Healthy and Happy

You know I've been burning rubber in my mind trying to decide which road to take. I've realized, at the end of the day, I want what every prospective mom wants. I want a baby that's healthy and happy. I want the child that we are meant to raise. We've taken steps down the road less traveled to get more information so we can make an educated decision.

On Wednesday, February 20 we found out that we are "good candidates" for domestic adoption. We had submitted our intake form more than a week ago to our home study agency, which also happens to be an adoption agency. We got incredible service from them when they did our home study and they have a great reputation in the state for local domestic adoptions.

So, I submitted the form on a Monday. When Wednesday came and I hadn't gotten a response I e-mailed again just to make sure the form was received. Still nothing. I started getting pretty antsy. They have a great reputation for returning calls and e-mail the same day. I waited all of the way through the weekend, and then my nerves got the best of me. I called on Monday, one week after submitting the form. They were closed for President's Day. So, I not so patiently waited another day and called first thing Tuesday morning with only a slight edge of panic in my voice. I found out that the person I had submitted my form to was on vacation for a week. (I withheld my helpful suggestion that she use her out of office response on her e-mail next time.) They promised to process our form as quickly as possible and by Wednesday we got the message that we were good candidates and could go ahead and book an appointment for a full information session.

Our information session is scheduled for Wednesday, March 5. We will make a formal decision about which direction to go after this session.

In the meantime, I'm keeping myself busy with some home improvements. We've been working on a massive living room makeover. Here are a few pics of some of the new pieces:

Fab new textured wallpaper in a warm taupe color.
The picture doesn't do it justice.
It's way cool!

This is the fabric that will be used to make our curtains. There's a luscious plum color, metallic gray and multi-colored strip palette to pull the whole room together. The hardware will be placed on each pleat.