Our profile has been approved and published! Wooooohoooo!! Check it out.. I can't even think of what else to say. It's such a relief to have it done and out there for birth parents to see. Now all that's left is for us to wait for someone to contact us. If you know of anyone who might want to place their baby for adoption, we would very much appreciate your recommendation. Contact us at robertandaliciaadopt@gmail.com.
Friday, January 31, 2014
Saturday, January 25, 2014
Winter
I'm back! Here's a summary of the last two months:
We had a great Christmas visiting family in Oklahoma. I can't even remember what we did for New Year's, so it must have been mediocre. I spent most of January helping a friend sell some of her things on eBay. Honestly, it's been a lot more work than I anticipated, but I'm glad I can help her out. We've also been completing adoption training and finalizing our profile. And we finally finished! All that is left is for the case worker to approve it and publish it to the website. When I called the LDS Family Services office to make sure all of our paperwork was in order, I told the secretary that I felt like there should be some sort of fanfare or applause soundtrack when you get everything done. We've been working on our application for TWO years. I'm confident that the timing is right though. Somewhere out there, there is a woman who doesn't know what to do. She's pregnant, but for one reason or another, she knows she can't give her child the life he/she deserves. She's looking at the adoption profiles, hoping that she'll find the right couple, that she'll know she's making the right choice. And she'll find Robert and Alicia, and she'll know that this is the family that her child belongs to. And it will be the beginning of a great family relationship for everyone.
As soon as our profile is published, I'll post the link here and y'all can start sharing!
We had a great Christmas visiting family in Oklahoma. I can't even remember what we did for New Year's, so it must have been mediocre. I spent most of January helping a friend sell some of her things on eBay. Honestly, it's been a lot more work than I anticipated, but I'm glad I can help her out. We've also been completing adoption training and finalizing our profile. And we finally finished! All that is left is for the case worker to approve it and publish it to the website. When I called the LDS Family Services office to make sure all of our paperwork was in order, I told the secretary that I felt like there should be some sort of fanfare or applause soundtrack when you get everything done. We've been working on our application for TWO years. I'm confident that the timing is right though. Somewhere out there, there is a woman who doesn't know what to do. She's pregnant, but for one reason or another, she knows she can't give her child the life he/she deserves. She's looking at the adoption profiles, hoping that she'll find the right couple, that she'll know she's making the right choice. And she'll find Robert and Alicia, and she'll know that this is the family that her child belongs to. And it will be the beginning of a great family relationship for everyone.
As soon as our profile is published, I'll post the link here and y'all can start sharing!
Friday, December 20, 2013
Christmas Tree
I was really late getting the tree up, so I didn't really feel like getting the ornaments out. I told Emily to go find things to hang on the tree and its become quite the collection. So far we have: a stuffed blue elephant, a green stacking cup, baby Jesus, an old remote, a broken calculator, a Happy 1st Anniversary card that I meant to send to my brother and sister-in-law more than two years ago, and a couple real ornaments. I can't wait to see what else she puts on it. 
Saturday, December 7, 2013
Hot and Cold
I'm either hot or cold with blogging. In case you weren't sure, I'm cold right now. I have some totally amazing posts about our trip to Philly in November, but they aren't ready to post yet and I can't find any time to finish them. One day. Hang in there with me, friends.
Thursday, November 14, 2013
Fun in Philly - Day 10, Thursday
November 14
Carrie took Emily to Wawa (a gas station) for what Carrie called "hot drinks" (hot chocolate for Emily and coffee for Carrie) and donuts. Then they went to the park and had a "picnic". Emily came back buzzed from the adventure (and probably all the sugar).
Carrie took Emily to Wawa (a gas station) for what Carrie called "hot drinks" (hot chocolate for Emily and coffee for Carrie) and donuts. Then they went to the park and had a "picnic". Emily came back buzzed from the adventure (and probably all the sugar).
We ended the day by playing Scrabble on Papa's bed. The challenge of the game was to make sure Emily didn't rearrange letters on the board when no one was looking. I had a great time. I love playing games, especially with my family.
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Fun in Philly - Day 9, Wednesday
Today most of our fun was in Philadelphia.
Papa had a doctor's visit in the University City part of Philadelphia, so we figured we'd all go together and have some adventures. My sister Carrie lives downtown, so we picked her up, and then went to a Korean restaurant for lunch.
I don't know that I've ever had Korean food before, and this stuff was AMAZING! I think the place was called Giwa, near Rittenhouse Square. It was a tiny place, you could maybe sit 20 people, and it was packed. Carrie had been there before so she ordered for everyone.
She came back with a couple bottles of water and this stuff:
"Aloe vera juice with pulp bites." In my experience, aloe is something you use to soothe burns, so it was a little strange to be drinking it. It's a sweet, smooth (ok, it was slimy but that's not really an appetizing word) juice and then all the sudden you'll get a chunk of something, the "pulp bites". If you know that they are coming it's not too bad. We got Emily to try it. She was not a fan of the chunks. A couple sips was enough for me.
Then our food was ready. It's called bibimbop, which is fun to say. Sort of like "Francisco".
