Mad Rush & Adoption Stuff

Leave it to me to leave things that I had all summer to do until the last week. That's the way I work best. Under pressure  . . . in a mad rush (hence the title).

I finally finished Andrew's second scrapbook today. I don't like scrapbooking. I'm not artsy crafty or creative, and to me, it's a chore. But I do it because the memories are worth keeping, and once it's finally done, I enjoy looking back. I let Andrew pick out the scrapbooks, and I guess this time around he was feeling the love for the ocean.

Now I just have to price all the stupid garage sale items, complete an online autism training that I've had since last April to do, and iron clothes (that's a never ending task). Thankfully, Andrew's much better so I shipped him off to school today. I'm a good mama that way. If someone would just come motivate to get my work done and make sure I'm not sitting on the couch watching the Olympics, looking at house plans, and reading that would be awesome! Any takers? 

Speaking of funny things Andrew says . . . This morning I was taking him to school, and he asked, "Mama, do we live in a town or a city?" I explained that we lived in a country town. Seeing as how we were driving past a pasture of cows, I felt this was fairly accurate. His response was, "I'm sure glad we don't live in a city because they're wild places. Especially at night. They get real wild then." I have no idea where this comes from. I would love to get inside his head sometimes.

I also promised I'd talk adoption stuff (again see the title), and I said "stuff" because frankly there's not much to update. Bulgaria (and most of Eastern Europe) is on summer vacation, and we are still waiting. Right before the break we did see quite a few referrals for young, "healthy" children so that's always good news. At the moment, we're waiting for USCIS to contact us to redo our fingerprints for immigration. That I really don't get. My fingerprints don't change so why the heck must I redo them yearly? Can't these people just run my prints again? 

Anyway, specific prayer requests (sure beats griping about fingerprints, right?). Please pray that our fingerprint appointments come at a good time (i.e. not on the first day of school or during "meet the teacher") and that Bulgaria speeds things up. At this point we're still looking at around 1.5-2 years to a referral. Then we make a trip and wait another six months to bring her home. Geeze, that's a long time. Also, pray that Allison is well taken care of and loved. While we'd love to be the ones loving on her, it always helps to think that someone somewhere is loving her. Also, pray for Andrew. It's really hard for such a little guy to wrap his mind around such a long wait. He asks everyday when his sister is coming home, and that's one of the hardest things for me. 

Thanks for all your prayers and support. And if anything major happens you'll be the second ones to know. ;)