WELCOME 2011!

9 Wonderful warm sunny days in Mexico has renewed my being.  It was quite and year and we are looking forward to 2011.  Hope everyone had a wonderful time!

Before I update all of my millions of readers on our progress, I need to discuss "Mr. Peepers".  Who is "Mr. Peepers" you ask?  Well....in short (and I mean short) it's the male body part covered up by diapers.  Speaking of diapers, we are in the throws of potty training.  We actually have gone cold turkey and are flying by the seat of our pants (so many puns, so little time).  There seems to be a disconnect between me and Mr. Peepers.  He seems out of control.  No matter how many ways I try to get that pee pee in the potty it always ends up....well....everywhere!  Hold it down hold it up...it  doesn't really matter.  I never had a Mr. Peepers and I'm glad.   I am going to leave this one up to Rich as much as I can.  As for the munchkin....he's doing great minus a few accidents and in general all the change of clothes are due to me not having good aim.  Just putting it at there, needed to vent, thanks for reading.

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Our homestudy is set for next week.  So much cleaning, so little time.  I've decided not to stress too much about the state of affairs on the house. We have a kid, it gets messy and I'll clean as much as I can before our meeting. Make sure all the gates are ok, the smoke alarms are batteried up and the fire extinguishers are replaced. What's our fire escape plan? Hmmm. I'll work on that.  Other than that, just trying to get together our latest paperwork. I made a binder for our social worker and a check list so everything is laid out neatly. 

I'd say the hardest part of getting ready is coming to terms with the hard questions you need to answer about your life, your marriage, your partner and your expectations of your next child.  It's intimate. It's supposed to be. 
What you are willing and not willing to accept of your birth mother and the child?  Drug abuse, deformities, health problems, minor or major surgeries needed, blindness, deafness....these are the types of things you need to be able to honestly answer.  What are you willing to accept if the situation came up?  We would like a perfectly healthy child from a perfectly healthy birth mother.   But most of the time that's not a reality, so we keep asking......THE question.  We don't need to have all the answers but we need to think about what we are capable of at this point in our lives and what will be best for our family as a whole.  When we figure it out, I'll let you know.

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