Happy (?) Anniversary

Four (4!) years ago today our adoption paperwork was logged into the "system" in China. At that time, the wait to be matched with a child was somewhere around 12-14 months. We even took our time completing all the steps because we didn't it want it to happen TOO quickly.

Hah! Sometimes things don't go the way you've planned.

Bah! Sometimes it makes me mad.

Wah! Sometimes it makes me cry.

TaDah! Sometime it WILL happen.

Mamah! Sometime I'll hear that word from the daughter who is surely in existence now and waiting for her forever family.

Babah! Sometime Doug will hear that word too.

Hoorah! Sometime Rose will exclaim that she FINALLY get's to go get baby sister.

For all the inquiring minds... we might hear something in June. But every time I get my hopes up * SQUASH * down they go with some new twist mucking things up.

So there. The past 4 years in a nutshell.

Tah tah!

Spring things

Here's a poem that I enjoy that was written by my grandmother (even though we are well into April, not at the beginning).

April Prelude

by Jessie Goddard Broman

The air is full of April

And the days rejoice together;

The petaled trees are blowing

In the bluebird weather.

Willow-green and lilac

Tinge the misty rain -

April - April - April -

Chant the happy strain!

My little gardener planting seeds

Ta Dah! She did almost all of it by herself.

Ask the husband to do ONE thing (fix the support posts under the bed) and he takes advantage of the opportunity...or maybe he is just testing out his handiwork.

Heeeeeere birdy birdy! The resident mallard has taken to sitting on the roof, safe from Peaches. The branches are from a windy day last week.

Happy Earth Week!

My Pretty Princess

Dance photos (recital in May).