One Day Late!

3 Word Sunday

This 3 word Sunday is very special but it is a day late (oops!). Yesterday, 3/29/08, was a special day for 2 reasons: the first is that it was my wonderful husband Michael's 40th Birthday. Michael, I hope you had a wonderful bithday. You mean the world to me. I love You!

The second special thing about yesterday was that it was our 2 Year LID Anniversay! Waiting has been the hardest thing we have ever done but we both know that when Emma is finally placed in our arms that it will be worth every single minute we have waited! By the way, Jack wants to know where his little sister is!

A day off!

And these are the Days of our Lives... At work we have to turn in our vacation requests at the beginning of the year for the entire year. Who knows what they want to do for the entire year? I haven't got a clue what the year holds for us. In 2006 I thought that we may get a referral toward the end of the year so I planned accordingly. In 2007 I thought maybe we will travel in the summer or fall so I choose my days around our adoption. I took Halloween off because how could I miss Emma's first Halloween and I took Christmas week off so I could enjoy the holidays with her. What was I thinking? Now here it is 2008! In January I sat down to fill out the vacation paper but this year I decided not to plan around Emma. We were heartbroken for 2 years to see all of these days slip by and nothing. So this year I took a variety of day with nothing special planned. Today is one of those days. Now I have nothing planned (since there is a 100% chance of rain and flooding) so this morning I am curled up on the couch catching up on my Tivo'd episodes of Days of our Lives. Sometimes it is nice to climb into their world for awhile and forget about all of the stress going on in my own life. Hope everyone else is having a wonderful Wednesday.

Special 3 Word Sunday!

I wanted to make sure I sent out a very special birthday wish to my wonderful secret pal! I know this will be the very last one without your sweet Tate! Hope you have a wonderful birthday!

3 Word Sunday!

I'm a little late on the 3 word Sunday, but I thought I would join in! Next week I will be a little more creative!

It keeps snowing!

It is now 7:30 am and here are a few updated pictures of the snow. I'll try to get some better ones once I get dressed and venture out.

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!

We finally got a big snow (well, for Kentucky)! I tried to post these pictures of the snow last night but I couldn't get blogger to work. These were taken Friday night after the first storm came in. I can't wait to dust of the sled and go to Mom and Dad's to tackle the hill. But for last night I was very happy to eat some pizza (cheese of course since it is lent) and curl up on the couch with Michael and a good book. More pictures to follow.

I'm really here!

Yes, I really am still alive and well! I am sure you noticed I have a new look here on the blog. I decided that if I was going to FINALLY going to start blogging again, I needed a change. Things have been really busy here in the Kramer house. Staying busy is the only thing that is keeping us sane during this LONG wait. I want to apologize to all my friends who stop by now and then and see that I am no where to be found. Now, that is only half true. The fact of the matter is that while I have am guilty of not posting I have been reading everyone else's blog (I know, that's not very nice!) I guess I forget that you actually want to know what we are up to here. It's really a combination of not really knowing what to blog about and being so busy that I would rather spend my computer time seeing what everyone else is doing! I appreciate all the emails checking in on me and I promise I will try to post more regularly.
Since I last posted we have celebrated our 20, 21, 22, and 23 month LID Anniversary. At this point we still don't have a clue how many more we will have to endure. I keep thinking that each month we are getting one baby step closer to Emma. For those of you who aren't in the adoption world the new referrals should be out this week. It looks like we have finally made it to 2006!! It looks like January 4, 2006 will be the cut off. That is 8 days of referrals (small days but at least there are 8 of them!). That brings us to 84 days away from our LID.
While the wait has grown and grown I felt like we had put our life on hold. We didn't take some much needed vacations, we scheduled our work around the hopes of traveling, we saved and saved, and we kept everything the same. Well, a few months back we decided we needed to start living again (we should have been all along). Don't get me wrong, we still wait, hope and pray for Emma everyday but we know that time keeps moving and we have to move with it. In doing that we have been planning trips and preparing our home to sell. We have been talking about moving back into Louisville for some time but we kept putting it off because of our China trip. Well, the time has come so we have been working hard to get the house in order to put it up for sale this month. I just hope that we can get the house sold and find a place in town before our referral comes (I sure hope it doesn't take that long to sell!) We have already switched Emma's room twice so she will be on to her third before she ever sees it!
Well, I am just rambling now so I will do some more updates later. Just know it's good to be back!