Rumor Update for Friday morning...

Today's rumor is this:

"So we have it from several sources that packages are expected and may even be in the US mail system as early as some point today. Of course they have many stops along the way--plane, truck, van--all the way to your agency. It is going to be tough to tell exactly when the packages will arrive but rest assured the stork is working hard for all of us and it is just a matter of time now. Saturday arrivals at agency doors is not known at this point but I would say it would be a very lucky agency who got them on Saturday. Monday noonish is looking a whole lot better."

Maybe Monday?

Online adoption sites are buzzing with rumors that the referral packages are on their way from China. At 1 PM today, it was reported that the matches were in the air! Then, a later post clarified that they were still on the ground in China but soon departing. IF these rumors are true, it is possible that The Call could come as early as Monday!!! Stay tuned...we'll try to post some news as soon as we have basic info from the call. Full details and photos will come later in the day.

Disclaimer: These are only RUMORS. No guarantee until the phone rings. If it doesn't happen Monday, just keep your fingers crossed for Tuesday. And please, there's no need for all of us to lose sleep over this...I'll be losing enough for all of us! (I slept in 5-minute increments between 3:30 and 6 this morning.)

Construction Completed!

I have finally finished the construction of E's desk! It has certainly been a learning project. Hopefully the next one will be easier to build and a better job. And as challenging as it has been I'd rather build the next project than paint this one! I will have to disassemble a lot of it to make the paint job look better and then get it all back together in E's bedroom. She'd like it to be a light pink color of course, but mom and dad think something more neutral will be the way to go.

The 100 Wishes Quilt top!

Hooray...the quilt top is DONE! Here it is...see if you can find your square!

And here's EJ relaxing on it...

Healthy Chinese Food?

This story made the news this week, discussing how Chinese food really isn't very healthy for you, thanks to all the fried food and sodium. Darn...I thought I could lose those last few pounds while in China. Of course, when I traveled to Moscow in the early 90s, I lost 10 pounds in 10 days - and I ate at least one meal a day at either McDonald's or Pizza Hut!

Quilt Update

OK, I got a LOT of sewing done in the last week, and the quilt top is nearly complete! I just finished cutting the last few squares. I had miscounted somewhere along the way and was missing three background squares, but they are all ready to go now, so there's no excuse. I think I'll lock myself in the attic for an hour or two tomorrow and finish it. I built the top by building large blocks of about 20-30 squares each, so I just need to finish up those few squares and then sew the 12 big blocks together. Check back tomorrow night - hopefully, there will be a pic to greet you!

Community Day at school

All the 2nd graders at EJ's school celebrated Community Day today. Over the last two months, they have learned a lot about the history of our town. Today, the summed it all up by having a parade around the school (complete with a firetruck and police car), showing off their dancing and singing talent, and then taking us back to their classrooms to show off their projects. We got to see brochures they designed and lots of artwork, including sculpture, drawings of their neighborhoods, and even computer graphics of some of the landmarks in town. It was a really nice presentation.

For chorus they did a rendition of "This Land is Your Land" with the words "This town is our community":

Next up was a circle dance:

Doing her Vanna White impression to show off her sculptures (the one on the left is our house, and the one on the right is her):