So I joined a yahoo group for Americans adopting overseas and I am learning how challenging it can be but also that it can be done! The paperwork and the costs seem overwhelming (even more so than usual) but I am heartened to learn that it may be an option after all! I need to call Gladney this week to see what their take is on it but if they are unable to help me continue with my adoption, it appears that there are other agencies that can!! I am so excited. Cause if I cannot adopt from abroad it may be three long years before I meet my child and I don't know if I can wait that long. I want to live abroad and I want to adopt and I won't be completely happy and fulfilled unless I have the opportunity to do both. Wish me luck!
Meanwhile, I am continuing to complete the paperwork for my homestudy. I need to get it done in the next couple of weeks so it can be approved and have whatever I can take with me to Manila. I'll just add that to the list with what to do with my house, car, furniture, preparing for the move, taxes, doctors appointments...
3.31.2008
3.29.2008
Tagged!
I was tagged by Haze to post 10 Random Things about myself.
Here are the rules:
Choose 5 people to tag and a reason you chose each person (can be totally nonsensical.) Leave them each a comment directing them to your blog so they know they are it. You can't tag the person who tagged you. As a courtesy to the person who tagged you, please let them know when you have posted so they can have the sheer delight and extra work load of reading your answers.
Hmm... gosh, let's see....
1. In high school my friends entered me into a banana eating contest. I came in second even though I ate like eight bananas in a minute. Yuck. I don't even really like bananas. (peer pressure)
2. I read Coming of Age in Mississippi when I was in the third grade because my 16 year old sister had just read it. Can we say inappropriate? Too many adult themes that I didn't understand.
3. I took voice in high school. I loved it. When I was in Rome with my family, my mother convinced me to sing an Italian aria for the owner of the pensione.
4. When I press on my left eye I get an instant headache. I just went to the ophthalmologist to figure out why. He was just as baffled. :-/
(have another appt. on Wednesday)
5. I just watched An Officer and a Gentleman (for the hundredth time) and cried. Pathetic, I know, but I am a die-hard romantic!
6. I lived in St. Thomas for 10 months in my early twenties. I worked in a touristy T-shirt shop during the day and cocktail waitressed at night. I loved it and would have stayed longer but my mother told me to come home and get a "real" job.
7. I applied to be on The Amazing Race with my cousin. I love that show!!! Unfortunately we didn't even get an interview. But I am about to have my own international adventure, so it's all good. Oh!!! But I recently found out there is an Amazing Race Asia and I can view both in the Philippines! Hearing that made my day!
8. I love chocolate and vanilla mixed. Fudge? Too rich and chocolately. Vanilla milkshakes? Boring. But anything with the mix is great in my book--chocolate cupcakes with white icing, Oreo milkshakes, Milanos, chocolate chip cookies with just few small chips, Oreo or chocolate chip ice cream, etc. Bring it on!!!
9. I love old school hip hop: Biggie, Eric B, MC Lyte, Grandmaster Flash, Whodini, Nice and Smooth, Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, LL, EPMD, Doug E. Fresh, etc. Back when the beat and the tracks were bangin' and the lyrics didn't spew misogyny and violence. :-/
10. There's almost nothing that a nap can't fix. Love my naps.
Now, who to tag? Gosh, I'm such a blog stalker and read sooo many blogs but most of them have already been tagged! OK, but since Haze said I had to tag 5 folks, I'll tag Jennifer because she might appreciate a fun post to write to take her mind off the the long wait for Holly, ZZ's mommy cause ZZ is just so darn cute, Bek cause she is just so darn funny!! ...and that's all. (lame, I know~I can't think of two more. These three people don't even know me and probably think I'm crazy for even tagging them!)
Here are the rules:
Choose 5 people to tag and a reason you chose each person (can be totally nonsensical.) Leave them each a comment directing them to your blog so they know they are it. You can't tag the person who tagged you. As a courtesy to the person who tagged you, please let them know when you have posted so they can have the sheer delight and extra work load of reading your answers.
Hmm... gosh, let's see....
1. In high school my friends entered me into a banana eating contest. I came in second even though I ate like eight bananas in a minute. Yuck. I don't even really like bananas. (peer pressure)
2. I read Coming of Age in Mississippi when I was in the third grade because my 16 year old sister had just read it. Can we say inappropriate? Too many adult themes that I didn't understand.
3. I took voice in high school. I loved it. When I was in Rome with my family, my mother convinced me to sing an Italian aria for the owner of the pensione.
4. When I press on my left eye I get an instant headache. I just went to the ophthalmologist to figure out why. He was just as baffled. :-/
(have another appt. on Wednesday)
5. I just watched An Officer and a Gentleman (for the hundredth time) and cried. Pathetic, I know, but I am a die-hard romantic!
