they won't stop

Today was measuring day the the Fair-Lee-Wu's. The big boys haven't been measured since last March. Steven has not grown at all, he's stuck at 5'10 and 3/4" (He can't wait to pass that 6 foot mark and now he's disparing that he wont'). Peter has grown 3 inches and is now at 5'9" (he just wants to be at least as tall as Steven, where ever that takes him). And Mr. Zachary was measured mid August, when he got here and has grown 2 inches and now is ALMOST 4 feet tall (half an inch off).

Today since it was hot, Zach put on some shorts from last summer. The waist fit fine, but the shorts are now mid-thigh (where I think shorts ought to be), so looking a bit short. Looking at the tag they are size 4, but were his favorite from last summer. They'll be fine for around the house. Time to clean out the closets and dressers and make the list of what is needed for the summer!!

The Latest Frenzy

Since our Log In Date (LID) for our dossier in China we have received 2 additional information packets from our adoption agency. These packets are released to us on line when we hit certain milestones in our process. The latest packet gives another time line break down, talking about things like Match Day. I finally just sent an e-mail to our agency to find out where we are, since we are not following the traditional path, waiting for a match with a healthy child. We have identified our special needs children and have our pre-approval. Our agency tells me that we are considered matched, so that means we could get our travel date in the next 5-8 weeks. WWHHAATT???? I'm not ready! Yesterday I moved my huge desk out of the office, since we are making that into Molly's room until she's bigger. When Mike got home from work, we ate early, he had to run up to the apartment house to fix a couple of things in one, and get a renewed lease signed at another. Then, like the great guy he is, he demolished the little half wall that had to come down, and framed up a new full wall. We fell into bed around 11:30, but feel good with our progress now. Tonight he will go to the home improvement store for drywall and by Thursday at bedtime we should have both sides of the new wall drywalled. I can't wait to start to paint and make it ready for Molly!

Our Port-A-Pit

I feel very happy. I am always amazed at how things felt before verses feeling good. I never even know things are as bad as they are, until they aren't bad anymore. That being said (if any of you understood that), we had a very sucessful fundraiser on Saturday, and a big stress is removed from my shoulders. We struggled with how much chicken to order, we didn't want to run out, but really didn't want to be stuck with a bunch of chicken left at the end. We ended up ordering 500 chicken and 150 pit-tatoes, and they put some extra chicken on the truck (no charge if we didn't cook it) in case we were busy. And we were BUSY!! We ended up selling over 800 orders of chicken and sold out of the pit-tatoes before we were done. We only ended up bringing home about 45 orders of chicken, we didn't have time to eat on Saturday, so that was dinner, and we have frozen some for quick dinners when we get home from China and are adjusting back to our time zone (13 hour difference in time from China to here) and having Molly home with us. The very nice article done on us in the newspaper brought in a lot of business and we did a lot of advertising in town. We pre-sold 200 chicken and 90 pit-tatoe tickets. All that work getting the word out worked! Steven dressed up in a chicken costume and danced around like a fool, attracting attention to our location (sorry, I didn't bring my camera, so no pictures of that). Thank you to our friends and family who helped either by working our sale, buying chicken, donating, or sending us their prayers. It's all helping and we think we are now about half way to raising the money we need to finish the adoption. Thank you all!

They don't make them like they used to

For the last 2 weeks I have been doing a ton of sewing (or zo-ing as Steven used to call it. He loved to help Grandma zo). I've been making and selling these headbands for babies and kids and barettes too, as a way to raise more money for Zach's adoption. It's been a while since I have been so crafty and I have noticed that now they sure make the eye of the needles much smaller and harder to hit than they used to. And while I am on the subject, light bulbs just don't give off good enough light either for the detail work to be seen. I know for a fact it is a problem with these two tools, because I am not old enough for it to be MY problem.

Spring is here?!?!?!?!

Beautiful spring weather has arrived this week. Of course, it arrived last week too, only to be ended by snow. It was sunny, windy, and warm today. Loved it. Makes me want to get outside and get stuff done. Too bad I know that the snow could be back anytime, without warning for a while yet.

I forget

Sometimes I forget that parenting is a learned process. Sunday we came home from church with Zach not feeling well. He said his tummy hurt and he almost fell asleep in the car. I knew he was feeling bad when I suggested he go put on some comfy clothes like sweat pant or jammies, and he put on jammies. I have tried to get him to put on jammies when he didn't feel good before, and he always resisted. I then left him home with Mike for about 45 minutes while I ran a quick errand. When I got home, Mike was asking Zach if he liked that. "Liked what, honey?" "Oh, I let him try some of my pepper jerky" What?????? His tummy hurts, he's sick.......... "Oh, I guess I'll be cleaning it up if he gets sick, huh?" BINGO

When It Rains, It Pours

I hate Valentines Day. I never used to. In fact, Mike and I met on Valentines Day. That was the last good one I've had. Our first Valentine's together, we had our first big fight and almost broke up. The next year on Valentines Day, our Rental house was vandalized with $18,000 in damage. The following year, Mike's ex-wife sent him a big box of gifts and cards, which the mail lady delivered to the door and handed to me....... This year, my car was broken into while I was at work on Valentines Day. I think from now on we are going to hide from the world every Feb 14. We'll celebrate March 10 instead - our first official date.