It's a long story but lots of changes

Hi there,

For the five of you that read this blog - you probably already know. Our Vietnam adoption did not work out - we were third on the list from our agency, but the country will be closing for adoptions without referrals on September 1st. BTW, this closure is only for Americans. On September 1st all dossiers without referrals will be sent back to the agencies.

So we decided to go another route - by way of a special needs child from China, a precious little boy. He is as cute as he can be, I'll be sure to post photos when we have our official referral. We were hoping to bring him home as soon as July, but it's not in the cards. We now hope we be able to travel by September.

Life has been extremely busy. I started working and actually like it. We just bought a new house and moved in on May 17th. We've had families from both sides visiting. We've painted two rooms - one orange - the dining room and it looks fabulous as a matter of fact! We also painted our wood-paneled addition to "barrister white" making it a much brighter and more tolerable place to be and less of the dumping ground it had become...

Next room up - perhaps a baby room? I've been putting off buying anything for this room but maybe it's now time to start. We have the idea of an "aquarium theme" - what do you think? Of course, then we have to actually paint it when Greg's dad Larry painted our other rooms.

I hope to post some positive news soon! Hope all are doing well.