"Just a dinner"

The other day our family got a new crib, for Kenzie's (our Chinese sister we are currently adopting) nursery. It is a very elegant, beautiful, unusual, white, Rosalia crib by Pali. Which meant that since we were putting together our new crib, I had to redo her room, but luckily we got rid of some "JUNK" from her room to make room for her new crib. And I was lucky enough to have the privalage to show our guests her (finished) room, while they were here for dinner. That day (which was yesterday, Saturday) we had one of my mom's (GOOD) friends and her son, daughter-in-law-to-be, and husband over for a delicious dinner of salad, lemon chicken, steak, green beans, potatoes, sausage, biscuits, and dessert, which was oreo pie. We also had some good fellowship with them. But... along with company, came cleaning the house. Which meant sweeping, mopping, cleaning the bathroom, cleaning the counters, cleaning our rooms, and of course just cleaning everything that was messy, along with taking down our Christmas stuff. Oh by the way, merry ("belated") Christmas!!! I just think that it was nice to eat dinner and talk with each other, while of course showing of our (clean) house. I'm just happy that Miss. Debby and our family will be able to get a baby from China, and I hope that we get what we requested. Althouugh we wouldn't mind getting somebody we didn't request. Waiting...

"Years go by fast...."

I'm sure as you know that I mentioned a friend of ours who got her referral on my first post, yesterday in China, today our time, she got her little (two year old) boy. And although we won't get our referral till (MAYBE) August, it seems like it will only be a short amount of time till our travel, and then again, it doesn't. Now because of the extended wait that the CCAA has announced (due to so many requests and adopters), it'll be several months later than we thought. Then again that's without splitting every month in half. My mom doesn't really care. She says, "We'll get her when the time is right; there's a special baby picked out for us waiting to be adopted." Now when it comes to me, it's not that I really care, it's just that I'm sort of impatient, and I had a set time when we might get our referral. Now as for a friend of ours she says, "China should honor what they told us previously." By the way we went, shopping with her the other day. We went to: Babies-R-Us, the outlet mall (Carters, Claires,...), and a favorite of mine, Kid-to-Kid. It's like by some miracle that my mom clicked on her website,
she lived near us, she's friendly, and she moved into a house that we looked while searching for homes to move into. She's so nice, and my brother and sister love her. You could probably wake them up at 5:00 am and they would jump right out of bed if you told them that we were going to her house. and it's also by some miracle that we have a few things in common. You know, I wasn't really into this whole "adoption thing". You know I didn't mind having a new sister, but I didn't really start buying or looking at things for her, until I found out I was going to China. The other day in China my friend Ali (the family who just got their boy) got sick, poor Ali; she missed touring The Great Wall and The Forbidden City. i know it's kind of early (actually WAY early), but we're already searching for luggage, making packing lists, and searching for "care package" items. Years seem to go by extremely fast after something happens and even when nothing exciting happens and it's a regular day. I only hope that this LONG, and MISERABLE wait goes by just as fast.