Another Friday, finally here...

Well, it's Friday and the hectic pace has finally caught up with me. I'm tired and feeling a bit sick. Everyone in the office has some kind of yucky cold and though I've been trying to fight it by going to bed early and drinking lots of water, I guess the stress of commuting over 2 hours a day is getting to me. I only have two days left here and hope I can push through and finish. I'm definitely going to take it easy this weekend and enjoy being home. I've really enjoyed myself at this job, though, and I'm going to miss pieces of it.. just not waking up at 5:30 and leaving by 6:45 to get here at 8...:)

So what's next for me? Nesting, nesting, nesting. When I'm finished nesting, I'll reconsider and see where we are with the adoption process. We hope to hear something about our kids by March sometime, but things can and do happen and we have to be prepared for it to extend past that. The other news is is that the place I'm contracting for has asked me to come back sometime to help with some auditing- a few days here and there- so I'll definitely consider that if I get too bored being at home, which is what usually happens after a couple of weeks!

Matt and I have a lot of little errands to run this weekend, but I'm happy that we have a few social gatherings as well. I have bookclub tomorrow, and we're going on a tour of the Brown Palace Hotel in downtown Denver. Matt's going to meet with his brother for lunch and then we'll reconvene and go shopping for a new dryer. Oh yes, we discovered that our dryer does not heat up any longer, unbeknownst to us. I tried to dry some clothes and the machine just kept running and running and nothing ever dries. It's a bummer, because it was one of the things I was most looking forward to when we moved back in. At our apartment, we had to use the coin operated washers and dryers in the dank basement with loads and loads of quarters. I swear, I spent almost 20 bucks a week in that place!

Sunday night is the presentation for Ethiopia Reads www.ethiopiareads.org, a non profit literacy program that helps make books available for kids in Ethiopia. It's pretty cool, and we hope to buy a few books for our kiddos and have them signed by the author, who will be there to show slideshow presentation. It's also great because these events give us the opportunity to meet with other families in the Denver area who have or are in process of adopting from Ethiopia. It's quite a nice sized group, and all of the people are really, really nice. For me, it's really encouraging to see all the kids who are home and how well they are doing, how happy they are and how much they seem to be thriving.

That's the news from here.. until next time!

We've moved!

Ok, so we've moved back into our condo in Littleton. It was quite the effort, but we were really thankful that our niece Kaydi, my brother Michael and our friends Todd and Scott showed up to help us unload the truck on Sunday morning. Loading the truck on Friday night was really difficult, but my husband is soooo amazing and basically loaded most everything by himself in about 4 hours... I helped by packing, transporting bins onto the elevator and packing some more. I started working at 7 a.m. Saturday and finished around 9:15 p.m. Everytime we move (which by last count was 9 times in 8 years) we ask ourselves "where did we get all of this stuff?"

Matt came up with the great idea of sleeping in the Holiday Inn by our house and I'm so glad he did! It was totally worth the money to get a nice, hot shower and a comfortable bed to sleep in after such a long day. I also need to mention how wonderful he is because he scheduled long massages with our long lost and very favorite massage therapist, Sherri. I can't wait!

So- now we're "home". It's time to get ready for the kids! I only have a week left at my job and am so excited about nesting. I'll be painting some of the rooms, setting up the nursery (as much as I can without knowing the age or gender of our kids) and revelling in the opportunity to cook more and work on projects I've been neglecting for months.

Until next time!

Arctic Friday

Hi Everyone,

It's absolutely freezing in Denver today. I feel like I'm in Wisconsin or something! When we woke this morning it was -8 with a windchill of -26. I don't remember a winter this cold in Colorado since moving here in 1998. Since this blog is mainly about our adoptions from Ethiopia, I thought I might write a bit about that. I've been finding a lot of comfort on the Yahoo Groups and the many blogs by other families either in process or home with their forever families. I can't really express how excited I am to get the call that our kids are at Horizon House and though some days I struggle with the wait, I always have to stop myself and trust that the timing will be perfect. I'm so excited to move back into our place in Littleton, so excited to finally start working on the nursery and spend some time nesting before our kids come home. I want to provide a peaceful environment for them and am so thankful that I can spend some time doing that. As it stands, my contract here in Denver ends February 13th, so I will be able to spend some good time unpacking and organizing before the family visits of February.

So, as they say, no news is good news and we're still waiting (somewhat) patiently for our kids to come home in 2007. When I put it that way, the wait doesn't seem that bad. Just to think that we will have two little ones at Christmas this year is very reassuring.

A New Day, A New Blog

So, I've decided to move my blog to this new address and hopefully, keep up to date with it a little better. I've been working a lot lately, and since my other blog is on my mac, I've had little time or energy to make entries. With this blog, I can work on it from anywhere, including from work. Yes, yes, I have time to work on my blog from work. I'm presently working as a contractor for a non-profit in Denver. It's a short contract and I'm working as a receptionist. Thing is, there isn't much reception to be done in the IT department, so most days I just hang out and surf the web or read books. Pretty boring, eh? In other news, Matt and I are moving again. This time, we're just moving to our old condo in Littleton. We did most of the big packing last weekend, so have been living amidst stacks of plastic bins this week and eating off of plastic plates and drinking from plastic cups. We're both looking forward to settling into our home again to get things ready for the kids. As for the adoption, we've heard nothing new lately so we continue to wait patiently for the call. We're hoping it will come in March or April and that we will be able to travel by the summer.