What a beautiful way to welcome the new year! As much as we like to complain about the weather in Michigan, there is no denying that this is soooo pretty. The air is so crisp and clean and everything is covered in a soft blanket of fresh snow (over a foot)! How gorgeous! Our dog, Storm, loves it! Poor Gary, our snowblower quit, so he had to do a lot of hand shoveling! I have a feeling that 2008 is going to be a fabulous year! Happy New Year, everyone!
I can't believe we have waited this long for our Kaelin! If someone would have told me last Christmas that we would not have her by this Christmas I would have said they were out of their mind! Well here we are a year later and no Kaelin. But you know, I'm not that sad. I have my 5 beautiful, sweet, amazing kids and a great husband and I love tht we are all together home and it's Christmas! God has chosen the perfect little girl for us and it is just not time for her to be here yet. We have a really good feeling that she has been born and now we just pray that God will fill her little heart with peace and keep her warm and fed until we can come get her and love her forever. Next Christmas is going to be unforgettable!
Kaelin's room is almost done! I am so excited that Kaelin's room is finally coming together. After 5 trips to the paint store and 3 different carpet stores her room is almost finished! I chose fernwood green for the walls and cinderella pink for the ceiling. The carpet is the softest shag and feels so good under bare feet! All we have left to do is order the roman shades for the windows and finish the seat cusion for the window seat! The bedding is Pink Daisy Garden from PBKids and the crib is a Babi Italia Eastwood in dark cherry from Babies R Us. Instead of buying the dresser that went with the crib I decided to use the dresser I used for all five of my kids! I love that I am using it for Kaelin too! All I did was paint it white replace the old hardware with the cutest ladybug knobs I got at Target.com. I also scattered the prettiest little fairies around the walls, they are precious! The chandelier is also from Target! The best part is my sweet adorable husband, who I love beyond words, is getting me the Pottery Barn Kids Dream Glider in the light pink cotton twill for Christmas! It takes about 6 to 8 weeks to come in so it will be a while before I can post pictures of the room completely finished. The pictures above are just a sneak preview!
Well, it's that time again! Our agency is expecting to receive referrals for families logged in through December 8th, '05 this week. Why does it seem that every month referrals come, we still have about a 6 month wait? I think, this time, we can honestly say, "6 more months!" If CCAA stays consistent in doing 1 week's worth of LID's per month, then it will take them at least 6 more months to make it to our LID of January 23, '06. 
