Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Holy Poop Batman!

I bought my first package of diapers last night. I was at the grocery store and thought "what if they call us and tell us there is a baby to go get at the hospital" (don't laugh it could happen). I thought we could get by without a lot of things but that isn't one of them. I was SHOCKED! 10.99 for 40 diapers. I think i'll make my own wipes - there's a recipe where you cut a roll of papertowels in half and put it in a liquid that you make up and put into a tupperware container. My word - what you pay for convienience!

Monday, January 23, 2006

OH MY!!!!

I am so nerveous in my stomach now.......a good nerveous but butterflies galore!
We sent off the profiles on Friday and today, Monday, I was running a "fix" on my computer when i saw an Email come in entitled "the profiles are in"..... I had to wait 45 minutes to open it but this is what it said......

P,
Just wanted to let you know that we received your profiles and I distributed them to the various birthparent counselors today. Just in time, too. We have three birthmoms due in March who will be selecting families soon. Now all you have to do is hurry up and wait! God bless, S

YIKES!!!!!

Friday, January 20, 2006

Mailed it all off today................yikes!

Saturday, January 14, 2006

DONE....but not finished

3 1/2 hours and $300 later, I am done with the copies of the profile. I went into Kinkos and the girl said nicely that she could not copy them because there were a few professional pictures. I was going to be very upset but she did say i could color-copy them myself so i did---79 double sided sheets (so i actually was dealing with 158 copies). Then she said i could laminate them all myself ---that was cool because i could do it all myself and make sure it was exactly how i wanted it. The laminating makes it look SO good ---then they used a spiral....so professional! The girl was SO nice and said a lot of people do their profiles at Kinkos....but ours looked the best she has seen. She said they usually have a great cover and back page but the middle is boring. Ours, she said, was great on the inside and made us look "fun". I hope thats a good thing....lol. ("i don't want them to have my baby, they look like they have too much fun and would let the baby wander away.....")

This morning we went in to sign the papers for the loan and the woman found a mistake in the percentage of the interest so she must do them all over. Now we can't sign the papers until Tuesday and not get the money until the end of next week - delays delays! ARG
as soon as the money is in the back we will write the big check for all the porfiles to be sent in and then we will be shown!!!!! woooopie

We opened up a checking account for the baby----all the loan money will go in there and money we will start to put into it every month once the loan is paid off----watch out,k it's a college fund!!!!!

Monday, January 09, 2006

READY......SET........

Okay - all i have to do now is get 6 copies of the profile done and we'll close on our loan on Saturday January 14th ---it all gets shipped off with $4500.00 and the waiting begins. The agency said the corrections were okay and we're ready to go.........
YIKES!

Thursday, January 05, 2006

FAMOUS

  • Adopted Persons

Andy Berlin - entrepreneur: chairman of Berlin Cameron & PartnersAnthony Williams - politicianAristotle - philosopherArt Linkletter - comedianBo Diddley - musician, performerBuffy Sainte-Marie - musician, actressCarl-Theodor Dreyer - Danish film directorCharlotte Anne Lopez - Miss Teen USAChristina Crawford - authorClarissa Pinkola Estes - authorCrazy Horse - Lakota war chiefDan O'Brien - decathleteDaunte Culpepper - football playerDave Thomas - entrepreneur: founder of Wendy'sDebbie Harry - singerEdgar Allan Poe - poet, writerEdward Albee - playwrightEleanor Roosevelt - First LadyEric Dickerson - athleteFaith Daniels - news anchorFaith Hill - country singerFreddie Bartholomew - actorGeorge Washington Carver - inventorGreg Louganis - athleteJames MacArthur - actorJames Michener - authorJean Jacques Rousseau - philosopherJesse Jackson - ministerJesus - adopted by Joseph the carpenter (Bible)Jett Williams - country singer and authorJim Palmer - athleteJohn J. Audubon - naturalistJohn Hancock - politicianJohn Lennon - musicianLangston Hughes - poet and writerLarry Ellison - entrepreneur: chief executive of OracleLee Majors - actorLeo Tolstoy - writerLes Brown - motivational speakerLynnette Cole - Miss USA 2000Malcolm X - civil rights leaderMark Acre - athleteMatthew Laborteaux - actorMelissa Gilbert - actressMichael Reagan - author, talk show hostMoses - Biblical leaderNancy Reagan - First LadyNat King Cole - singerNelson Mandela - politicianPatrick Labyorteaux - actorPeter and Kitty Carruthers - figure skatersPresident Gerald Ford - politicianPresident William Clinton - politicianPriscilla Presley - actressRay Liotta - actorReno - performance artist, comedianSarah McLachlan - singerScott Hamilton - figure skaterSen. Paull H. Shin - politicianSen. Robert Byrd - politicianSteve Jobs - entrepreneur: co-founder of Apple computerSurya Bonaly - figure skaterTim Green - football player/commentatorTim McGraw - country singerTom Monaghan - entrepreneurTommy Davidson - comedianVictoria Rowell - actressWilson Riles - educator

