time to get packing

Let the countdown begin.  We leave for HCMC very, very early Sunday morning.  We arrive on Monday morning and my G&R (Giving and Receiving Ceremony) will be Tuesday.  At that point, Sadie is legally my daughter.  This time next week (Vietnam time), I will have my girl in my arms!!!
Wednesday is my last day at [...]

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here’s how it happened

It was about 9:15pm.  I was sitting on the couch watching TV.  My laptop was on the coffee table in front of me.  I had bought this adorable children’s book for one of my homework assignments and I thought the illustrations looked like the ones in "Pinkalicious."  So, I grabbed my laptop so I could [...]

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i just got my freakin approval!!!!!

I can’t believe it.  This is really happening.  I’m going to Vietnam!

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this made me laugh out loud

I love this show!  The guys are so freaking funny together.  When they sing the word "piano" in this promo, I laugh out loud.  I can’t wait for the new episodes to start. 

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100th post

One hundred posts and still no daughter at home to show for it.  Unbelievable.  I started this blog as an adoption journal and it seems to have turned into a sad, whiny bitch-fest.  How sad. 

It’s been quite an emotional few days.  I never thought that the baby bird story would end so badly.  I [...]

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baby bird didn’t make it

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things are not looking good for baby bird

I’ve made all of my neighbors aware of baby bird and one of them just knocked on my door.  She was coming home from dinner and found baby bird being pulled up the planter in a freaking spider web.  The spider had wrapped it’s web around baby bird and was literally pulling her up the [...]

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hummingbird 911

Of course this would happen to me….
I got home from work today and looked to the nest to say "hi" to baby bird and she was gone.  What the F?  I looked around, then, on the ground, I saw her.  She was right in front of the pot that the tree is in. 

I [...]

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138

Still nothing.  I don’t think anyone can really understand what this wait is like if they are not going through it themselves.  Sadie will be 13 months old next Wednesday.  It was one thing to be under 60 days stressing about the wait.  I am now at twice that.  MORE than twice that.  It is [...]

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growing, growing…

Look at my baby bird today! 

I can’t believe how big she’s gotten.  I even got to see her wings flutter today.  At the rate she’s going she’s sure to fly the nest soon.  All I can do is hope momma will come back and lay more eggs in the future. 

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orphans in film

I LOVE movies, musicals and theatre.  I plan to share this love with Sadie.  Well, yesterday I woke up and turned on the tv.  One of the many versions of Annie was on so I started watching and singing along (of course). 
 
Then, I started thinking.  Do I want Sadie to see this show?  The [...]

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baby bird

When I walked out of my place this morning I found momma sitting on the side of the nest with baby sticking her head out (I’ve decided it’s a her).  It would have been a great picture but if I went back in for my camera I would have been late for work and I [...]

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nothing

We had another agency conference call today.  Once again, no concrete information….nothing.  No one really knows what’s happening with the Tu Du block.  It is so incredibly frustrating. 
Things at work are getting complicated again.  My life is essentially on hold while I wait for this friggin approval.  I don’t know if I’ll be here [...]

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my latest obsession

You thought this was going to be another Rock Band post, huh?  Well, it’s not.  Not that I don’t LOVE Rock Band.  I do!  Y and I get together at least once a week and play until 2am.  But that’s another story….
There is a tree in a pot right outside my front door.  A few [...]

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what’s that i see?

A smile and a tooth!!!

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