Starting to prepare....

I have been thinking "I really have to start on the baby's room", every weekend for ....oh about the last 3 months. After several half hearted attempts this weekend I got a coat of primer on the walls....gone is the bright yellow with the zoo animals painted on (those darn zoo animals took 4 coats of primer to cover!), even with just a coat of primer the room looks 100% better. I've disliked this room since I bought the house, so was happy to see them go. This week I'll get my sister to help me get the box spring out to the curb and there will actually be room to move around and get the real paint and border up...yahoooo!!!

Ciera is a bit ticked off at me as she keeps asking if she can help me paint and I say yes later....and then I paint when she is sleeping...it's like magic elves show up to paint and then when she gets up everything is different! I will be doing the same to her room this week. Her baby border is down (also done while she was sleeping... in my room) and her new big bed is coming on Thursday so I have to paint the bottom half of her walls and get her new border up before Thursday.

Two familes who were ahead of me for Karaganda have arrived in Karaganda, I have asked one of the moms to take lots of pictures of the others kids as my second child is there somewhere. My thoughts are with these two familes tomorrow as they head to the babyhouse to meet their children.

Starting from the not so beginning!

I decided it's about time to start a blog for my second journey to parenthood, to my second child, to Kazakhstan. In reality this journey started about 2 1/2 years ago when I started to dream about having a second child, my stumbling block was how to make it a reality. Once I figured that out it was all systems go....only to be have some of the inevitable delays thrown in. If there is one thing that is certain in international adoption....it's uncertainty! But the end result is so very worth all the delays and stumbling blocks and I know firsthand from experience that the child that joins our family will most certainly be the perfect child for me and my family and the real reason for the delay is.....this child is just not ready for us yet.

So please join in on our journey to the little person who Ciera calls "our baby"!!!!