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!
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