Oh that spam

We are slammed at work so I am totally irresponsible and typing a quick post. We get this crazy-ass insane penis spam in our private Christian school email mailboxes. Today I got messages with these subject lines:
Significant penis thickening with strong orgasm (this sounds a bit Asian to me)
Love tool deserving of a titan

There are also the less-inspired:
Make her scream with pleasure all night long (or let your little boy watch the Goonies on TBS and listen to him scream when the dog nudges his bed)

All right all right--must go run off grade level meeting materials, ready admission tests, and run lunch report. I'm dropping articles, do I sound Asian? Me so fun-neee.

I'll be burning in hell if you need me!
Em

Waiting to hear

Well one of the birth moms living at Tiempo Nuevo has given birth! Before she had her baby she favored an international adoption with one of the Gladney families. No word yet if she has handed over the baby, and there's no telling if she really will. Of course moms everywhere, not just Mexico, change their minds about giving away their babies. So very soon we will hear if we are still family no. 3 or if we have moved up to no. 2!

Bday was good. Watched J play t-ball, then hubby took him to the team pizza party and I got to go have my haircut. Did everyone get to Sam's Club to buy their rice?? A lot of rice is grown (and eaten) in SE Texas so people here are either panicked b/c of de gumbo or like "shut up, I got de rice in my backyahd".

Em

Amianne Rocks!

Tomorrow is my birthday. Yep, me and the Earth were born on the same day. But today the most AWESOME thing happened. I got my bday present from my best friend Aim in the mail!

I have many friends that I hold close to my heart, but my friends Amianne in Dallas and Tracie in Hilton Head are sisters of my soul. We were all roommates in college and have stayed best friends for 13 or 15 years or something insane like that.

So from Aim I get a High School Musical bday card (daughter Landry picked it out) and the movie Juno! We had the day off from school/work today, so of course I've already watched it today. That movie just makes me cry and cry. The whole adoption, being pregnant/not being able to be pregnant, and watching your daughter have a baby thing just overwhelms me.

I'm not the only one, when we say it in the theater Mike totally cried. Actually we weren't able to see the ending in the theater, Aim had to tell me over the phone b/c we had to rush to pick Jack up from a Parents' Night Out at our church. So Aim, being a sister of my soul, stuck a pink post-it on the movie telling me to pull out the kleenex and think about how my baby girl is on her way. I love you Aim!

Tomorrow, the actually Bday, will NOT rock. We have a t-ball game (yay!) and our team pizza party at CiCi's Pizza after (boo!). Plus I have to go back to work. Today was perfect, though!

Em

The First Tooth!

Big day for Jack Dorris. He has lost his first tooth!

Actually he lost it on Friday after Field Day at school. Thank goodness Mike was there so we could make an appropriately big deal about it.

Jack, actually, is very scared of blood. He used to panic at nosebleeds and when he cuts his finger or scrapes his knee he has to lay down or else he passes out. Needless to say I don't think he's going into medicine.

So I tug on J's very loose tooth but he stops me and twists it out himself. He's all very proud and happy, but then there's more blood than he expects. So he hands me his soaked paper towel and runs to the trash can to gag and gag. Poor kid. Then he starts to sob b/c he just feels so crappy. We lay him down on the nurse's couch and Mike and I hang out with him for a while b/c our kid is WAY pale. This all happens in the office where I work, thank goodness. Soon my lovely co-workers start coming through to ooh and aah over Jack, so he starts to feel better.

Friday night after Jack puts his tooth under his pillow for the tooth fairy I ask to see it. He could only show it to me with his eyes closed b/c he says it still "freaked him out". And he could only sleep near the pillow, not on it. Poor kid! The tooth fairy left him a bundle, but only b/c it was the first tooth, and only because it was hard as hell on him.

Here's a picture of the cutie, I haven't loaded any of his "new hole" yet. Poor kid, Momma's saving for a new tile floor so neither of us have had haircuts for a few weeks. He just looks like a sloppy spoiled private school kid, right?

Em

After almost two years...

Here's a few highlights of our adoption process.

We started working on all this while living in Frederick, Maryland. After several months we finally finished our homestudy and were just about done with all of our US Gov't requirements when Mike got transferred to TX and we had to move to Beaumont.

After moving we ended up having to redo lots of paperwork, the gov't "lost" us and denied our adoption request, and we had the pleasure of paying for several things again. I strongly advise you not to change states in the middle of an adoption! Then we switched adoption countries, because we like to punish ourselves.

Actually Gladney advised us to change from Colombia to Mexico. Colombia's placement timeline was so slow that we could have waited YEARS before getting our referral. Mexico was supposed to be quicker, so we switched. Of course now Mexico has slowed down but, as our caseworker reminds us, we are no. 3 on the list! So cross your fingers, pick a daisy, or pray for our little family.

Em

Why adoption?

Why have we chosen adoption to expand our family?

After our son was born six years ago I was diagnosed with peripartum cardiomyopathy, a heart condition where pregnancy causes congestive heart failure. It's pretty rare and there's not a lot of info on it, but we have been told that death for mommy is a common outcome, especially during a second pregnancy. Thankfully after three years my heart was completely recovered and I don't have to have to take any meds or watch my lifestyle (hello beera!).

Mike (hubby) and I quickly decided that international adoption was our best choice for our second child, it's a closed adoption and we can pick the gender of our child. It did take us four years after J was born to get to the "right" time to begin the process. Moving around so much was making it hard to complete the process, and money was always an issue. The adoption will probably total out at around $30,000.

We are very happy with our agency, Gladney in Fort Worth. They have been in business over 100 years and have placed thousands of babies. I'm so about old movies, and there is a pretty decent one about the life of Edna Gladney called Blossoms in the Dust starring Greer Garson. Incidentally Greer also does a decent turn as Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice (Kiera rocks the role, though).

Em