Friday, February 03, 2012

Planning

I'm a planner. My calendar is very important to me. I have realized over time that I can only plan so much. Thought I would be teaching forever. Guess not. Thought I would be healthy forever (well, at least til I was 70 or so). Guess not. Thought we would be adopting our third child. Guess not. Thought my mom would be an oma to my kids. Guess not. So far, I have adapted to all of these changes and I'm pretty certain there will continue to be a few more valleys along the way. My main hope and prayer is just that Gary, myself, the boys and our little girl will remain healthy. Oh ya, and I really do hope we get to go to Africa as a family for 2 months to a year at some point!

We needed to make some decisions with our adoption paperwork. Not just with the agency but between Gary and I as well. We decided to have our files sent to the Ministry and if we do want to go ahead with an adoption down the road, the agency we would be working with would request the files from the ministry. We would still have to do a ton of updating stuff as that would be quite some time from now.
{Our `Dear Birth Parent' booklets were mailed back to us today.}

In regards to our family, I still have that deep desire to adopt. Gary is so good with the idea of adoption but he is not so open to the idea of four kids. I totally understand it and respect it. It's a lot of kids when you are a dad working full time (plus another part time job on the side) and you are an involved father. Oh, and when you're a bit older than your wife:) Likely what would happen is if an adoptive situation `fell into our lap' then we would seriously consider it. However, we will not actively search it out. If that makes sense.
{I had to buy hangers because seriously, the boys had maybe 3 dress shirts each hanging up. These are outfits from my sister Jan who is going to be having a boy.}

In the meantime, we are eagerly awaiting the arrival of our baby girl. Kai and Koen are amazingly gentle with my belly/their sister and are very excited about her. Koen is particularly gentle and will rub and kiss my belly while singing songs. It is so sweet and I do need to get it on video. The other day he was playing with my outtie belly button and asked if I could pee out of it:) We have a name for our little girl and you will be happy to know that it does not start with a `K' or a `C':)
You can see the wall colour in the baby room and I liked this pillow so I think there will be accents of these colours throughout the room. I'm trying to keep it pretty simple because I don't want to have to redecorate in 2 years again. I think I'm going to attempt to make my own owl mobile.

Life is good. Thankful for where I am. Okay, I have a little monkey glued to my chair and swinging me around so I better go!

Love, Louise


12 comments:

  1. lou! Love the girl dresses....brings back so many memories....u are so organized! come to my house anytime.

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  2. Jan-you commented! Way to go:) You sounds surprised that I'm organized and you know what, I would love to help organize that giant playroom of yours!!

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  3. oooh, girlie dresses! and i love the pillow; great color combo! If we had found out what we were having the first time around, we would have done pink, green and brown. since we didn't know, that's what we themed her first birthday party around :)

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  4. aww love the pictures of the dresses - so cute!

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  5. Can you organize my room, too? Although there's not a lot of room...cute pillow- where'd ya get it? And can you tell me your girl name?

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  6. Jackie-would love to help organize! Pillow is from Home Sense, and no, you can't know the name. And don't ask Kai, because he accidentally knows:)

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  7. Love that pillow!! The pattern is so cute and girly!

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  8. Awww... dresses! That makes me smile (at the same time, a tiny bit jealous) :)

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  9. Cute dresses!! Can't wait to hear her name!

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  10. that pillow is a-mazing! and the dresses...eeek! so sweet :)

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  11. wow. girl stuff is so crazy different. Plus seriously, you're already set? I'm due anyday and just bought diapers.

    It must have been a moment when you got back the adoption books. While I'm thrilled for your pregnancy, ACK that.

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  12. I love seeing dresses in your closet! The pillow is super cute. Love owls. Getting those adoption booklets back must have been a strange feeling. Glad to know the door for that is still technically open though. Lord knows what will happen in the future and you can rest in knowing He is good. So good you have a daughter growing inside of you. What a blessing!

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