Nothing new on the adoption front

Still waiting for our referral. I'm hopeful it will come soon. Meanwhile, I am keeping myself very busy planning that trip to Disney World. Heh, heh.

Soccer and baseball and swimming...oh my!

The kids' sports are keeping us hopping and summer is just flying by again. The Walmart flyer that came in the mail today had back-to-school stuff advertised. This always makes me a little sad, because summer is my favorite season and I hate the thought of another winter approaching.
I try to tell myself that this is a good thing this year, because it will make the wait for referral and travel to Vietnam seem quicker, but I'm not falling for that line. I still want summer to last all year 'round! My sister-in-law told me that my niece is moving to Florida, and I'm so jealous! Shorts-weather forever!! That's what I'm talkin' about! Someday....

Did you miss me?

Ok, so it's been awhile. What's new on the adoption front you ask? Well, let's see...many fingerprints later, we finally finished our dossier and are officially DTV (Documents To Vietnam) around June 7th or so, and now are patiently awaiting a referral of a baby girl. According to our caseworker, this should happen in the next month or so, and then we would travel to Vietnam around 8-10 weeks later.

I'll tell you why I've been negligent toward this blog; I've been spending all my free time stalking the blogs of other adopting families. While this may seem unproductive, I've learned a great deal from those who have gone before me. We will be incredibly well-prepared when it's our turn to go. So it's all time well spent. Yep.

Lauren is home for the summer, staying at my mom's. She got a summer job as a housekeeper at Eagle Ridge Inn, so that's keeping her busy. Since it looks extremely unlikely that we will be able to travel to VN before she goes back to college, I don't know if she'll be able to go with us. I know she still wants to, but she'll have to see what her professors have to say about missing 3 weeks of classes. Doesn't look good. Possibly she could go with us, but return by herself in a week or something, but I'm not thrilled with the idea of her trying to make her way from Vietnam to Illinois by herself, and I don't think she'll be comfortable doing this either. We'll just have to wait and see.

In other news, I've joined CruiseOne as an independent home-based travel agent. I'm with a CruiseOne franchise in Dubuque; the owner was looking for someone to book cruises in our town. It sounded like fun, and something I can do at home with the kids and keep homeschooling, and maybe earn a little to add to the breadbasket. So I'm busy learning everything I can about cruising, sending out postcards, trying to get my name out there. Now I just need a dang customer!

Anybody want to take a cruise? Call me!!