Stashing money

I found out today Daddy has been stashing away money. Ok ok, he's been putting money aside. I didn't know about this and was worried about why he was stashing money away when we are putting money aside for the adoption.

He said he's been putting money aside the past few months so that at the end of this month he can get new tires on my car.

YAY!!!!!!! My car has needed new tires since we got new tires 2 years ago. I am SO excited!

I better go. We're off to our friends to celebrate Little Man's birthday.

Here's an oxymoron for you

Patiently waiting.

I'd be lying if I said I was patiently waiting. I submitted the last part of our formal application on Sunday and am eagerly waiting for our agency to get the ball rolling. I'm eager for more paperwork, interviews, and most of all I need to go to the doctor (nothing serious I need to get my heart listened by my doc and want to get it done with) and want the paperwork so I can get everything done at once.

Our agency has added a couple more children waiting for their forever families. Boy are they cute! I showed a picture of a little boy to Daddy and his not so enthusiastic reply was 'Oh, he's cute.' Fine, never mind. I think he has his heart set on a daughter. I honestly hope not that it deters him from any little boys that could possibly be our future child.

I'm so thankful to our friends who have offered to be our references. I can not describe how scared I was to ask. I know they are our friends and would do anything but it is so humbling to ask someone to talk about your life and all that you do. The raising of our child and our spirituality. I'm so in awe over my friends and feel I should tell our social worker we are honored to have them as our friends.

And the countdown is on to Little Man's 3rd birthday. I can NOT believe he is going to be 3. Words cannot express how much love I have for him. The joy, the laughter that come from him is contagious. I love his love for books, Thomas the tank engine, and cars. And be careful, if you come into our home there may be a dinosaur lurking ready to RAWR!

Fireworks

One of the things I look forward to in the summer is watching the fireworks over the bay in Grand Marais, MN. Once we watched the fireworks right on the rocks on Lake Superior in Tofte, MN (right in front of Daddy's grandma's house). Note, I said once. I didn't like it. Amateurs light them off and it just isn't safe. I use to joke that it's more fun watching the people who are setting the fireworks off than it is watching the fireworks because it's like they don't know what they are doing. One year in Grand Marais we watched one guy almost get badly hurt. That wasn't funny.

I'm glad we didn't go up this year. Click here to watch what happened. I'm glad no one got hurt.

New Law

There's a new law that goes into effect July 1st. All kids under the age of 8 or 4 foot 9 inches tall need to be in a booster seat.

I seriously have a problem with this law. Where are my rights as a parent? If I as a parent think my child doesn't have to be in a booster at 8 years old I should have a right not to put them in one. Why do I need the government to tell me how to raise my child? Bad enough I need them in my life determining how fit I am adopt a child and now they are making decisions for me too?

What about my sister who's barely 4 foot 11 inches tall. She's barely 4 foot 9 by the time she was in the 7th grade. So she's suppose to be in a booster seat at the tender age of 13 because her genetics place her in the short group?

I have so many issues with this. I will not force my child to be in a booster seat when he is 8. The government needs to spend less time trying to tell us American's what we can and can't do by all these laws and spend more time trying to create jobs.

And so it begins

What's with this? I dropped off our paperwork on Friday and I'm already itching to buy stuff. We going international this time around. We know our next child will be over a year (and under 3) by the time we bring he/she home. So why do I feel the urge to go out and by everything in sight? Clothes, shoes, toys, and we haven't even started the homestudy yet! I figured this time around would be different. The first time we knew we'd be placed with an infant. So we needed bottles, bibs, onesies, car seat, a stroller, toys, wipes, changing table, high chair and many other things. This time we don't need all that. Ok maybe diapers. We have 2 car seats (one in each car and can easier use the 2nd one for our future child).

I found myself asking Daddy if we can buy a shelf for our next child. Of course he gave me 'the look'. Which is the look I got the last time we were waiting and wanted to buy everything under the sun.

Hopefully I can hold myself back and not buy anything until we're matched. :)

Potty advice from a toddler

Little Man and I were getting ready to leave so we could stop by our adoption agency and drop off our formal application for adoption #2. (EEEEEeeeee!!!)

Little Man went potty first and I told him to throw his pull up (he had just woken up from a nap) away while I go to the bathroom. He happily runs out of the bathroom and then yells...

'Don't forget to hold your wee-wee down!'

Um...we'll need to have an anatomy lesson when he's older. ;)

Who are you?

My blog is semi private. Semi meaning it's not posted out there in internet land and it's not private where you need to give me your email address to have access to read.

I can see who logs and reads my blog. I know who each isp name belongs too.

Except one. It's ISP is unknown and this scares me. Why must you be unknown? What are you hiding? I don't mind you reading my blog but I'd like to know about you too.

I see you were on yesterday at 8:19pm. On the 23rd you were on at 9:15pm. June 22nd you were on at 7:01pm, the 21st at 8:51am (I feel honored you were bored enough at work to be reading my blog). On the 20th you were on twice at 12:03 pm (I'm thinking you were on lunch that day) and 4:54pm.

I'll stop there. You get the drift. So please post a comment and introduce yourself. I won't post it. I'd just like to know who you are so when I see the unknown ISP I can think to myself 'Hey that's Jane!' or 'Aw, Barb was on today. I hope she had a great day.'

Thanks in advance.