Friday, February 02, 2007

WHEW!!!!!

A big sigh of relief for me..... My Dossier have made it through the review room!!!! I was so worried that they would have so many question on my Dossier.... SINGLE??? AGE (almost 50 in March)??? WEIGHT??? INCOME???? I guess everyone worries until they see that magicial posting on CCAA..... It really did not help that EVERY TIME I mentioned to my Mom something that might seem like I had worries, she jumped right on it and reinforced my doubts. She really doesn't know she does this and out of love she is just trying to protect me for having my heart broken.... She did this the whole time I was with my BoyToy or want to try something a little risky. I know that as parents, we fall back on how we were parented..... My Mom was such a loving and fun parent..... These are the things I will try to epitomize while falling back on my parenting of Tate.
Does anyone feel they are being missionaries for Adopting Chinese Children, especially the girls???? I feel like I am looking for people to join in on Adopting these little amazing girls. Just today, I was having a contractor come and bid on replacing my windows in the front room and dining rooms. I asked him about his family, three boys and no girls. I shared with him that I was in the process of adopting from China.... He was so interested because he has a good friend who is in the (also long) process of adopting from Vietnam. I asked him point blank if he was considering adopting a girl and that he really need a little daughter to round out all those boys. I am finding myself doing this way too much!!! I hope I am not offending people by suggesting this but it is my passion right now and I just want so many people to feel the love and the joy I am experiencing even before I hold my Tate. My Tate??? Do I sound possessive??? I will not possess Tate, it is just she is MY everything.... The SUN. The MOON. The STARS.
These are words from a favorite James Taylor song...
"Though we are as nothing to the stars that shine above,
You are my Universe, You (Tate) are my LOVE."

15 comments:

OziMum said...

NO.WAY. You are not nearly 50? Good grief lady, you only look about 30 something in your photos!!! Geez... single life must be good on the ole body!!! I look like I'm nearly 50 and I'm only in my early 30s!!!

Anyway... YAY YAY YAY!!! We're outta the review room!!! Now bring on the extra staff to help out in the Matching Room!!!

C's Mom said...

Congrats...it sure does feel good to be out of one of those rooms! Imagine how we'll feel when we get out of the next one! ;0)

Stephe said...

((exhale))
Yippee! I'm right there with ya girl. It feels awesome to finally be out of review!!!

Pug Mama said...

CONGRATS!!!!
I am sooooo happy we are out!!!!!

Eliza2006 said...

congrats! We'll celebrate on Thurs!

Tiffany

Andrea said...

Welcome back!! Congratulations on making out of review!! I can't wait to see you again on Saturday.

redmaryjanes said...

Congratulations for making it out of the review room!
I find that I do the same thing. Whenever I talk with people about the adoption, I am secretly hoping that they will want to do the same thing.

Colleen said...

Happy days!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so glad that piece is over for you! Now....we wait for your sweet match!

Mary said...

Woohoo!!! Goodbye review room…Hello Match room!!! Congrats!!!

Shannon said...

We're breakin' on through to the other side, my friend! Now our dossiers are probably sitting in the hallway between the review and matching rooms! =)

Joannah said...

Congratulations, Lisa!

Ava's family said...

Hello Matching Room!!!!! YEEEEHAAAWWWWW!

Kelli said...

Yay! We are TRHOUGH! Now we will sit in the matching room where we will gather dust & gain a few gray hairs...trying not to look every day at the calendar to see if it's TIME yet!!! Congratulations!

Jenn said...

Congratulations!!! We were in CA visiting family when I snuck away to look at the RQ site. I sat there in front of the computer bawling like a baby just from the pure relief of it all. I told Matt that we were out of review and he said, 'What does that mean???' ARghh.

Lisa~~ said...

Yippee hurray...even if I am a bit late in reading the post...blame it on Maisie who doesn't like sharing me with the computer.