We’ve Cleared The Last Hurdle!

The end of February we were contacted by our agency to advise us that the CC@@ was requesting updated information from us.

I was flooded with mixed emotions. I was glad to hear that we finally made it to the review room but scared to death that this might be where our journey to our little one would end.

I gathered up the information they were looking for and faxed it off to our agency right away. After lots of emails and phone conversations with a very patient and helpful contact at our agency I finally sent the original documentation requested and waited to here some good news.

I have been on pins and needles for almost 2 LONG months but today, I finally received the long awaited for email:

“We confirmed with the CC@@ last night that they received the documentation and your file is proceeding at the CC@@.”

I have never been so happy to read an email in my life!





For those of you unsure of what all this means, a quick summary would be that China has review our file and they approved us to be parents to one of their beautiful, amazing, wonderful, breathtaking children!!

Of course just to let you know, this does not shorten our wait time. It certainly does ease our minds though, knowing that we are now just* waiting, and no longer waiting & wondering if we would be approved.

* this is not to imply that the wait has all of a sudden turned into a cake walk, lol

Fresh Hope ...

Some of you will already know this but I want to give an update of where our adoption journey is leading now … As all of you know wait times for China have grown out of control and the uncertainty is very frustrating (to say the least).

Last night Larry & I attended the first night of PRIDE (Parenting Resources Information Development Education) training. We are participating in these sessions because we have made the decision to peruse domestic adoption while we wait for our little one from China. This was a tough decision but we feel that it is the right choice for us at this point in our lives. Regardless of the outcome, this training will be very valuable in the future for us as parents to our child or children … whatever the plan may be. We have many sessions of the PRIDE training to come over the next couple months and look forward to learning together.

DISCLAIMER:
THIS IN NO WAY MEANS WE ARE GIVING UP ON OUR ADOPTION FROM CHINA.

When Larry and I got home last night from the training session, I stepped out of the car guess what I heard ... SPRING PEEPERS!! What a wonderful sign of spring! We have been having some spring like weather finally and tomorrow is supposed to be another nice day.




I woke up this morning with a sore throat, achy ears, nagging cough and a headache. I hope I am feeling good enough to go for a nice long walk after work tomorrow that always makes me feel better.

I’M IT!

I have been tagged by Darcie @ "DND’s Adventure’s in Asia". So here we go with my answers:


Four jobs I've had:
1. Payroll Administrator
2. Receptionist / Administrative Assistant
3. Printing Press Operator
4. Customer Service Representative

Four shows on my Tivo:
1. ER
2. Surivor & Big Brother
3. One Tree Hill
4. Two and a Half Men

Four Places I have been:
1. British Columbia
2. Quebec
3. New York
4. Prince Edward Island

Four favorite foods:
1. Potatoes - cooked, fried, baked … whatever
2. Seafood
3. Cereal – anytime of the day
4. BBQed anything

Four Cd's I've recently listened to:
1. Taylor Swift
2. Steve Miller Band
3. Colbie Caillat
4. Flo Rida

Four things you can do to make my day:
1. Warm my car up for me when it is cold out. (Thanks Larry, xoxo)
2. Make me laugh
3. Make memories with me
4. Be a true friend … I can’t stand fake people
** I also like Darcie’s answer … “Comment on my blog”

Now I have to tag 4 other lovely ladies.

Danni @ LayDFrog
Lea @ Lea’s Musings
Sherri @ Journey To Nikki
Kerri @ The Monkey King

I can’t wait to read your answers!

Happy Birthday to ...

DORIS @ 3D's

I always enjoy reading your blog. You are an inspiration, a motivation and a friend to all of us waiting Mommies.







Enjoy your special day girl, you deserve it!!!







Drop by Doris's blog and leave her some birthday wishes.

Birthday Recap

Thank you to everyone for the nice birthday wishes on my last post. I celebrated my birthday on the weekend with lots of friends, fun, and a few drinks!!

Here are a few pictures from the evening ... enjoy!

Busy Birthday Fun!!

I had a very good birthday with lots of good wishes from friends and family. I came home tonight to K*F*C for supper and ice cream cake for dessert, yummy!!



A few weeks ago I broke my camera at my friends birthday party and I was devastated. Taking pictures for me is like breathing. The best gift I received today was a new camera!!! Woo Hoo!! I will be putting it to good use tomorrow night. A bunch of friends are getting together for some drinks and dancing to celebrate my birthday with me. I’m sure that outing will deserve a post all it’s own, lol!

Tomorrow we are also going to "late" Easter dinner at my Mom's house. As you know my Mom and I were away from home last weekend so we decided to have our usual Easter dinner this weekend instead.

Busy, busy day tomorrow and then recuperating on Sunday before heading back to work on Monday.

I hope you all ...

Welcome Spring!

Some bullets to save time:

* I have started playing around with creating new headers for my blog and I love making them!! I still don't know how to change the background colour of my blog but someday I will get it, lol!

* I have some pictures to add from last weekend but they are on my old camera and I do not have them off yet.

* A few weeks ago I broke my good camera that I use all the time. Grrr....

* Plans are being made for me for the weekend and I am getting very nervous/excited. I think my friends and hubby are up to something ... hummmm ...

Hippity, Hoppity Easter Is TODAY!

I hope you all have a wonderful day spent with lots of friends, family, food and of course ... CHOCOLATE!!

I was looking for a video to include in my post tonight and I found this. It is not really related to easter but there is a bunny in it and he is adorable! The song is really nice it you listen to the words. Enjoy!



I have enjoyed the last 2 days with my Mom. One day we relaxed and the other day we shopped our buts off! I'm sure I will probably post more about this in another post since my Mom got me something special for Easter while we were shopping.

See You Soon Mom!!

I've been missing my Mom since she has been staying with my nephew, Colin, for 3 days now. It is really weird not getting her phone calls at work. I will be heading up on Friday to stay with them for the weekend.

Every year when Patricia (my stepsister) and her husband (Stephen), go on vacation my Mom goes up to stay with Colin. I am really looking forward to going up and doing some “city shopping” but I am sure the stores will be crazy on Saturday with people last minute Easter shopping.

It will be crazy, but I'm sure it will be a blast!!



See you on Friday Mom!!!
xoxo

Luck O' The Irish To Ya'

for the comments!

First of all THANK YOU for all the encouraging comments on my previous post. I am still dealing with this issue and I am hoping that it will be resolved this week.

I am always amazed at the wonderful support that comes from all you bloggers that I have never actually met. Starting this blog was something I was hesitant on doing and now I can’t believe I even thought twice about it.




I feel very fortunate to have the support of all of you.