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Birthday presents for baby and me

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I recently celebrated my 30th birthday. This year we asked our family and friends not to give us gifts for birthdays and Christmas, but to instead give us the money they would have spent on gifts to go in our adoption fund. Everyone has been really great about it, but it sometimes gets boring just writing cards and checks. So, my sister and parents decided to get sneaky. They hid the checks in presents for the baby! My mom bought us a beautiful, handmade baby sling, with a satin Asian print on one side and cotton yellow and pink daisies on the other. And my sister found the cutest little maryjanes in an Asian print. Joel got a great Sandra Boynton board book wrapped around his birthday check from my sister (Oh My Oh My Oh Dinosaurs!). There was one “check carrier” that was just for me, my folks got me a hot pink skin for my Razr phone 😉

Thanks for all the fun stuff, best 30th ever! Here are some pics of the shoes and sling:

Shoes from Kate’s sisterSling from Kate’s mom

Sorry for the Silence

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Hi All,

Things have been pretty quiet since the garage sale and we haven’t had much to put up on the blog. But here’s just a quick update as to where we are in the process. We have almost completed the first round of paperwork. Our last letter of reference is on it’s way to the agency, our employment letters are done, we’ve finished all of our book reports and questions, we got our passports and other vital records. We’re waiting for my first check for this school year to come so I can fill out our financial report with the proper information, our criminal background, and our medicals. These should all be complete by October 12th. Once that happens, we can start the home study process, woo hoo! We are getting closer everyday.

Thanks to everyone who has been so supportive. We’ll keep you posted as things progress!

Arthur Adoption Episode

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One of the people on our Yahoo group told us about an episode of the PBS show Arthur where Arthur’s friend Binky goes through the China adoption process with is family. We DVR’d it and it was really great. They handled the many phases of international adoption, questions people may ask, and the difficulties of an older sibling coping with the change amazingly well. So, a big huzzah to the creators of Arthur. Really great work folks!

Garage Sale Success!

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The garage sale was a HUGE success! We were able to raise enough money to cover our home study fees and our I-600a fees. Amazing! We had tons of support from friends and family, and strangers as well. Two people showed up, one Saturday and one Sunday, and said they’d seen the Craigslist ad and wanted to donate goods to the sale! Lots of people donated money and many told us to keep the change.

On top of being a great success, we had a lot of fun. We had a lemonade stand run by the hostess’s twin girls on Saturday and by my nieces Sunday. Super cute. My folks bought us all pizza (thanks!) and lots of friends and family stopped by.

In the end we were really tired and really happy. A completely good adventure.

Thanks again to all of you who helped, donated, stopped by, and/or sent us good vibes.

[flv:/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/garage_sale_flyby.flv 320 240]Here is a “flyby” video of everything we had for sale on Saturday morning. As you can see, it was a biggie. (Soundtrack by The Beastie Boys)

Garages sale 2.0

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We tried to get everything priced tonight, we barely got everything unpacked before it got dark! Crazy! Saturday is the big day, I can’t wait to see if we get lots of customers, and hopefully they’ll buy stuff! Ok, it’s bed time. More after the sale!