And here she is!

  

Jitters

It is official! Our LID is included in this group of matches. I am excited of course, but I am feeling jittery. My stomach has almost non-stop butterflies. It is strange that something we have waited so long for will be coming to an end. The lyrics from some old song I remember from college keep coming to my my, so cheesy, but so fitting...."every new beginning comes from some other beginings end..."

It has been over a year since we started paperchasing for our daughter. In some ways (I mean many, many, and most ways)I feel like it has been so long. But oddly there is a part of me that looks back on the last year and thinks man that really flew by. And now we are having another baby?! No way! No freaking way!

The way our agency operates, they take a whole day for translations. So they will get the package tomorrow I think and then we will be called on Tuesday. (Fat Tuesdsay!) We are also scheduled to get our second round of vaccinations that morning. Not sure how I will work that out.

I am also incredibly sad for the families who were cut so close by these May dates and the ones in June. I know the slow torture they are going through, the wailing, hair pulling and gnashing of teeth and so on and so forth. There is simply no comfort I can add except my empathy and testimony that it will eventually end, in warm hugs and sloppy kisses that will be so totally worth this drawn out ordeal.

Stork Alert!

Ok so the matches have been mailed, BUT is our LID (5/23) included????? ARGH! We don't know yet. I am literally shaking here. I am having a hard time typing this. If we are not in, ok I will deal with it. I am hoping to know something in the next couple of hours.
***UPDATE***
Ok I am very optimistic we are in! The rumor concensus seems to be sticking with a cut-off date of 5/25. Some one on a Yahoo board is tracking the packages via DHL (this is freaking unbelieveable! ) so we know where this package is. It should arrive on Monday and our agancy will make The Call on Tuesday morning. We are planning to videotape it too. I htink they send an email with her picture as you are speaking with them on the phone and then you also get a fedex package with the hard copies of information. This is all so surreal.

We went out to celebrate tonight with my parents and had dinner at a Mexican place, lenty of chips and salso and I had this giant 22 oz Dos XX, no way could I finish and still be coherent. Anyway putting the kids to bed now. They are very excited too. I told the kids I would print out an individual picture for them to keep and take to school and share with their frinds. Jake wants to get a map too and show everyone where she is.

Things are moving!!

My agency updated their website to let us know they received word that the CCAA is working on matches!!!* Some nutty lady on one of the big yahoo groups kept track for over a year of the number of days between our agency posting that message each month and the actual matches being sent out. I don't remember it exactly but I think the most days in between was 10. I know in a few cases it has been only one or two days!!!! Even Lee is starting to get excited, and this is a guy who didn't have much reaction to the addition of any of our other children until we were practically on the way to the hospital! Zippididodahzippidyay, that about sums up how I feel right now!!


*you must allow me to exercise my exclamation key excessively for the next few posts!!!!!!!!

aquarium

here are some shots from the Ga Aquarium, the little wormy things were so cool. They are called garden eels and they pop in and out.


     
    

fun weekend

  

Here is Lee trying to do a push up with all the kids on his back. It about killed him, but at least they had fun. It's all about the kids.

A Little Nutty

No posting for me lately. Honestly I am very on edge. Right after the last referrals were mailed I really was confident we would be next. Now I am getting anxious and worried. It is so unproductive and I hate feeling like this. I have absolutely no control over this and me worrying has zero effect on the outcome. I never thought of myself as a controller before this whole adoption thing and now I see how wrong I was. I just have never been in a situation where I have felt so helpless before. Well, I am sure I have I just can't think of one right now that has been this upsetting. I am about the most annoying person to be around right now. My head is in the clouds, my heart is aching and I just cannot focus on much of anything. Even this post is just grating. sorry. I am going to have a glass of wine and fix dinner. That might keep me from pulling my hair out.

Things that always get a snort or snicker from me

1. The planet 'Uranus'.
2. Good physical comedy.
3. Dumb knock knock jokes*
4. A good fart noise, real or fake
5. ring that squirts water
6. certain Looney Tunes
7. dizzy toddlers
8. a quick tickle**
9. Ryan's 'big eyes' fake surprised look.
10. All the movies by the guy who did "This is Spinal Tap" I want to say Christoher LLoyd but it isn't him. I will update this when remember. Well, not really "A Mighty Wind" it was ok, but my least favorite I guess. I must digress here for just a moment to say that when I first saw Spinal Tap in high school, my boyfriend was convinced it was real. I mean he even argued with me about it. Do I really need to explain that I soon came to my senses and broke up with him?
11. The SNL news bits where Norm would connect some wierd thing to David Hasselhoff.

There are several more things that make me chuckle, giggle etc. but this list only goes to eleven.


*must be told by someone who thinks it's hilarious and can't stop laughing even while telling the joke.

**I mean a real tickle not some BBC comedy euphemism

Mixed CD

My brother in law, John, just sent us some cd's and a super duper mixed cd just for us. The title? "Eighth Grade Jacket" Hee!

You just feel so special when you get a mixed cd. We brought in in the car with us to run errands and since John didn't send a list we had no idea what was on it. Ok so the first is some wierd technotronic song and Lee was all excited. It is some song off a video game they played called Buck Bumble. Never heard of it. The kids liked that song. They just do not have cool music taste yet, no matter how I much I try to enlighten them them.

Along the way is some Weezer and some punk Irish band singing about burnt toast. I like the toast song and Weezer is always good. Then there is some Rancid (which I can't stand but John continues to push on us) Then Hall and Oats? WTH? "You Make-a My Dreams Come True" John is messing with my head! I don't believe anyone has ever ever listened to both Hall and Oates and Rancid in the same year, much less on the same cd. Actually after I pushed my jaw back up I enjoyed hearing it, not too bad. Some other good new stuff too from John's eclectic collection ooh! that sounds good together, 'eclectic collection', I likes it and will probably use it again and again until Lee shoots me . There was also an instumental that started off great but then never went anywhere, don't know who that was. They sounded like a high school band that found a cool melody but then couldn't figure out what else to do with it.

All in all a good listen, except for the Rancid. I will never jump on the Rancid bandwagon. Sorry.