It's A Sunshine Day!

For you Brady Bunch fans, sing it with me, "It's a Sunshine Day, everybody's smilin', sunshine day!" What a difference a few days makes! Saturday morning it was snowing, now it's as beautiful as it can be with temperatures in the 70's! Praise the Lord!

Everything seems to be much better around here! My new babysitting kids are just as precious as they can be and will be starting tomorrow! What a blessing! We got new shelves put in the closet in the office/arts and crafts room, so I can start organizing and putting away all the stuff I have taken out of Ryleigh's new room and the napping room. Now all I have to do is find the time to accomplish this feat of finding all the odds and ends a new home (that I can remember when the time comes to find something!!).

We had a conference call for GWCA Regional Officers on Saturday. It was looooooong, but it's always good to have a refresher course in how to help families. We had one couple come to our workshop, which was a total, but very nice, surprise! They were very friendly and I am praying that this option works for them. My heart just goes out to those couples who have been married for 10+ years and haven't had any luck conceiving. I hope we did a good job of showing them what a beautiful option Chinese adoption is!

I am feeling better about the wait for Reese. I cannot fall into the trap of reading negative feelings and people who are really angry and upset about it. The wait is what it is and I know that after that wait I will be a mother of 3 wonderful daughters and our life will never be the same! It will be that much better! The four of us have been hanging around the dinner table lately and just being goofy after we eat. Reagan has been cracking us all up with her funny expressions and then Ryleigh will say the funniest comments. We are such nerds, but I wouldn't trade these family moments for anything! It makes me feel so awesome when we take time out of the "rat race" to just be together. I hope my girls will remember those times forever! I am anxious for Reese to join us in all of our craziness!

One of my yahoo groups is challenging ourselves to walk to China before our referral (as a group). So, we have thousands of miles to go from Austin (where GWCA headquarters is) to Beijing. It will be a fun excuse to get back into shape! I am looking forward to a lot of other cyber activities with other waiting families!