Comfort shoes......

I know we have quite a wait ahead of us before we can bring home our daughter from China, and I'm trying very hard not to just go nuts and buy a lot of stuff, get her room ready, and pick out a name, but..... aren't these the sweetest little shoes?

I have them on my bedside table as a daily reminder of her presence in our future.

Addicted.... but only a little!

It all started January 2007. My mom, my sister, and I went to a Bare Escentuals boutique in Charlotte, NC in celebration of my birthday. From that day forth....... we've had a bit of a "problem." Maybe it's the pretty packages, maybe it's all the beautiful colors, or possibly it's just the wonderful performance of this make-up, but we can't seem to get enough. So it goes without saying that when we had the chance to meet the creator and CEO of Bare Escentuals, we were there!


Oooh, so exciting!


This is my sister, my mom, me, and Leslie, CEO of B.E.

I've always loved cosmetics. I mean after all, I did attend Cosmetology school from 1995-2000......um, on and off! (Beauty School drop-out!) However, I didn't think that I had that much of a B.E. problem, until I started stacking all of the little jars up.



Wow. But of course........ I'm worth it. (or something like that!)

The Great Wall..........hurdle.

What a long way to go......... But last night, we applied to an agency to begin our CHINA adoption!!!!!



Big NEWS! Hugeeeeeee!!!! I'm so so so very excited! I know that it will be a very long wait, but simply starting this journey to having a family is such a relief, so very exciting, so hopeful, so comforting, and so wonderful! We hope for many miracles; we need much prayer; we rest in the knowledge that we are moving toward our daughter.

Eeeeeaster eggs and bunny ears....

LOOK! Me in a dress! Well.... not really, it's a skirt, but STILL!


I don't know why my Easter outfits always have to be black...ish.



Marc and I colored easter eggs with Laney and Charlie. (my niece and nephew.)







My sister's birthday was last week. We took some fun pictures with Bmama. (my 88 year "old" grandmother)



(notice my sister putting devil ears on Bmama.... as if!)


And I taught Laney how to make bunny ears. (She's four...and it took a lot longer than I would have thought!)







And..... most of all.... I've been avoiding doing anything, even blogging because I've had this hanging over my head.



Yes, that's right. That is about .... oh, I'd say six to seven loads of clean clothes. I have been putting off putting up the clothes for almost three weeks now.

You know, I really don't mind doing laundry. I love the smell of Tide....and of fabric softeners, and fabric sheets. I like to clean out the lint trap on the dryer. AAACK! Dusty! I even fold the clothes straight out of the dryer. The freshly cleaned clothes, neatly folded in the laundry baskets, even make it up three flights of stairs to our bedroom.........

but I HATE..... I repeat.... LOATHE to put the clothes up.

I don't know why, I just do. It's not that bad once I get started. I think it has something to do with the actual process that I make myself go through. You see, I must make the bed and then sort the clothes into separate piles depending on where they go. (underwear piles, sock piles, hanging clothes piles, and so on and so forth....) It's enough to make anyone MAD. And I can't just put up one basket. NO. I must wait until all of the laundry is clean before I make my epic journey to put it up.

So finally..... after putting this off for two weekends, tonight ....... I put up the laundry.



(ALAS!) But then I realized that there is still a load in the washer and also one in the dryer. Hmmmmmm. Maybe I can wait until next week to put those up.