I'm Throwing you a Bone

Progress in Meili's room:

Here are two pictures, me taping and me doing some touch-up painting. So now you can see the paint color change. From drab white to a warm color called "Oat Cake". By the way did you notice the nice derriere? Believe it or not it may just be my nicer side in these pictures as I was wearing no make-up and just looked lovely. Vaavaavooom

Well the room is actually almost totally done, but but but I just cannot reveal it until we have everything in place, sorry. You will just have to be patient and wait.

I'm getting really good (not really) at waiting. The CCAA (CHINA government agency) just matched babies with people whose paperwork (LID) was dated June 16 - 28, 2005.

Reminder: ours is dated 11/18/05. Yeah we're in for a long haul. Pray for us and everyone still waiting. Congratulations to those who just got matched!

Go to http://www.junejitterbugs2005.homestead.com/index.html (takes awhile to load because of all the cute pictures) to see some of the sweet babies matched with families recently.

Thanks for following along.

Dana

Meili's Room

Thanks to the help and work of an incredible designer Lissette, I am making progress (in fact its almost done) towards completing Meili's room. I am not going to post any pictures until it is completely done, however I will post a before picture and maybe some of the in progress pictures. This way you will be waiting with baited breath and checking back often to see if I have posted the "reveal" pictures.

We kind of pulled a "WHILE YOU WERE OUT" (show on TLC) on Burt (DH) and all but finished the room last Friday. I was hoping for more of a recation like a few tears or even a big WOW, or Ho Wa, (inside joke) but Lissette warned me not to expect much. After all, men just flat out don't really care that much about decor. He did say that he had never lived in a house with a room like that and now we need to do the rest of the house and if we did it would sell really fast if we had to sell. Lissette told me this was very complimentary and so I am glad he likes it. Really I guess what matters is that I like it and that I think Meili will like it.

• Do I like it? It has a lot of pink and green my favorite colors. ( I have been forbidden by Lissette to buy anything else in these colors)
• Do I like it? I too have never had a room in any house I've ever lived in like this.
• Do I like it? I have to keep going in there to see if its really there.
• Do I like it? I had a hard time controlling my emotions all day while we were painting and decorating.
• Do I like it? I love it and can't wait to bring home our sweet baby girl to a room as beautiful as this.
• Do I think she will like it? I hope she will, and someday she will see the pictures and read the story of how I was so excited for her to come that I decorated a room just for her that is more beautiful and unlike any room that either her father or her mother ever had in any house they ever lived in.

Thank you Lissette for helping to make this part of my dreams come true.

Here is a before picture, hope you will come back to see the progress and finished work.

Dana

June Secret Pal Gift

I received a package this week from my DTC November 2005 Group Secret Pal. A selection of very cute baby board books and of course a wonderful card.

Thanks Secret Pal!!