Dania

Usually when I get new pictures of Dania it makes my day. Today however they almost made me cry because I have no idea when she will officially be our little girl. I'm sorry that she will miss our first christmas in our new house. On the bright side she looks happy and content, and that is wonderful medicine to my soul. A mission team is on its way to Haiti next week from the org. I am adopting from. I was invited last year to go but I had Tonyas kids and Nate was away. This year when they started planning the trip I didn't consider going because I was pretty sure she would be home by now. I am wondering if I should have gone this time to meet her or would that have made things harder?

No News

We have been back to our schedule this week but we are definitley starting later than usual. We have been incredibly tired so my feet aren't hitting the floor till 8 or 9am. Evan and I went out last night to buy the boys some pants and sweats, they have all been flooding around here or walking around with holes in their pants. All the boys are very tall for their ages so it makes buying things that fit difficult. Austin 10 needs 12 slim but even those have to have the adjustable waistband pulled tight. Evan is not quite as skinny so 10 slim fits him pretty well. Luke on the other hand would fit a size 7 perfectly but with no room to grow and the size 8 swamps him, so I ended up with the size 7. I just bought him the cheapest stuff I could find since he won't be wearing them next year for sure.

It was snowing nice and heavy in DC last night, boy am I bummed not to ever have snow around Christmas time. It MAY snow here but usually in Jan, Feb. The good news though that next week in VA the temps are going to be in the upper 60's and even 70's, so if it won't snow we should have lovely weather for sightseeing which is actually better for the kiddos on this kind of a trip.

Party's over

The party is over and it was a success. Everybody liked the food and house and having it in our home made it so much better than eating at a restuarant. Of course there were a couple of camera's but we forgot to take pictures, duh. Sunday we skipped church but had my parents and in laws, plus Tony(Nate's business partner) over for lunch. Today has been sort of a let down after all the action, not that I enjoyed all the stress of prep work but it definitley felt dull around here today. Luckily we are heading to Va on Saturday so we will be able to truly relax and take in the sites of Williamsburg decorated for Christmas.

Today's disaster was I washed my new RED tablecloth with my expensive white mattress cover. I bleached it, but to no avail. The top of my dryer is even stained a nice deep pink. Maybe I should sue Walmart(kidding) for making their dye so strong that even metal is ruined.

I love having boys for the most part and here is one of the reasons why: I drove up in the driveway to see Austin in the back yard digging a hole with the large shovel.

Me "what are you doing"

Austin "digging a hole"

Me "I can see that, it's pretty big, but why are you digging a hole?"

Austin "for the fun of it, of course"

Me "oh yes, the fun of it, of course"


Tonight is tree decorating time as soon as Nate gets home from his meeting. We did end up getting a beautiful live tree since we were having the party and didn't have time to do anything else, it cost $63 which is so sickening. I will try to take pictures and post them if I can find the down loading cable, it has been missing since Thanksgiving.