A good day...

    Today was a good day. I got a call from one of the people in Atlanta that my home study has been approved and finalized. They emailed it to me to look at the rough draft to see if there were any errors. Everything involved with adoption takes so many steps. It is not like you are handed one thing and do it, it takes several steps to do just that one thing. Also, I had to fill out a preliminary application to the agency I wanted to use. I got a letter today from them letting me know I could send in the primary application. I guess that means that they have accepted me, YEH!!! I do not know if any of these things will make anything move any faster, but at least I feel like I am accomplishing something.

    This is Tuesday night and I have been off since Saturday afternoon. It has been a nice weekend. I went to church Sunday morning. They have a children's moment as most services do, and it was cool to think that hopefully soon, I will be able to see Aeson running down to the front of the church with the other kids. I also went to have lunch with my friends Frank and Sarah Orgel, and their daughter Leigh Ann Mathis that is pregnant and due in just a few weeks. We had a nice time. We looked at all of the baby things that Leigh Ann has in her nursery. Man, if I get half as much stuff as she has, I am going to have to move into a bigger place, HA! She had the coolest diaper bag, made by Columbia I think. It totally did not look like a diaper bag at all! I am going to go ahead and buy one this weekend. As I have said before, I do not know what kind of Snugli to get, so she and I discussed this also. I am obsessing about the Snugli because I am going to have to carry Aeson all over Vietnam for several weeks, and the most comfortable Snugli is gonna make or break me.

    I have been looking into food choices for when we are gone as well. I saw one picture where they take a coke can, cut out the top, stick a defeathered bird in head first, feet hanging out the top, and cook it in the can on a grill I think. Needless to say, I have been looking into all types of just add water soups that we can take with us, as well as beef jerky and other small non-perishable foods. If the bird in the can is any indication of food choices there, I will be skinnier than I already am when we return, HA! I am sure there are things that will not be so strange, but this is an adventure.