New Babies

These little bluebirds just hatched this week. The nest is in the window of our sound/tv room at the church.

You're so fly.

Yesterday at Lowe's I introduced Nathan to what a Venus Fly Trap was. He wasn't too keen at first on the idea of a plant that "bites", but eventually warmed to the idea of us taking one home. Shortly after getting it home, we gave it a nice big juicy fly for a snack. It was really neat seeing the little "jaws" on the plant close up around it.

Feline Supervisor

Tonight after our little guy was in bed, I brought out the church laptop and began working on a Quarterly Report for church. Molly (the cat we've had the longest of our three, and the three-legged cancer survivor) decided to look on and supervise my work. This was, of course, in between attempts to solicit me to pet her, which I obliged.

It's been a long, but mostly good day. our family helped out with Operation Inasmuch projects in the community in the AM, and I took the little guy to see "Monsters vs. Aliens" while Sharon went to visit her mother in the hospital.

Goodbye to part of me.

Today was a day for good-byes. After several years of putting it off and just plain "out of sight and out of mind" reasons, I finally had an appointment with the dermatologist (which took me three months to get in to this doctor). I went seeking to have what I thought was a mole removed near my left ear. The doctor said that he believed it to be a "cherry angioma" but they'll send it off to make sure. It was located in a place where it was always being "provoked" (nurse's words, not mine) by shaving, combing hair, etc. Anyway, long story short - it's gone. It's somewhat of a shame, as I'd gotten quite attached to it. (RIM SHOT!!!) It will be SORELY missed! Ha! I kill me!

The Great Mary Kay Escape

Since Sharon hosted a Mary Kay Party at our house today, the little guy and I "escaped" to Salisbury where we did some bartering for a few new Transformer toys. After, we stopped by Subway for a $5 footlong (do you have the jingle stuck bin your head now?)

That's Old School

Now that's "Old School"! Our organist showed me this old hymnal at church today. I had to chuckle, as this expression means something a bit different these days.

China Adoption - where we are (sigh)

We get an update as to the status of our adoption "dossier" about once every month. As of right now, sadly we still have about 16 months to go before receiving a referral, which would be July of 2010. This is a couple of months further than what we had been anticipating - we had thought May. And since you usually don't travel until a month or so after that. This may mean we wouldn't travel until August, which would be a horrible time with Sharon and Nathan needing to start a new school year. Things could change, but the wait has been getting gradually longer and not shorter for over a year now. When we started, the wait was supposed to only be 18 months. It is now 37 months. This is somewhat sad news for us, but it does give us more time to save money and make other preparations.