It came in steaming hot metal (maybe stone?) bowls, piled high with vegetables (carrots, bean sprouts, baby corn, lettuce, red bell peppers, spinachy stuff, red cabbage, mushrooms), rice in the bottom and some beef in the middle. Hot hot hot! I'm pretty sure the veggies were raw when I first got the bowl, but they were perfectly cooked by the time everything was cool enough to eat. The meat was probably marinated, but I don't think there was any seasonings or sauce on it. It did come with a little bowl of red sauce. It was pretty spicy so I only put a little on and the whole bowl was AMAZING. Warmed my whole body up. So so so good. I ate the whole thing, but was surprised that I didn't feel stuffed. Maybe because there were so many vegetables. Oh it was good. If it didn't involve a ridiculous drive into the city, I would go get more right now. Maybe I can figure out how to make something similar at home. Did I mention how delicious it was?
Emily, with her boring toddler palate, had a bowl of plain white rice. And water. Prison food. Whatever. We tried to get her to taste everything. No dice.
We had parked in a garage next to the restaurant. We had to pay $28. To park in a crappy garage for an hour and a half! Instead of talking about how outrageous it was to pay that much, we called it "part of the experience."
We dropped Grammy and Papa off at his doctor's appointment and then had two or three hours to kill. We walked around for a little bit and then ended up at the University of Pennsylvania bookstore.
We walked around the store, read books and stopped in at the cafe. I got the peppermint hot chocolate (which was good but not as good as QuikTrip's) and Carrie got an eggnog latte (which smelled like burnt egg nog, but she said it was delicious). Emily had a gigantic sugar cookie with red sugar sprinkled on top. Definitely not prison food.
We picked up Grammy and Papa, dropped off Carrie at work and started on our way back to Royersford. At 4:30 pm. On a weekday. At rush hour. Ugh. It took at least two hours to drive 33 miles. I'm glad I wasn't driving. As a bonus, Emily slept almost the whole way.
Reading with Papa was a fun way to end the day.
Papa had a doctor's visit in the University City part of Philadelphia, so we figured we'd all go together and have some adventures. My sister Carrie lives downtown, so we picked her up, and then went to a Korean restaurant for lunch.
I don't know that I've ever had Korean food before, and this stuff was AMAZING! I think the place was called Giwa, near Rittenhouse Square. It was a tiny place, you could maybe sit 20 people, and it was packed. Carrie had been there before so she ordered for everyone.
She came back with a couple bottles of water and this stuff:
"Aloe vera juice with pulp bites." In my experience, aloe is something you use to soothe burns, so it was a little strange to be drinking it. It's a sweet, smooth (ok, it was slimy but that's not really an appetizing word) juice and then all the sudden you'll get a chunk of something, the "pulp bites". If you know that they are coming it's not too bad. We got Emily to try it. She was not a fan of the chunks. A couple sips was enough for me.
Then our food was ready. It's called bibimbop, which is fun to say. Sort of like "Francisco".
It came in steaming hot metal (maybe stone?) bowls, piled high with vegetables (carrots, bean sprouts, baby corn, lettuce, red bell peppers, spinachy stuff, red cabbage, mushrooms), rice in the bottom and some beef in the middle. Hot hot hot! I'm pretty sure the veggies were raw when I first got the bowl, but they were perfectly cooked by the time everything was cool enough to eat. The meat was probably marinated, but I don't think there was any seasonings or sauce on it. It did come with a little bowl of red sauce. It was pretty spicy so I only put a little on and the whole bowl was AMAZING. Warmed my whole body up. So so so good. I ate the whole thing, but was surprised that I didn't feel stuffed. Maybe because there were so many vegetables. Oh it was good. If it didn't involve a ridiculous drive into the city, I would go get more right now. Maybe I can figure out how to make something similar at home. Did I mention how delicious it was?
Emily, with her boring toddler palate, had a bowl of plain white rice. And water. Prison food. Whatever. We tried to get her to taste everything. No dice.
We had parked in a garage next to the restaurant. We had to pay $28. To park in a crappy garage for an hour and a half! Instead of talking about how outrageous it was to pay that much, we called it "part of the experience."
We dropped Grammy and Papa off at his doctor's appointment and then had two or three hours to kill. We walked around for a little bit and then ended up at the University of Pennsylvania bookstore.
We walked around the store, read books and stopped in at the cafe. I got the peppermint hot chocolate (which was good but not as good as QuikTrip's) and Carrie got an eggnog latte (which smelled like burnt egg nog, but she said it was delicious). Emily had a gigantic sugar cookie with red sugar sprinkled on top. Definitely not prison food.
We picked up Grammy and Papa, dropped off Carrie at work and started on our way back to Royersford. At 4:30 pm. On a weekday. At rush hour. Ugh. It took at least two hours to drive 33 miles. I'm glad I wasn't driving. As a bonus, Emily slept almost the whole way.
Reading with Papa was a fun way to end the day.
Thursday, November 7, 2013
Fun in Philly - Day 3, Thursday
November 7
Emily and I have been sharing a full-sized bed. She's had a hard time going to sleep, but once she does it's not too bad. I kind of like having her little body snuggled up next to me. Except that by morning she's hogging the whole bed. As you can see, she generously left me 1/4 of the bed.
Nap time has been a disaster. She just can't settle down and relax enough to sleep. Today she finally crashed on the bedroom floor.
The best part of today was that Aunt Carrie was able to come to Grammy's house. Aunt Carrie is always fun to play with. First some Play-Doh.
Then kids yoga on YouTube.
I really wish we could have Aunt Carrie over all the time.
Emily and I have been sharing a full-sized bed. She's had a hard time going to sleep, but once she does it's not too bad. I kind of like having her little body snuggled up next to me. Except that by morning she's hogging the whole bed. As you can see, she generously left me 1/4 of the bed.
Then kids yoga on YouTube.
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