Meliss clued me into this on the CCAA website: How long will it take approximately the CCAA from the time of accepting the adoption applica...

Last night our local group of May-September LIDers met for an Italian pot-luck night at the beautiful home of Jill and Seth. This was our th...

Today I lunched at an adorable local tea house with Cindy , Jill and Sonia. As you can see, we adorned ourselves with the appropriate accou...

In contrast to my previous post. No diamonds on the water this morning, just spooky mist. The pond must be preparing for Halloween. I'm...

Yesterday was our first cold day of the season. While I realize that temps in the high 50's/low 60's is still quite warm to some, to...

Today, Eammon and his office mates are celebrating the 200th Anniversary of Trafalgar Day with a Limey (OK... it's lemon) cake that I...

Today prezzies arrived for each of us! First these beautifully wrapped gifts arrived from my August DTC Secret Pal. We opened the packages v...

We see you lurking... We know you're there. So go ahead, say hello once in a while. We have found it interesting to see who is visiting ...

But sometimes it works out even better. After my five blissful hours of sleep Thursday night, I had hopes and dreams of future restful night...

Well, not all in one go...But I did actually sleep for a full 5 hours last night. That's the most sleep, within a 24 hour period, that I...

Eammon and I have been living in Georgia for 6 years and we are currently in our 3rd home. (Please, No more local moves!!) Two years ago we ...

As of today, CCAA has had our dossier logged in to their system for a full 2 months. I think of our dossier with all its pictures and offic...

Last night Daphne & Greg joined us for dinner. They arrived, arms filled with gifts! Baby S now has her first Sonya Lee doll...Actually...

Literally. I have been suffering from insomnia for almost 2 months now and let me tell you, getting less than 4 hours of sleep per night su...

Tonight Eammon and I dined with 32 local people who have LIDs between April and September 2006. We all met at Classic Gourmet and dined on s...

Now that the four very sweaty and slightly malodorous men have left me to my comfy cool home, I decided to venture out to the mailbox. There...

Today I spent my day watching and listening as four strange men traipsed through my home banging, cutting and doing who knows what, as they ...

Back in May, I found the perfect baby food for little Funshine. Now for Rod & Mary-Mia, the salsa loving parents-to-be, I've found...

Yes, it is true...sometimes I hate the USPS. They did surprise me by being extremely efficient with all my dossier documents, they deliver ...

In a previous post I mentioned that I had been out shopping for my secret pals, which was a lot of fun. But even more fun was today when I ...

Six years ago yesterday, Hurricane Floyd threatened the eastern seaboard of the U.S. Up until that date, Floyd was one of the biggest stor...

Saturday marked the one month anniversary of our dossier being logged in at CCAA . I am keeping my fingers crossed that in 5 months, we wi...

Now that it is official and have our LID , my attention has turned to the all important...Decorating the nursery. In my mind the room is lov...

August 10 is our official LID (log in date) at CCAA so, our 6-7 month wait to referral has begun! So, what does all this mean? For those of...

Last night, Eammon and I hosted a potluck for a few local couples, ( including 2 blogger buddies ) all of whom have a DTC date between Apri...

Dear Lord, So far today I am doing all right. I have not gossiped, I have not lost my temper, I have not been greedy, grumpy, selfish or sel...

It's our brown envelope from the U.S. Consulate General in Guangzhou ! I wasn't expecting this until after we received our LID (lo...

Even though we don't expect to hear anything regarding our actual LID (log in date) until referrals arrive later this month, I know that...

Friday night was spent getting the new computer set-up, but after that, our weekend improved dramatically. Saturday, we were invited to Dap...

Thursday afternoon, referrals are due and I am obsessively stalking some of my favorite bloggers who are due to get the call. The biggie cal...

Yesterday, I went to a fantastic children's consignment store that Daphne let me know about. The store is located in an upscale area of...