2010 has arrived! our year has started off with a bang. we rang in the new year with some great friends at our annual new year's eve party. following the fun and celebrations of the holidays, we had to go through some tough days...first off my mom had a bit of a health scare and had to spend a night in the hospital! she fainted at church and they took her to the emergency room and wanted to do some observations on her to make sure nothing was wrong with her heart. she passed all of their tests with flying colors and found out that she just has an inflamed muscle in her back. (i say just, but she is having quite a bit of pain with it and is now going to physical therapy - we can share PT stories now! i was just relieved everything with her heart was ok.) last saturday my uncle darrell (my mom's brother) passed away after a long battle with several illnesses. it was sad to hear the news, but we all know he is in a much better place now - walking and talking again and hanging out with his brothers and family that have gone before him. funerals are never fun, but it was wonderful being able to see so much of my mom's extended family again. we were able to reconnect with many of our cousins and reminisce about lots of fun memories. we were also able to share details of our adoption journey with family members that hadn't heard about it. and, even better, we found out that my cousin jeff's daughter kelly and her husband drew live very close to us and would be interested in babysitting for our baby someday! yay! we're looking forward to meeting up with them soon.
i am preparing to email bettina all of our dossier information next week (we're still waiting on the fbi fingerprint report, but i've heard that this process is now taking around 10 weeks...it's been about 7 weeks since i sent our's in) so she can begin the review process. ginger, my 'office mom', just renewed her notary license so i can have her help me finalize a couple of our documents. what a process to have complete!
time for me to sign off and start cleaning. cheers to 2010!
ang
i chose shaker beige as a neutral color that we will coordinate with either boy or girl bedding...i've decided that i've waited so long for our baby that i am not going with neutral bedding! now the search begins for the perfect set (and one that we can both agree on). 
