Another Great Weekend

It's 4pm on Sunday and it has been another great weekend here! No rain this weekend, sunny sky through out. Today we went for a nice long bike ride on the Three River nature trail by us. Thank goodness I've been riding my stationary bike for the last several months otherwise Dan would have left me in his dust :)

On Saturday we went to go order the stroller/infant car seat combo at Direct Buy (we became members last year when we moved into the house). However the model we wanted (Graco Quattro Deluxe Travel System) is not available through them so it looks like we will have to pay retail for it. We also went and picked up some color swatches for the nursery, about time considering we've been talking about that for a couple months now. I think we will use three colors; two yellows and a sage. And we will attempt to paint a bumble bee buzzing around to match the bedding. Once we have it completed I'll post a picture.

Well that's all for now, Roxie is looking at me pleading for me to go play ball with her in the back yard.

It's Spring!

Even though it is raining here right now this weekend has been pretty good. The first weekend that has the feel of spring time in the air. It's been in the 70's both days so I was able to get a few things done outside. Tended to our landscaping, cleaned up some shrubs and put some of my garden decor out. I was also able to get some of the patio/deck furniture out. It started to rain mid afternoon here and it is much needed, so I'm not going to complain. It will definitely get things to green up since its been pretty dry here. Speaking of green, Happy Earth Day!

I wish I had some news to share about our adoption plans. I did have a dream last night that we had a few potential birth moms contact us wanting to meet. If only it wasn't a dream.

No champs here

Dan's hockey team did not win the tournament this weekend (not too surprising). I went and watched their last game on Saturday, which neither team was at their best. Both teams must have been pretty tired cause they were all kind of hackie at each other. However it was always fun to go and watch, I've always loved hockey! Dan did get a little injury (well, according to him an injury is were you can't play so he says it was not an injury and I beg to differ). Him and a team mate skated into each other and knocked each other down. Dan's head rammed into the other guys back pretty hard, it took them both about a minute or so to get back to their feet. Dan ended up with a scrap on his nose from his helmet. Ah, good times.

Today was a beautiful Minnesota day, we went for a very long walk with Roxie in the nature trail by us. We took the grass trail instead of the paved one so Roxie was able to be off the leash for the most part. She of course just loved running free and rolled in something that was either mud or something else that is brown......eeuuwwwww. She got a bath as soon as we got home.

Nothing new on the adoption front, just waiting.

Winter or Spring???

You just never know with Minnesota weather at this time of year. Yesterday it snowed here, actually it started on Tuesday night and continued into Wednesday evening. It was a light snow/drizzle and we end up having about 2 inches in our yard. And of course today the weather turned warmer and it melted. Make up your mind Minnesota!!! I really want to switch out my wardrobe but I hate being cold, I guess I will have to continue to wear my turtlenecks for another week or so.

Dan has his hockey tournament this weekend. Tonight is the first game and then there are two on Saturday with the championship game on Sunday. Last year his team won the league, they were so excited and it was well deserved, they really played great last year. Not sure if they will this year, they've kind of been slackin' (shhhh don't tell Dan I said that).

Another contact

We received an email from a women that works at a Planned Parenthood a couple hours away from the Twin Cities (received our mailing). She went to our website and commented on how much she liked it (if you haven't done so, check it out the new one is now published). She also told us that she is expecting, unplanned pregnancy (yes, a bit ironic considering where she works), and contemplating adoption. We, of course, are not getting our hopes up at all but it is nice to have had another person contact us because of our mailings.

We also heard of another potential birthmother earlier in the week, not from the mailings, again not getting hopes up.

Dan and I have faith in God, that when the time is right the child that is meant to be in our arms will find his/her way to us. Until then, we are waiting patiently and of course keeping ourselves busy ;-)

How sweet is this?

On Monday night we got a call from a woman that works at a clinic near our house, one of the ones we mailed to. She wanted to let us know that she would definitely pass on the info to the staff and doctors at her clinic. She also asked for me to send her more cards, that 3 just wouldn't be enough. Oops...I guess I should have looked at how many doctors were in each clinic we mailed to and sent that amount. I did get the cards off to her the next morning with a thank you note.

She also told us that her and her husband are also in the process of getting ready to adopt, their homestudy is almost approved. She thought is was a great idea to send out the letter and that they will be doing the same thing but that she did not want to do outreach at her clinic being to close to the patience's etc... It was just so sweet of her to call us! It gave me hope that maybe alot of those letters and cards won't end up in the trash. I hope one day I can pass on hope to a stranger like she did for me!

Time to catch up!

It's been a couple weeks since my last post, been a bit busy. Our weekend get away was nice, we ended up hiking instead of cross country skiing. It was still a good time and amazing to see the huge ice build up on the shores of Lake Superior due to the powerful winds from the big snow storms we had the other month, here's a couple of pictures

Remember a couple months ago when I said I wanted to send out letters to the OB/GYN clinics, well I finally got around to doing that. We started with the clinics within a 10 miles radius of us, all the Planned Parenthoods in MN and then all within a 60 miles radius of Duluth. There was a total of 85 letters. My mom helped me the other day put them together, we stuffed them with a few business cards. I'm sure the majority will end up in the trash but it only takes one person to pass on the info to someone that is wanting to make adoption plans for their baby. Keep your fingers crossed for us!

Dan is also in the process of updating our website with a fresh look. We should have that published by Tuesday.

Other things going on in my life, I've been focusing on going Green! This will be an evolving process, taking baby steps right now. First I'm concentrating on the personal and skincare products I use. I was amazed to find out that alot of the products I use have chemicals in them that are linked to causing cancer (specifically breast). Not that this is brand new info to me I guess I'm just taking my blinders off and realizing it is time to make a change for the health of me and the environment. I went through my drawers/cabinets and have at least 30 items to get rid of. I've begun to use my new products and love them! Here is a link to an article on this topic http://www.seventhgen.com/making_difference/newsletter_article.php?article=539&issue=82

We will also be changing out all household products with "green" ones once we run out of what we currently have. This then also raises the question on what will we do about diapers. Do we use expensive environmentally friendly one's, cloth one's or the one's that will sit in a landfill for years???