Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to all my dear friends and family!! My parents came over for awhile, we had a good time playing Wii...dad became too tired to make it until midnight...That is ok b/c I have trouble staying up until midnight anymore too these days! We still enjoyed one another and wished eachother a good New Year!

We are letting the boys stay up tonight, a special treat, but I honestly doubt they will make it, I see tired eyes and lots of yawns! So...we have another hour and twenty minutes...in the interim I am thinking about all my goals for 2009 and all the things I am thankful for.

Things I am thankful for:
1. First most my health and the health of my family, I say this frequently, but I would not have anything w/out my health!
2. A happy marriage, wonderful hubby!
3. Two healthy beautiful sons
4. Our jobs (hubby & I)
5. The best parents in the world!
6. My friends and family
7. Happiness
8. The very basics of life (health again, shelter, clothing, food)
9. This Country, being an American and the sacrafice our soldiers make every day for our freedom!
10. Support of my hubby, boys, family and friends towards adoption!!

Goals for 2009:
1. To exercise more and eat healthier
2. To start the adoption process towards our little girl!
3. To spend more quality time w/ the boys (I never feel like I spend enough...)
4. To obtain my LCSW (Licensed Clinical Social Worker) License...I have to take a very difficult exam!!!
5. To try and appreciate myself more...sometimes I am too hard on myself.

Ok...that is all I can think of for now...may add more later.

May 2009 bring us a better/more stable economy, continued good health and happiness! May all your goals and wishes for the year 2009 come true!!

Day #2...I am beginning to enjoy and have fun w/ this whole blogging thing as you can tell! Yes, I have a confession, those are cute little girls clothes that I have ALREADY purchased for our future daughter!! I walk into a store and and pulled towards the little girls clothes, they are so adorable and much too cute to pass up! I have had to find some discipline within myself or else I could easily shop myself out of the adoption!!! I must force myself to just walk the other direction...I ask my friends whom have girls how they can resist all the cute clothes and they tell me that they simply cannot justify buying any more b/c they are so cute and already have a closet full! I have a secret fear that I will go broke once we are matched w/ our daughter ;)

Ok...so I wanted to post an update on where we are in the process. We, well I (hubby left this task up to me) did lots of research on adoption agencies and we were somewhat limited as we were choosing to be gender specific. I finally located an agency, domestically that I feel comfortable with. I met a woman on line whom adopted their daughter through this agency and had a very positive experience and now I have a good friend of mine Lisa whom is going through this agency and having a positive experience so far...so step one is complete. Now we are waiting until the complete finances are in order which we anticipate will be in March or April. I don't want to wait any longer...I jokingly laugh that my two boys will be in college before our little one arrives!

I was notified by our agency of choice that we will be looking to wait anywhere between 12-18 mos for a match as it takes longer when being gender specific so I really want to get moving w/ this process. So, needless to say I am very anxious for 2009 to arrive...I pray my family along w/ all my other adoptive mommy friends will have a new little baby to hold, kiss and love this next coming year!!

Getting Started

Well, this is my very first post and after much thought about whether I wanted to create a blog or not of mine own, wondering if I would be able to be faithful to it and update it often enough, be interesting enough...I have finally decided to give it a chance!

I am happily married mother of two beautiful boys planning to begin the adoption process next year towards our daughter. I always assumed I would have a daughter, but always longed to have sons. Funny how life unfolds, but I strongly believe there is a reason for everything. I was blessed w/ my two boys (six and seven) and as the result of difficulties pregnancies and medical complications my husband and I chose not to persue more biological children. My husband and I have always had an interest in adoption and so adoption felt like the right choice for us to persue our daughter. Why a daughter you ask? Well, there are many reasons...First, I already have my two beautiful boys whom I adore, I love pink, girls clothes, bows, ribbons, princess movies which my boys will not watch with me (Lol..) and I have such a wonderful and close relationship to my mother. Although I do realize that having my own daughter does not guarantee me the same relationship I am hopeful that I can create this type of relationship with her.

From those who know me, you know that I have thought about adoption for a long time (years!). I have educated myself on the adoption process and through a wonderful adoption website have met so many wonderful moms whom have adopted themselves and have these beautiful children to love now all because of the miracle of adoption! Adoption feels so right to me and although I can honestly say at one time I had my concerns and fears, I can now say I feel a sense of peace and calmness thinking about our journey towards our little girl...

Oh and a little bit more, I am a full time working mommy...hence my fear that I may not have enough time to keep up w/ this, but I will do my best! I have a quite interesting job as a medical social worker which can be both emotionally and physically challenging and rewarding. It is a wonderful feeling knowing that I have an impact on others in helping to make their lives a little better. Processing my days always helps so I am sure I will have a few stories to share later on...I think my job has really helped my boys to see the importance of my work, helping others, it has given us lots of opportunities to volunteer and to appreciate the basics of our lives foremost our health!

My hope for this blog is to share a little bit about my life and our journey towards our daughter, to give and receive support, update friends and family and always to meet new people with common interests!

After having a wonderful nine days off for the holidays I am back to work tommorrow! Have a great night!