Sunday, September 30, 2007

Joe leaves for Kuwait today


Today Joe leaves WI for Kuwait. Bye honey. We love you and we miss you. Stay safe.
(Joe is the one with the coffee cup)

September Cyber Shower Thank You





We would like tho thank the Clutter family in WI for the beautiful gifts they sent to Chloe Paige. I have been wanting this CD for the longest time, so thank you so much. I love the soft blanket and cute PJ's, and I can't wait to hold my little girl all wrapped up in them both. Thank You!

Saturday, September 22, 2007


Blaine's school made Joe a Thank You/Welcome Home/Good Luck/We are praying for you card.

Daddy's Home

Monday, September 17, 2007

Blaine and Chloe's Daddy








My husband will get to come home for a few days at the end of this week before he heads off to Iraq later this month. He has been in trainig in WI since June, and Blaine and I are looking forward to getting to see him one last time. Here are some pictures of Blaine and Chloe's daddy, preparing to leave for WI in June, and pictures of his BN training.

Friday, September 14, 2007

I can't believe it has been 10 months since we were logged in at the CCAA, and we still are no closer to referral than were were when we started this journey. One of the reasons we decided on China was that the wait times (at the time) were less than a year. Here we are two months from being logged in for an entire year and we are still about two years away from seing our baby girl's face. The worst part is that I don't think people actually believe we are adopting from China and that we just made it up. No one askes us about our adoption anymore and when they do we get this look of pity. I don't even mention to anyone when I purchase things for our little girl anymore because I just get that same look. We will have a daughter one day people, and I am going to continue to be happy about it and prepare for it because eventually it will happen!
It is beginning to sound like I am losing it a little bit doesn't it? So what if I am?!? (haha, joke, your supposed to laugh)

Sunday, September 2, 2007

Just 4 months!

I was just reading the Rumor Queen site to see if referrals were on their way, and her latest post just made me very sad. The CCAA has only referred 4 months worth of LID's within the past year. As of Sept. 1st, 2006, the CCAA had referred through July 22nd 2005, and as of Sept. 1st, 2007, the CCAA had referred through Nov. 21st, 2005. That is only 4 months. At this rate, we will be waiting another 3 years for Chloe, on top of the time we have already waited for her (see bottom of page for total wait time). If Joe were not going to Iraq at the end of this month we would be redoing all of our paperwork right now and just adopt domestically again, or just switch countries. Something, anything, I can't just sit around waiting for things to happen anymore. Why is it so hard for us to expand our family? I am a damn good mom, Joe is a damn good dad, and all we want is to have more children. Why is that so damn difficult? We have been trying to add a child to our family since Blaine was 6 months old. 4.5 years we have been waiting for a second child. It isn't supposed to be this hard. I guess I should just be happy to have been blessed with Blaine. I have no idea how those first time waiting parents do it. I would never consider waiting around on China if I were waiting for my first child. I had been so positive my daughter was in China. I felt so drawn to China, and was positive that our next child was waiting for us there. Oh, I'm not complaining about not being able to have biological children. Biology means nothing to me. I could care less that I need medical intervention to conceive. I love Blaine more than anything, and I couldn't love him more if he came from me. I just want another child. We have room in our hearts and in our lives for another child, and we have so much to offer another child. Poor Blaine is so smothered by my love and attention, he could use a sibling to offset all of those kisses and love and attention that he gets.
OK, I am done with my rant and I feel better now. There is nothing I can do until Joe gets home, so I will just wait and see how things go between now and July 2008. If there is not a speed up in the process by then, we are jumping ship (oh, by the way, Joe and I have already discussed it, and he is totally on board, he wants another child as much as I do).