Mardi Gras!

It is Fat Tuesday! I will do my best to celebrate. : ) I actually started Fat Tuesday on Sunday. I went to an Oscar party and ate enough cheese to tide me over until Easter. Tonight I will TRY to talk Gordon into going to get a Blizzard. I don't think I will have to twist his arm. Since I am giving up sweets, as well as, cheese this year I need to get my fill!

Wish me luck...

Amazingly, I never lose any weight during this time. BUT, I've never given up both at the same time!! So, there is a chance I will look like a babe at Easter. The things we do for our Lord : )

Honest Crap

I've been tagged by Deanna -

The rules of the award:
1) Choose a minimum of 7 blogs that you find brilliant in content or design. (All my bloggy friends have been tagged) : (
2) Show the 7 winners names and links on your blog, and leave a comment informing them that they were prized with "Honest Scrap."
3) List at least 10 honest things about yourself.

Here I go...

1) I hoard boxes and bags (Even grocery store bags, I can't throw them out!!) My poor pantry.

2) I would never want to live without cheese. I do give it up for lent, which is starting this week : (

3) I'm verrry frugal with money. I think infertility was God's way of getting me to spend...

4) I only buy the paper towels that you can rip off a half. Which is surprising because they cost about 4 x the amt of others.

5) When I'm home alone, I stay up late!

6) I can't read without falling asleep.

7) I loved algebra! I still give myself problems every once in awhile, just to see if I still got it!... I do!

8) I wish I could sing better. I love watching people sing. this is why I dvr American idol religiously, don't miss an award/honors show and would never arrive to a sporting event AFTER the National Anthem...

9) Secretly, (not so much anymore) think I would be a great actress. Gord says I'm dramatic!!

10) The relationships in my life are what I cherish most. I could always use another friend... Well, not USE them, you know what I mean!!!

Thanks Deanna, that was very enlightening. I don't have anyone to tag between you and Eileen, I think you hit all... Unless Carla is willing??? Carla? Bueller? Beuller?

Valentine's day

Gord felt we deserved something special for Valentine's day this year, so he planned a surprise. He booked us a night at the resort where we spent our wedding night. It was nice, we checked in yesterday afternoon and took a nap by the pool, got up an gussied up for dinner. When we came back from dinner, the hotel put champagne and chocolates in the room. That was even a surprise to Gord. In the morning, we got breakfast in bed! Cool deal, huh? We are home now and since he told me last week to plan nothing for this weekend, I am doing just that... NOTHING.

While we were out to dinner last night, we reminisced on last Valentine's day. Last year, we got a call from an attorney we had just met and she had a baby situation. During our meeting she thought we said we were already certified with our home study. Since we were not certified, she nipped the convo and said to let her now when we were. It was our first call and we just talked about it all dinner! We thought "WOW, this can happen fast for us"... Not knowing what the year was gonna bring.

All in all, it was a great weekend. Even though it was about 20 miles from our house, I feel like we got a way : )

Digging out!!

I'm sure I lost a lot of followers : )

As we dig ourselves out of our hole (slowly, but surely), we are coming back to life. I've been asked by several people if I will continue the blog, start a new one etc... I decided to keep the same one. It is the same journey... the end goal is the same, right?? Ella was a huge beginning and I'm sure there were many of lessons to be learned, but we are not bright eyed and bushy tailed enough to see them. All in all, I feel like we did everything right. We committed whole heartily and that is what we will have to do the next time. The next baby deserves that hope, attention, commitment, love and excitement that Ella got. I told my mother-in-law that if we are placed with a boy that he will be wearing pink for the first 12 mos and she said that was OK because Gordon did, too, and he turned out OK!! I loved that. It was news to Gord, but he is old enough to process this!! We do have a picture of him in tights, but they blamed that on the cold weather : )

I just wanted to check in... We are doing OK. We have good days and bad days. It is a healing process and we are letting ourselves grieve. We have a ton of support around us.

There is nothing to mention on the adoption front. Our name is out there and we will continue our journey. If there is one thing we learned it is that WE LOVED BEING PARENTS. Even if it was only for 3 days. : (

Thanks for all of the continued support!!