Our Secret Pal is Revealed !!!

This month we all got to reveal ourselves to our October DTC Secret pals. I received this wonderful gift from my pal Jodi. She has been so generous and thoughtful with her gifts. This was what she sent to me this month. That beautiful blanket was handmade by Jodi. I will definitly treasure that. Also the book, Shaoey and Dot is a wonderful book by the Chapmans. It is the story of a ladybug who comes across a baby in China and follows her travels to find her forever family.

I can't wait to bundle little Katy in that blanket and read her this wonderful story in her room. The image of this keeps me going in this long wait.

As far as the wait is concerned, we are now at about 11-12 month wait. That means I won't get to see little Katy's face until early fall. I just hope she is home in time for Christmas. That would be the most precious gift i could ask for this year.

I would like to say a very big Thank You to my wonderful secret pal, Jodi. It is nice to finally put a name to the gifts i have received every month.

Our Kitchen is Almost Done

I know it has been awhile since I have posted, but we have been very busy in our little corner of the world.

We have been thinking of remodeling our kitchen for a few years now, and with all the delays in the adoption wait, we finally decided to do it. Our house was built by my grandparents about 60 years ago, and it is very sentimental to me. I have a hard time making any significant changes to it because I have very fond memories of growing up in this house. But now that we are having big changes in our life, we need our house to match that.

Our kitchen was split up into two rooms with this annoying half wall that blocked alot of sunlight and made the room really hard to manuver in. We decided to knock down the half wall and put in a french door out to our 4 season porch. What a difference. We are just about done. We are now waiting on our new countertops. They should be here in about another week. I hope. Below are some pictures of the before and after.


As you can see I still have a lot of painting to do, but i am almost finished. I will be sure to post pictures when the countertops are in and everything is painted.