Archive for Lovely Little L

Two Years

Yesterday was the two-year anniversary of L’s referral.  Two years was the pinnacle of waiting what felt like forever for something that seemed like such a preposterously possibility.  After all that time and bureaucratic bullshit, who could believe that there was  a real-life person out there who would soon become my child?
Two years ago yesterday, [...]

2008 retrospective

I thought about writing an introspective post summing up this year and my hopes for next year.  I tried to whip up some deep thoughts, but deep thoughts are apparently not on the menu tonight.  Instead, I will write a very superficial summary of the highlights my 2008:
-After being in our family for a year, [...]

the most wonderful time of the year

We went to see Santa at the little mall near our house today.   He was a decent-looking Santa, though he could have used a little more lap space.
L was, shall we say, a bit unenthusiastic about the whole thing.

It’s all about the money

Last weekend, we got together with Mr. A’s side of the family* to celebrate our niece’s 3rd birthday and our nephew’s 1st birthday.   BIL’s family is from Korea, so they decided to do a traditional Korean one year birthday thingamabob for Nephew.   He got to choose between yarn (long life), rice (full belly), paper and [...]

Early Bird

Ok, so I know it is way to early to be talking about Christmas.
I was in Target the first week of November and I heard them playing Xmas music.  It made me want to claw my ears out because CHRISTMAS should not begin BEFORE THANKSGIVING.   But then I couldn’t help myself and I went to [...]