The Amazing Journey to Karlee: November 2006

Thirteen Things about I Need To Do

1…. Finish a quilt that I am making for a x-mas gift. See quilt in previous post.
2. Decorated the x-mas tree. It's been up for two days. Duane strung the lights, as he knows how easily that can piss me off. Thank You Duane!
3. Diet- It's been out of wack for some time now. With the referral wait increasing I tell myself I have plenty of time to loose some weight.
4. Go to the dentist. I keep cancelling my appointment. They say I need to replace a crown! It feels fine too me and I don't want to spend the $$ really!
5. Speaking of denist, I need to floss more often!
6. I really need to start doing some x-mas shopping as I need to mail a package to VA.
7. Start getting ready for taxes! DOUBLE YUCK!! Really thought this time last year we would get $ back as we would have a little one here!Oh well!
8. Clean out closets and reorganize so Karlee will have room in hers. Duane will have to downsize a bit!! He only uses all of our bedroom closet plus a department store style clothing rack in the garage! My DH has more clothes than any woman!
9. Get my hair done. I have an appointment in 2 weeks, I am getting some seriously dark roots!
10. This is really minor, but I need figure out what to wear to Duane's birthday party saturday. I can't wait, should be lots of fun! As my blogger buddy Heather calls it, I will be having lots of COLD BARLEY SOUP!!! (See explaination @ Digging a hole)
11. For a nail tech, I am in serious need of a pedicure! I have not had a professional one since our cruise in August......I know... YUCK.
12. I need a BIGGER house. We are busting out and I can't imagine what it will be like once Karlee is here. Soon as we get back from China that is our next project. We need to decide where we want to live, or add on to existing home and stay here for a while longer. Who knows what we will decide. We obviously have plenty of time to think about it!
13. I need to go to bed! It's midnight and I have a full day at the shop and then it's strait to UPS at 4:00pm - 11:00pm! OH Peak Season is a B!!!!
GOODNIGHT!

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Cute Cute Cute!

I found these at Kohls a few weeks ago and I just had to get them. The colors match Karlee's room perfectly.

Weekend Project

Here are some pictures of my latest project. I have been working on this denim quilt for the last week and finally finished this weekend. I used all of Duane's old jeans I could find. I needed a few more so I ran to the nearest Goodwill store and stocked up! I bought jeans for $1.49 and I went back yesterday and they had jeans on sale for $.99!!!!Ya can't beat that! So I now have enough denim to do another!!! Someone will be getting one for x-mas! Anyways, I had fun and it was rather simple. Its not perfect but its good enough for me!

A Few Picture of My Brother Justin's Wedding

My little brother Justin got married on October 7th, 2006. Some how I managed to overlook that big event in my blog. No excuses, I was just busy! The wedding was beautiful and Nicole looked gorgeous in her dress. Family came in from Oklahoma, Minnesota and Virginia. It was great to see everyone, just wish we had more time to visit with family. We all had a great time celebrating with Justin and Nicole and of couse everyone adored Peyton. I am thrilled to be aunt and finally have a sister! Now if we could just get Karlee, life would be perfect.

Thirteen Things about Mya

1. I love My husbabd - He makes me laugh daily!
2. I love my family. I have been blessed!
3. I love the smell of horses. While its been a long time since I have owned a horse, I loved to ride and enjoyed brushing a braiding my horse Mindy's mane and tail when I was a kid!
4. I love A clean house. However, I do not like to be the one cleaning it!
5. I love to snuggle with my kitties on the couch!
6. I love a good book on rainy days. Sandra Brown is one of my favorites.
7. I love to dance, don't do it often and I am not the greatest but it sure is fun.
8. I love my nail clients. Many have been clients for 10+ yrs. They are all great ladies and many friendships have been made over the years.
9. I love a good nap. Eveyone who knows me, knows I love to sleep! Yes, I know those days will soon be over. Meanwhile, I'll get one while I can.
10. I love fishing at the coast. It all started when my dad took me fishing and I kept the catfish I caught in a fish tank unitl it died I guess....don't really remember what happend to the fish. I can't wait for Karlee to catch her first fish!
11. I love Nicholas Cage. I have had a crush on him since I saw the movie Valley Girls back in junior high.
12. I love summer.....Swimming, friends, the coast and BBQ's
13. I love Pecan Pie! I can't wait for Thanksgiving!

