I Love My Secret Pal!

My Secret Pal is awesome, but I appear to be technically challenged here b/c I cannot get my pictures in the correct direction. Secret Pal, you always make us feel so special with your generous and fun presents. This one was super special because not only was it eco-friendly, but it had a swatch of fancy smancy fabric. Love it!!!!! Thanks so much Secret Pal!!!

Grandma Drama Mama

Last week we had a super special surprise. When I stopped by Drama Mama's house to say hello, there was something special waiting for us. Miss Kim had told her mom all about Baby Sissy and her special quilt and her mom went all out sending her special wish for Baby Sissy.

These fabrics are incredible, but my favorite is the one with all of the little kids on it of all nationalities - including a little Asian darling. On top of the great fabrics is a super super crafty page with fabric samples and a wonderful heartfelt wish. No wonder Miss Kim and the Drama Mama are so great, they have a great Mom/Grandma!

Thanks Grandma Drama Mama

Gotta love the fabric!

Baby Sissy received beautiful fabric from The Borman Family in Reno. They are part of my May 2007 LID group and we were just thrilled to receive this crafty wish and beautiful fabric! Aren't the colors fantastic? I can't wait to see how it looks when we put everything together. I have been completely humbled by the graciousness of families who take the time to contribute to this special tradition for Baby Sissy.

I'm Nervous....

...about what this week may bring. Rumor is a new shared list may hit the system this week. On top of that excitement we received a pretty innocuous email from our agency late Thursday night that has me eating my fingernails :)

Please say a little prayer for me this week that I can concentrate on what I need to concentrate on and that if a call does come that I don't freak out.

I am so behind on my blogging and I am going to try to catch up later tonight to fill this week. So many great things have happened. Oh, I and successfully finished week 1 of Turbo Jam. I celebrated with a gluttonous weekend in the mountains.

Turbo Jam!

This morning I started Turbo Jam. Ok, I really started it yesterday so I could see what it was but the official program starts today. For some time, I have wanted to get into better shape and I always have excuses for going to the gym. Well, the infomercial got me this time and I ordered it. The first day is only a 15 minute program and my fingers are literally sweating as I type this :) I wanted to post about it so that you all held me to completing the program. It's an initial 8 weeks so I will let everyone how it goes. These are my before pictures. Ha, I wish. Maybe these would be my after pictures. I am blond :)

I have so much to post from this weekend. I was running around all weekend, but so many great things happened. I look forward to showing you all the wonderful things that my Secret Pal sent to Baby Sissy, some new fabrics that my Yahoo group sent, and Uncle Jeff's graduation. I wasn't able to do my weekly posts over the weekend like I usually do, so I may not be that great this week for updating the blog!

Boy, Yesterday Was Tough

Yesterday families from my agency announced the referrals that they received off of the paper list sent to my agency a couple of weeks ago. The kids are all adorable, but there is this one that really jumped out at me. Why...Because she fit our profile except for age. When a family fills out their MCC they put an age range. This little one was 3 months older than our age range so she went to a family 6 months behind us in the MCC line. She is adorable and I am sure that her family is over the moon. Selfishly, it was just so hard to look at her pictures because we too would have been over the moon with her referral. Hubbs got upset and wanted to know why the agency wouldn't have called us about her, but its really our fault for setting the age limit as we did. We can only hope that this is all designed to bring us to the child that we were meant to parent.

Congratulations to those families that can finally announce their referrals! Oh and if anyone is looking for an older girl, our agency has a STUNNING 12 year old girl that I would love to see get a home.

Call Sign "Little Mrs."

I had a comment this morning on the blog and at first glance I didn't realize who it was....but, then I realized it was from Emma in Australia (a.k.a The Little Mrs.). She has own Yahoo "call sign" and posted a comment on the blog. We are so excited!

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To The Little Mrs.,

Your mum emails me all of the exciting news of your adventures in Tumba. I heard that you got to meet the lady who built the Wiggles Big Red Car. Did you ask her if she knows Jeff - he is my favorite? The Minnie Mr. is saving his money to come see you. Mr. Mike said that he misses his little "Butter Bean." We miss you and love you so much!!!

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Hugs, Miss Ashley