I'm not sure why it is always the little things that make or break things for me. When we first got on the wait list, our boy vs girl numbers were 33 apart. Of course we thought we would get a boy b/c of this. As time has gone (on and on) the numbers have crept closer together. Hard to believe they are now only 6 apart. I'm going on a limb to assume we will be getting a boy...even with our numbers so close. 6 girls would have to come into HH and be referred out before it would be our turn. THE NEXT boy that comes in...is ours!! It is fun to see the beginnging of the end. We have a long journey yet in front of us, but it is fun to see the light at the end of the tunnel. I can now go into a store and drool over the blue things. (and maybe buy a thing or two) We can't buy any clothes yet b/c we don't know age/size yet. It is fun though to be seriously thinking about our boy!!! I have to tell about my fun deal that we found on crib bedding. We weren't even looking for a crib set. I was looking for some sheets. We had gotten a blue/brown crib bumper this summer. We went out on a limb and spent $5 for it. If we ended up getting a girl, we would just be out $5. Well, we happen to run into some clearance bedding. This whole crib set was $60 clearanced to $36. LOVE it!!!! Got the matching crib mobile for $22 down to $12. Sweet!!! I so wanted to do the room blue/brown. I've planned it for so long. Now with this bedding....things change. We will still do chocolate brown on the bottom. We now will do a sage-like green on the top half. I looked at borders. They are sure expensive. I think we will just do a chair rail with a different color. There is a very talented man in town that is doing some art work for our baby's new room. I had told him our colors were going to be blue/brown. IF there is a lot of blue/brown in his painting, then we will have tan on the top. If not, we will do the green. Something so silly like bedding can make me so excited. I've slowly purchased some other things, but getting this bedding, knowing we are getting a boy, hoping it is soon is just so much fun!!!!
Currently I'm doing okay with sitting at #1. I refuse to get the room ready until we have a picture to stay at. I'm hoping that getting the room done will be a nice distraction between referral and court. We know that our case workers are out of the office this week so I can relax and not freak every time the phone rings. Last I heard, there were no unreferred babies at HH which means our phone can't ring anyway. Hoping/praying that soon some new kiddos come into HH and that it doesn't take long to have their paperwork ready. It still doesn't seem real that we are #1 and that the next baby is OURS!!! I hope our wait isn't weeks or months. We have waited so long. The time to see that precious face is so close. I always refer back to God's timing. We know this will all work out in God's perfect time fream. I hope/pray I can have patience and peace until HIS time is here.
Thanks for following our journey to our little Ethiopian. It has been a long, hard journey that is far from being over. I had hoped we would be home before the school year ended and then we would have all summer to bond. I'm not sure if that is realistic anymore. Time will tell. It sure is fun to listen to everyone that is so excited for us. That means a lot. Thanks for the thoughts and prayers. Please continue.
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