Band performance last night

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Miles is taller than I am now.  We had to run out to Target like an hour before the performance last night because he had NO clothes that fit.  Like none.  Miles is ruining my clothes on a schedule idea.  He has changed pants sizes like 3 times since Christmas.  I can barely keep [...]

Before and after…

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I am in the process of phasing out black in our house.  I have a lot of white painted furniture and never tire of it.  But I have to say that after 5.5 yrs of living in this house, I have grown tired of the black painted pieces that I have so I have begun [...]

She was a bit sassy for the big day!

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But she eventually settled down (a tiny bit)…

It is official.  Mila Bella Mi-Jin Ellis is legally our daughter, forever.

I can not even begin to express how happy I am.  It was exactly three years ago that we started visiting adoption agencies.  More than [...]

So, today marks the end of a very busy couple of weeks…and now I can play Christmas!

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I met with our social worker today for our last check-up.  YAY!  The paperwork is in.  I just have to mail her 3 pics and we wait for our court date/finalization!  FABULOUS!  I feel like I can relax a bit now…ok, maybe after I take the family pic tonight and print the pics, I WILL [...]

Big News to Report…

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Saturday night we finished the adoption finalization package and yesterday I had it photocopied and we mailed it in to the local circuit court!!!

WOW!  Can I just tell you how happy I am to be done with that?

I AM SO VERY HAPPY!!!

Adoption is quite a long process.  I have found this last [...]

So, Mila is a very good sleeper…

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…some of the time.

I mean, she can sleep from 7pm to about 6am-ish when she isn’t too cold or her diaper isn’t too wet or she hasn’t had too much dairy or she isn’t teething or sick.  Did I mention she is teething now?  Yeah.  In the last week she has been up from [...]

Mila update:

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Ok it is about 3pm…9 hour to go!

We will leave for the airport at 10pm but she is still scheduled to come in at midnight!

I completely forgot about a small present for the escort…so I had to run around and do that.  Still need to write a thank you note…

I did find [...]

Mila Countdown:

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1 day to go!

Can you stand it?

I just want to take a minute to write down what I am thinking about right now.  Someday maybe Mila will look back at this because she wants to know what we were all thinking.  Mila’s foster mom is getting her ready for a long plane journey [...]

Mila Countdown

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2 days to go!

I am going to have 3 children in 2 days.  I can hardly believe it!  We have wanted a third child for so long and worked on this adoption for so long…I can hardly believe we are almost there!  It is strange because I have flashes of it feeling real but [...]

Mila Countdown:

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3 days to go!

I dreamed I was holding her and smelling her baby head.  Such a happy dream!

Need to work on cleaning today.  I feel off my schedule a bit after we got the call this week.