Happy New Year

Happy New Year to all our family and friends.
I can't wait to see what '09 will bring our family! Hopefully, there will be an extra place setting at our table sometime in the new year. However, if it takes longer, it takes longer.
We will wait for you!
Happy '09 baby Lauryn. We hope you are happy and healthy and heading home soon.
With lots of love and best wishes to all!
Bring it on '09!
xo

Santa is on his way to China

Hope you are tucked in and snoring baby Lauryn.
Santa's coming!

It's Christmas Eve in China!

Merry Christmas little one! Well, it's Christmas Eve in China! Baby Lauryn might not even be in the world yet. However, where ever you are little one, please know that you have a family all away around the world that thinks of you daily!
Holiday or no holiday, we are thinking of you and counting each and everyday! Your Daddy bought you a party dress. Mommy bought you an ornament for our tree. Nana and Grandpa, and Grandma T are also awaiting your arrival. You have presents under their trees too! Lucky girl! You are part of the family. Born in our hearts!
We already love you, and can't wait to meet you. My dreams show me what you look like, my heart tells me you are waiting for us too.
We love you baby girl! Merry Christmas. Hope that 2009 will help you find your way home. Quickly!
Sweet dreams.

With lots of love,
Your waiting family
xo

To our family & friends:
Thank you all for your support. I hope that you and yours enjoy the wonder of the holiday. I hope that we don't take for granted our daily blessings and that 2009 is a plentiful, happy, healthy year.
With all our love and the best of wishes at this time of year and always.
Merry Christmas Eve Eve!
xo

Happy Birthday Nana to be!

Just a quick post to wish my Mom and Nana to be a very happy birthday.
May you have the best year ever! We love you more than you could ever know. You've been an inspiration for many! Thank you for teaching me to follow my heart. Thank you also for being our biggest fan through all the ups and downs of this adoption roller coaster.
We love you Mom!
We put our tree up today. Both Johnson and Peanut have curled up on the tree skirt... too cute. We thought that we were going to wait until Lauryn came home to decorate. But, decided today to pull everything out. It's beautiful and so nice to sit and look at. I love it!
It has been a pretty busy weekend. We got a LOT of snow. I mean a LOT! They are calling for more. Yikes, I don't know where we are going to put it.
Hope everyone is in the holiday spirit. Like it or not, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

We've got a new computer... does this post look different?

So today was a crazy day! This week has been really busy! I have been fighting a really bad cold, broke down and went to the clinic. Good news... the magic pills are working. I am feeling much better.
Today... we had a wonderful Christmas potluck lunch at work. It's a tradition, and a lovely one at that! Got a call from my darling husband to ask about our computer. It's been really acting up and today... it just gave up. So, after work I went out and bought a new computer. Certainly wasn't expecting that expense! But, we managed to get a pretty good deal. One of those don't pay until whenever things... works for me!
My dear friend came over and set us all up. Hence the post! We are back up and ready to roll! Thank goodness! Kyle was pretty freaked out. He works from home and our computer is his lifeline! So, we are all fixed up, and he is tucked into bed without the headache of lost files, missed emails etc. How did people work without home computers and blackberry's? Seriously!
What would we do without our dear friends?
Tomorrow night we will celebrate an early Christmas with Kyle's Grandma and her husband.
Things just keep rolling right along.
I don't know why but for whatever reason, Lauryn has been on my mind a whole lot. Yes, truth be told, I think of her often. But lately... much more than usual. I got an email from my sister in law saying how excited she is about the newest family member on her way. People seem to really be into this whole adoption thing. I love it. It warms my heart!
There is still the wait, and yes, it's a long long road. However, when our family and friends are making such an effort to make Lauryn apart of our holiday, the wait doesn't seem all that long.
I hope you and yours are enjoying the complete chaos of this season, and take time to realize that everyday brings you one step closer to your little one.
12 more days till Christmas!

The one year mark!

One year ago today we handed in our first application for adoption! We can't believe that it's already been a year. To think at the start of this path we're on we knew nothing! We were a little nervous, scared and totally excited. Now jump ahead 365 days and WOW! We have a little girl somewhere in China waiting to be matched with us. I really can't get over it. A very nice lady gave me a copy of the poem below. I can't think of a better way to celebrate our one year mark! We both know the wait will be long, but some how already a year has passed. We are that much closer to Baby Lauryn coming home. The door is open Lauryn, come on home!

Legacy of an Adopted Child
Once there were two women
Who never knew each other;
One you do not remember
The other you call "Mother"

Two different lives
Shaped to make you one;
One became your guiding star,
The other became your sun.

The first one gave you life,
And the second taught you to live it;
The first gave you a need for love,
The second was there to give it.
One gave you a nationality,
The other gave you a name;
One gave you talent,
The other gave you aim.
One gave you emotions,
The other calmed your fears;
One saw your first sweet smile,
The other dried your tears.
One sought for you a home
That she could not provide;
The other prayed for a child
And her hope was not denied.
And now you ask me
Through your tears
The age old question,
Unanswered through the years.

Heredity or environment~
Which are you a product of?
Niether ~ my darling ~ neither,
Just two different kinds of love!