WE ARE OUT OF PGN!!!!!!!!!
The Guatemalan government legally considers us Grace's parents. Today the agency is getting the final signoff from the birthmother, then they need to get her birth certificate reissued with our last name...get her a passport...submit us to the US Embassy...take another DNA test...and then schedule our final appointment.
I can't believe we're really going to have another daughter.
I keep waiting for the agency to call and say it was a mistake...and they didn't mean to call us. It's really another family who got out.
It's surreal.
Our daughter is going to be home by Christmas...and probably by Thanksgiving...and maybe even by Halloween.
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Friday, August 17, 2007
Still haven't figured out how to title these damn things.
Nothing much exciting happening in our house. We spent a week at a cabin with my in-laws. My 5 year old is getting ready to start kindergarten. I'm not sure if he is having anxiety over it or what, but he has turned into a MONSTER lately. Seriously. The three year old isn't far behind.
I'm not a huge Dr. Phil fan, but I did watch my fair share during my last two pregnancies and combined (6 1/2) months of bedrest...and on one show he said "Nobody said being a parent is easy". Ain't that the truth. It's so easy to spoil the kids, and so much harder to make rules and stick to them...to let them know that their ARE consequences to their actions...and that the world does NOT revolve around them. I do take some measure of solace in the fact that even though I have to follow through on the threat to not take them to the movie if they don't behave, in the long run it's better for them. We went to the neighbors last night and the kids were standing on their couches...but did sit when we asked...BUT they also thanked the host for dinner with no prompting. It's times like that (the thanking not the couch standing.) that I think we're maybe doing an ok job.
No news on the Guatemala front yet. Supposedly we've been back in PGN for 3 1/2 weeks. I'm still not sure I believe it. We've spent about $30k on this adoption so far with no idea when we're going to bring our daughter home. It makes me absolutely sick to my stomach. Sometimes I don't think she's coming home...
Nothing much exciting happening in our house. We spent a week at a cabin with my in-laws. My 5 year old is getting ready to start kindergarten. I'm not sure if he is having anxiety over it or what, but he has turned into a MONSTER lately. Seriously. The three year old isn't far behind.
I'm not a huge Dr. Phil fan, but I did watch my fair share during my last two pregnancies and combined (6 1/2) months of bedrest...and on one show he said "Nobody said being a parent is easy". Ain't that the truth. It's so easy to spoil the kids, and so much harder to make rules and stick to them...to let them know that their ARE consequences to their actions...and that the world does NOT revolve around them. I do take some measure of solace in the fact that even though I have to follow through on the threat to not take them to the movie if they don't behave, in the long run it's better for them. We went to the neighbors last night and the kids were standing on their couches...but did sit when we asked...BUT they also thanked the host for dinner with no prompting. It's times like that (the thanking not the couch standing.) that I think we're maybe doing an ok job.
No news on the Guatemala front yet. Supposedly we've been back in PGN for 3 1/2 weeks. I'm still not sure I believe it. We've spent about $30k on this adoption so far with no idea when we're going to bring our daughter home. It makes me absolutely sick to my stomach. Sometimes I don't think she's coming home...
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