goodbye 2010

Dear 2010,
it's been real. i learned a lot about myself, and my realtionship this year. it wasn't easy, nor was it how i thought things would turn out but thank you. thank you for showing me that even if my husband and i can't have children we will be a family. thank you for showing me that i have friends and family that will love and cherish our future children no matter how they join our family. thank you for testing my faith and making me realize it's still there. but mostly thank you for hope. we needed it.

here's to 2011

christmas is over...

i'm so sad christmas is over! i had a blast, but in the back of my mind there was this lurking stress. i don't want to spend too much time complaining, but there's been a lot going on and i'm worried that if i don't take care of some of it soon, it's going to get in the way of finishing up the licensing procedure... not that we won't be able to get it done, we just want to get there asap!
ok, enough complaining!

christmas was awesome! loved spending time with my family, had tons of good food, and lots of time to be lazy.
oh! and sorry if i've been sucking at responding to comments, i thought it was supposed to notify me when i got them, but i haven't figured it out yet!
hope everyone had a good holiday!

and i promise my next post will be exciting, maybe even with a pic of the kids room we've been working on!

in the midst of the holiday madness

I feel like Christmas is totally sneaking up on me this year!
Don't get me wrong, presents have been purchased, the halls have been decked and some cookies have been baked, but we've had so much stuff going on with trying to get our foster to adopt license that i just now realized how close Christmas really is!
I'm not gonna lie, I'm more excited about how far we're coming along in the licensing process than I am Christmas this year. (if you know me, you know how big of a deal this is)
But, the hubs and I have decided that while it's great we're so excited for this and we know there's still a lot to be done for it, we need to take a moment to enjoy the holidays.
I hope amid the madness of the season, everyone reading this takes a moment to do the same.
Whether you're celebrating a winter holiday this year or not, I hope everyone takes a moment to look around and find something that finds them genuinely happy and focus on that for a little while.

dun dun dun... the homestudy

so last week was our first homestudy visit, there will be two more and the fire inspection.
it. was.


so easy! seriously i don't wanna jinx us but so far, so good. the questions were exactly like i had expected, the hubs and i both felt at ease and we're actually looking forward to the next visit. due to the holidays we're not sure when our 3rd visit will be or when we'll be able to set up the fire inspection but, i'll be sure to keep everyone updated :)