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!