Yard Sale Queen I Am Not

First I want to say HUGE thank-you to everyone who helped with our Fundraiser Yard Sale!  I want to say a special thank you to 

• my Aunt Kim who let us overrun her yard, garage, and house for 3 weeks.
• Tonya who was my "accountant" and helped keep me sane.
• My husband who helped load, un-load, and re-load all kinds of stuff
• Jonathon and Trevor who set-up, took-down, and carry-off all the stuff(also be the go-fors)
• My parents who stored stuff in their garage for us and came to help out
• My grandparents-in-law who let us borrow tables for the event
• Everyone who donated items!!!!
• Everyone who stopped by to see us and bought stuff!
• Everyone that wished us luck for a successful yard sale!

We had our Adoption Yard Sale last weekend and yesterday. It was very successful!  I am very tired and my house is a wreck but all in all everything is good.  We are so thankful to everyone who donated items and have been so supportive of us.  I don't know what I would do without you!  

In other adoption news: We are waiting for our home study to be finalized. Right now our Adoption Agency is reviewing and making corrections to it.  So hopefully it will be done in the next couple of weeks and we can move onto the next step.  I was hoping to have paperwork in Poland by start of Summer, but as it looks it may be fall before it gets there. As I have been learning we have to be flexible and patient with this.  Which is easier said than done. 

Today is Mother's Day and I want wish  my awesome Mom who is always my BIGGEST FAN a wonderful day!

I too want to wish my Mom a wonderful and happy Mother's Day. Love you, Sean.

 

Sometimes You Can't Help It

We are all done with Home Study visits...YAY!  We are now waiting for the home study to be finished up.  I want to have all this paperwork done so badly.  The home study is a big chunk of it but now we have to fill out an I800A(Application for Determination of Suitability to Adopt a Child from a Convention Country) and have to get our dossier to Poland.


I have been reading a book about toddler adoption and a section of that book mentions how adoptive mothers can feel left out of the so called "mommy club".  It is so true and nice to know that your not the only mom-to-be who has felt that way.  Any mother wants to start buying things for their little one right from the get go but when you are waiting for a referral you can't really buy to many things.  You don't know what size clothes they will need and for us if we are getting a boy or girl(or maybe 2).  However, a couple of weeks ago I bought two diaper bags. I couldn't help myself I had to buy something.  I have been waiting semi-patiently for my bags to get here.  So here they are:

 The small bag

 Large Bag

I love these bags! I can not wait to have them full of sippy cups, toys, and extra clothes!  I have been buying children books but its something about buying things like diaper bags and hopefully soon clothes that makes it seem like this really happening.  It reassures you that you will have your child in your arms one day.