Procrastination

Yes, I'm a procrastinator.  Always have been.  Hopefully I always won't be, but that's for another day :-).  Anyway, so I've started packing Darya's things.  I realized I didn't have a blanket for her. Well, I do have about a dozen blankets that my mom has made for the boys, but I didn't think something with trucks or baseball is what our girl needs. So rather than doing the quick thing and picking one up for her at Walmart or Target I decided to make one.  Yep, as if I should be sewing rather than the million other things I should be doing. But anyway, I found this tutorial for a minky blanket.  I also made two for some friends who are having boys, along with some tie applique onesies that I saw on this blog.  Here they are:

Pink minky with brown flannel - cozy!!

For my friend (there's another identical set for another friend)

Philippians 4:6

This is the verse that has come to mind countless times during this adoption process:

"do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God." Phil. 4:6 (ESV)

Any day now we should receive an email with our SDA appointment.  I am anxious and excited, and a whole bunch of other feelings.  I am having a hard time focusing on other tasks (I intended to get a jump start on homeschooling the boys last week, but alas they've only done one math lesson).  I need to make a list.  I think I work better off of lists. Number 1 on list: Get off the computer and write out a list.  :-)

Birds and baseball

The wall decals we ordered for Darya's room came in yesterday.  So last night Joel and I put it up and think it turned out really cute!  The fabric my mom will be making a bedspread/quilt for Darya will have some birds in it (using some of these fabrics: Valori Wells Nest Fabric) so thought the decal would go well with it.  It's fun to decorate girly!  Oh, and that cute soft pink teddy bear came from our dear friends, the McNeills who have 3 of the sweetest girls ever!  We are getting so close to our girl.  I am glowing with excitement that our dossier was submitted yesterday!

It was such a beautiful evening last night so I sat outside and watched the boys (including Joel), play their daily round of front-yard-baseball.  Here are some post-game shots:

The winners!

The tired first baseman

The teams (can't wait to get the "cheerleader" soon!!)

And exhale

Now I can breathe!  Our dossier was submitted to the SDA today!  Hopefully we'll get our travel date soon.  We will likely hear within 1-3 weeks with an appointment for anywhere from 10-30 days out.  So, at the absolute soonest (very unlikely) would be at the end of this month, but most likely it will be September.  Yay!

To clarify things about paperwork

Well, from my previous post (2 down from here) I thought I needed copies of our social worker's licence that was effective during our home visit.  Well, the SDA (or our facilitator) requires a copy of the license that was effective at the completion of the home study.  So, we had our home visit on April 26, her license was renewed on June 10, and the completed home study is dated June 30. So apparently since they are planning on submitting our dossier on Thursday that means that everything is okay!  I'm still holding my breath until we get an email saying it was submitted!

This Thursday!

I JUST got an email from Chris (our stateside helper), that we are scheduled to have our dossier submitted THIS THURSDAY!! That means within a couple of weeks from then we should receive our travel date!!  WOOHOOO!!!!

Now we're off to take the boys to Seaworld this afternoon. We'll call it a celebration trip :-)  What good news to get before we leave. (We got annual passes for Christmas and want to go one more time before Darya comes. We plan to take her too.  I think she'll like all the ocean critters!)