6. I lived in St. Thomas for 10 months in my early twenties. I worked in a touristy T-shirt shop during the day and cocktail waitressed at night. I loved it and would have stayed longer but my mother told me to come home and get a "real" job.
7. I applied to be on The Amazing Race with my cousin. I love that show!!! Unfortunately we didn't even get an interview. But I am about to have my own international adventure, so it's all good. Oh!!! But I recently found out there is an Amazing Race Asia and I can view both in the Philippines! Hearing that made my day!
8. I love chocolate and vanilla mixed. Fudge? Too rich and chocolately. Vanilla milkshakes? Boring. But anything with the mix is great in my book--chocolate cupcakes with white icing, Oreo milkshakes, Milanos, chocolate chip cookies with just few small chips, Oreo or chocolate chip ice cream, etc. Bring it on!!!
9. I love old school hip hop: Biggie, Eric B, MC Lyte, Grandmaster Flash, Whodini, Nice and Smooth, Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, LL, EPMD, Doug E. Fresh, etc. Back when the beat and the tracks were bangin' and the lyrics didn't spew misogyny and violence. :-/
10. There's almost nothing that a nap can't fix. Love my naps.
Now, who to tag? Gosh, I'm such a blog stalker and read sooo many blogs but most of them have already been tagged! OK, but since Haze said I had to tag 5 folks, I'll tag Jennifer because she might appreciate a fun post to write to take her mind off the the long wait for Holly, ZZ's mommy cause ZZ is just so darn cute, Bek cause she is just so darn funny!! ...and that's all. (lame, I know~I can't think of two more. These three people don't even know me and probably think I'm crazy for even tagging them!)
3.26.2008
Easter 2008
I went to Pittsburgh for Easter.
One of our annual traditions is making a lamb cake.
Here I am with the cake mold.
Yum! Crumbs!
Here's my mom with the cake after successfully removing it from the mold.
The finished cake with chocolate chip eyes, sitting in pink jelly beans!
Here's a video of my mom explaining why we make a lamb cake.
(turn down music below to hear better)
One of our annual traditions is making a lamb cake.
Here I am with the cake mold.
Yum! Crumbs!
Here's my mom with the cake after successfully removing it from the mold.
The finished cake with chocolate chip eyes, sitting in pink jelly beans!
Here's a video of my mom explaining why we make a lamb cake.
(turn down music below to hear better)
3.17.2008
Babysitting
I finally figured out how to upload video. Here's my little neighbor at my house. So cute!!
(Now if I could only figure out how to upload video from my computer--in Quicktime-- to Youtube. Anyone know how that's done?? Maybe it would be quicker. Posting this took hours for it to upload!)
** update ~ I figured it out. Hopefully posting from Youtube is quicker. I'll try and see.
(Now if I could only figure out how to upload video from my computer--in Quicktime-- to Youtube. Anyone know how that's done?? Maybe it would be quicker. Posting this took hours for it to upload!)
** update ~ I figured it out. Hopefully posting from Youtube is quicker. I'll try and see.
3.13.2008
3.11.2008
Final Home Study
I'm back. I decided that since I am still adopting I need to still keep writing with updates. Although I started another blog with my Manila adventures, this one can still be used to report on my adoption progress.
Last Friday I had my final home study. It did not go so well. For one, my friend was supposed to meet with my social worker (she's one of my references) and she never showed up. She is hands down the most reliable person I know and she had an emergency but I don't think the SW was too happy about it. He said he would meet with her later and not to worry about it, but he seemed a bit perturbed. He did tell me though that he knows of many families who adopt while living abroad and gave me a website to check out more on that, so that was positive. I know I made the right decision to hold off on adopting for at least one year, but it is really hard to think that I may not get a child from Ethiopia now which my heart was so set on. My life is so topsy turvy and all over the place but I know it's the life I was meant to have. In the end, I want to have lived it fully so this detour is all part of the divine plan.
So I will continue to update on this blog on what's going on in my life before I move in four months...if anyone is still reading!
Last Friday I had my final home study. It did not go so well. For one, my friend was supposed to meet with my social worker (she's one of my references) and she never showed up. She is hands down the most reliable person I know and she had an emergency but I don't think the SW was too happy about it. He said he would meet with her later and not to worry about it, but he seemed a bit perturbed. He did tell me though that he knows of many families who adopt while living abroad and gave me a website to check out more on that, so that was positive. I know I made the right decision to hold off on adopting for at least one year, but it is really hard to think that I may not get a child from Ethiopia now which my heart was so set on. My life is so topsy turvy and all over the place but I know it's the life I was meant to have. In the end, I want to have lived it fully so this detour is all part of the divine plan.
So I will continue to update on this blog on what's going on in my life before I move in four months...if anyone is still reading!
3.07.2008
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