Updates and a Correction

Cassie got a new dresser (well, new to her). It's of a style that I love with a mirror and is the perfect size for her. I found it at an antique shop for a very reasonable price (have you priced new furniture?). Cassie's comment was, "Thank you for my new mirror Mommy." I knew that would be her favorite part.

I came down with bronchitis this spring. I developed a cough and after my bout with pneumonia earlier this year I didn't hesitate this time to see my doc. She prescribed cefuroxime (I can't even pronounce it) and after a couple of weeks I seemed to perk up.

I no longer have an orange porch. All the severe thunderstorms we've had lately have managed to wash off the orange paint. If only I could get rid of the snake residue on the sidewalk left from four July 4th's ago.

BlogLikeItsTheEndOfTheWorld takes place annually on June 13, not on Friday the 13th. They just happened to coincide this year, hence my error. So Feb 13 will not be the next event. I hear there were some imaginative zombie stories.

Cassie has finally warmed up to taking showers. Several times over the past two years she was going to shower with me, then backed out at the last second. My back appreciates not having to lean over a tub.

Adoption of Daughter #2 is still on track, but proceeding so incredibly slowly. The China Center of Adoption Affairs is working on referrals for families with Log-In Dates (LID) of January, 25, 2006, and it's taken them a couple of months to do January. Our LID is April 20, 2007. Additionally, our federal paperwork is beginning to expire. We'll be doing our paperwork two and three times before all is said and done, and of course paying the same fees all over again too. Our fingerprints expired in June and our homeland security papers will expire in September. Fees have increased as well so to re-file with the Feds will now cost $800 plus fingerprint fees. If we were following the same timeline for this adoption as we had for Cassie's, we'd be in China right now. This is so frustrating.