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Last Weeks Update

There is not much news this week regarding the adoption but wanted update on the last few days. As many as you know I had a birthday last friday. And I want to thank everyone for the birthday greetings via e-cards, e-mail, birthday cards and dozens of phone calls. Thank you all for thinking of me. I had a great day. The best was not having to work @ UPS friday night!! Wooo Hoooo! Duane and I with his mother, went out for wings with our friends Sharlene and Oscar to Buffalo Wild Wings. The wings were hot and the beer very cold.!(the wings were very SPICY but I loved it!!)

On the adoption front......there's not much to tell. We probably won't have any new info until the end of the month or early December. But I am very excited to say that we will be bringing my mother with us to CHINA!!!! Thanks to my wonderful dad who has offered to pay her way so she can be with me! I am so excited and she is excited. She is getting her passport documents together and then it's time to get her vacinated!!! My mother-in-law will be traveling with us as well, so they can share a room. Not to mention the great help they will be to Duane and I. What a blessing to have them both with us on this amazing journey. So I have started to get the itch to get packing and buy things on our packing list. The thought is a little overwhelming at times. It will be time to go before we know it. I can't believe Thanksgiving is next week and then x-mas......and then the new year and then only a few months to Karlee.

Now who is going to feed my fur babies while we're gone????? Anyone??? Actually, Nikki my co-worker of 14 years has accepted the duty of caring for my babies. However, I need to work out the issue with the cat litter.....she doesn' want to scoop any poop! It should not be that big of a problem! Did I mention Nikki has never owned a pet and is scared of animals??? What a great friend to agree to care for my pets. Actually, she has cared for the kitties sevesl times before for short periods! I just could not imagine bording my Nikko for 2+ weeks. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you Nikki in advance for doing this for me!!! I owe you BIG!

Also, as I have mentioned before we are still undecided on a middle name for Karlee. We are welcoming your ideas. Nothing sounds good to me. I know many of you think we should carry on the Mae with her because I am Mya Mae and my mom is Bonnie Mae but I am just not sold!!!! So come on guys give me some names!!!!

Not So Happy Anniversary!

Today, is our 1 year anniversary of our LID! That is log in date for those of you not familiar with the lingo! Not something we thought would be possible but here we are facing an even longer wait. This time last year I thought the next six months would never come and now we have already doubled that wait! Had I known then how long the wait would be I can't honestly say I/we would have consisdered this option. After all the infertility issues, we just wanted a family the quickest way possible and China was our answer. I have been asked by a few if it would have been quicker if we had adopted domestically? I don't know if it would have been quicker or not but its not the road we chose. I just hope once we are home with our little girl, the pain of waiting really does go way like I hear it does!

In the meantime we are occupied by our two fur babies Nikko and Leon. Nikko Has been my baby for 15 years and I hope for many more to come. I aquired him while working for a vet in my very early 20's. He was brought in with his sibling at 4 days old and the woman wanted them destroyed! I chose Nikko and begged the other Vet Techs to take the others and they were all saved. My girlfriends can't believe he's still around. But the vet says he looks great for his age even with his kidney disease.

Leon is a cat that my friend Jessica brought to our apartment the night before Thanksgiving in 2000! She as well as some other friends and Duane were at a local bar and he happened to run though it. Her husband would not let her keep it so she talked Duane into it! Duane did not remember saying it was okay but Jessica brought the cat to me that night. (Why I was at home and not at Leons too I do not know!) Anyways, Leon is named after the bar and is Duane's baby! So thank you Jessica for not keeping him for yourself or I guess I should thank your husband Justin for not letting you have him! Here are a few pictures of our babies