Today my sister Sara and I went to Mr. & Mrs. Long Talker’s house to visit and meet their new baby. Sara brought the boys (my fabulous nephews Jake and Joey). Baby Long Talker is just adorable. He’s only 5 weeks old so he’s mainly just eating and sleeping. So tiny. “Rochelle” looks great, and…

When I call a married girlfriend’s house and her husband answers the phone, I like the conversation to go a certain way. Example: my Brother in Law is great at answering the phone when I call. We’ve been friends for 15 years- longer than he’s even known my sister, and yet he seems to get…

Saturday we went to our agency’s adoption seminar. We wanted to attend a seminar before officially applying as we had some questions. All of our questions were answered and then some. We learned a lot. Our facilitator had just returned the previous week from picking up her 2nd daughter in China, so she was full…

My MIL is a librarian and yesterday was her library’s 5th birthday celebration. She’s recruited me to face paint during the parties the last couple of years. This was the library’s 5th birthday and the largest party. Knights and princesses and dragons and castles made up the decor and theme. A local artist painted big…

Jon’s been busy with some little upgrades to the house. We want to get the house as much in order and looking nice as we can before Ling Ling comes home. *** We know that when she gets here there will be very little time left for home improvements. He hung a ceiling fan in…

Where are you in the process? is another question we get asked a lot. Perhaps we shouldn’t have announced our plans to adopt so early. Maybe we should have waited until we were DTC (dossier to China) because in the 2 months since we’ve announced our plans our answer hasn’t really changed much and that…

Saturday I met up with Karen and another Shannon to go shopping for our adoptive daughters to be. We had a big time at the mall- hitting all the kid’s clothing stores pretty hard. I was hesitant at first, I’ve not bought anything for Ling Ling yet, save a print for her room. But I…

Ever since we announced our plans to adopt we’ve been asked lots of questions. So I’m putting together a little Frequently Asked Questions list to mail out to our family. I’m going to be sending out a little newsletter periodically that highlights our progress with the adoption, the nursery, the 100 wishes quilt (that I…

Here are a couple of pug pics from the last few days. Click on the image to enlarge. There is no real theme to this post, just a bunch of little things have been flying around my head and I need to get them down. -Player pianos creep me out. Like ghosts are playing them…

We had our first dinner out on the deck this weekend. The candles were one of my first IKEA purchases ever. Just 5 bucks and this candle holder can form a circle or a straight or wavy line, whatever. So cool. It fits perfectly around the umbrella pole in the outside table. Jon’s parents came…