplyDeleteKelly, it's good to know that I'm not the only one that is scared. I don't even have a good reason to be, really. I'm just a little hung up on something.
Tammy, thanks for the compliment. I really like that picture too ESPECIALLY because that's the picture that we took of ourselves after getting off the phone with our SW from Holt telling us that we'd been approved for Little Miss!! :)
You do such a great job updating your blog! Hoping your homestudy is in Holt's hands SOON and that you can get your dossier sent off to ET! How long will it take you to get your I-171H?
ReplyDeleteI cloth diaper too! We didn't start until our 3rd and I LOVE it!!
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