Andy Kaufman - actorClark Gable - actorDavid Crosby - singerFaith Ireland - judgeHank Williams, Sr. - country music legendKate Mulgrew - actressJoni Mitchell - singerRoseanne Barr - actressMercedes Ruehl - actressStrom Thurmond - politician

Al Roker - news anchorAlfre Woodard - actressAlexander the Great - King of Macedonia, 356-323 B.C.Angelina Jolie - actressArt Buchwald - comedianBarbara Walters - journalistBen Stein - actor and game show hostBette Davis - actress
Billy Bob Thornton - actor, writer, singerBob (and Delores) Hope - entertainerBrooke Adams - actressBurt Reynolds - actorCalista Flockhart - actressCecil B. De Mille - film directorCharles Bronson - actorChelsea Noble - actressConnie Chung - news anchorDale Evans - singerDan Marino - athleteDan Wilson - athleteDavid E. Kelley - television producerDiane Keaton - actressDianne Wiest - actressDonna Mills - actressEd McMahon - entertainerErma Bombeck - authorEstelle Parsons - actressEve Arden - actressFather George Clements - ministerGail Sheehy - writerGary Merrill - actorGeorge Burns - comedianGeorge Lucas - film directorGloria Swanson - actressGracie Allen - comedianHarpo Marx - actorHarry Belafonte - singerHedy Lamarr - actressHelen Hayes - actressHenry Fonda - actorIsabella Rossellini - -actressJamie Lee Curtis - actressJane Fonda - actressJane Wyman - actressJann Wenner - publisherJill Ireland - actressJill Krementz - authorJoBeth Williams - actressJoan Didion - authorJoan Fontaine - actressJohn DeLorean - entrepreneurJohn Denver - singerJohn Gregory Dunne - authorJosephine Baker - singer and dancerJudy Woodruff - news anchorJulie Andrews - actressKaren Grassle - actress
Karl Wallenda - acrobatKate Capshaw - actressKate Jackson - actressKirby Puckett - athleteKirk Cameron - actorKirstie Alley - actressKris Kristofferson - singerKurt Vonnegut - authorLinda Ronstadt - singerLoni Anderson - actressLouis Gossett, Jr - actor.Magic Johnson - athleteMarcia Wallace - actressMarie Osmond - singerMaury Povich - news anchor
Mercedes Ruehl - actressMia Farrow - actressMichelle Pfeiffer - actressNatalie Williams - athleteNell Carter - entertainerNicole Kidman - actressOscar de la Renta - designerOzzy (and Sharon) Osbourne - musicianParker Stevenson - actorPatti LaBelle - singerPaul Newman - actorPaula Poundstone - comedianPearl Bailey - singerPeter Falk - actorPresident Ronald Reagan - politicianRegina Belle - singerRichard King Mellon - financierRobert Fulghum - writerRosie O'Donnell - actressRoy Rogers - entertainerSally Jessy Raphaƫl - talk show hostSammy Davis, Jr. - entertainerSen. Jesse Helms - politicianSen. John McCain - politicianSen. Lloyd Bentsen - politicianSen. Paul Simon - politicianSen. Paull H. Shin - politicianSen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson - TexasSharon Stone - actressSir Christopher Guest - actorStephen Spielberg - film directorSteven Curtis Chapman - Christian musicianSusan Ruttan - actressTaurean Blacque - actorTed Danson - actorTeri Garr - actressTom Cruise - actorValerie Harper - actressWalt (and Lily) Disney - founder of DisneylandWilliam Delahunt - politicianWillie Mays - athlete

Sunday, January 01, 2006

I started thinking again about how you really fall in love with your children and i found this on another site - it was so touching:

I don't care if they are biological or adopted, I think it really is a process and it really does not happen overnight. I have heard all kinds of things on boards....from worries that they won't bond to an adopted child like a biological child to no worries that they will bond to a child and that it will happen instantaneously. I think what bonds you to a child is experience. It is not the biological tie. I also think you need to be somewhat prepared to not instantly bond with your child as it is a process.We fall in love with our children through shared experiences. We fall in love with them through caring for them through all their sleepless nights and sick days and the times that they fell down and got "owies". We fall in love with them for teaching us about ourselves and selflessness. We fall in love with them for their goofy laughter and spontaneousness and their ability to bring our young selves out. We fall in love with them for their compassion and innocence. We fall in love with them for their openness...for their chance to be little, to be young, to love life to the fullest.

Another step.....
We signed the papers for the loan today. $25,000 to make sure, but it won't be that much. It seems a little more real every step.