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Tuesday, January 31, 2006

"I'm a people person!".....

My husband and I have been working on our autobiographies for our agency---the LAST bit of info. we need in order to send in our official application.
Our agency sent us a "simple guideline" to "help" us with our endeaver. FYI, if you really wanted to help, you'd just let us wing it!! Anyway, now we feel pressured to answer every question point by point in depth. Keep in mind, there are about 50 questions.
Now I know how every Miss America wannabe feels when they get that microphone stuck in their face during the "Interview Portion": they have like 30 seconds to be well spoken, charming, well informed, poised and most importantly "genuine".
How, oh how do you sell yourself without sounding like a pompous, arrogant fool? Maybe it's just me, but I've always had trouble tootin' my own horn.
So, for the purpose of my autobiography, I asked my husband what he thought my strengths were. He said "Uh, you cook really well and are good at all that woman stuff."..............thanks honey! (note to myself, re-think my answer that said hubby always boosts my ego!!)
To be fair, he is a great guy who shows me every day how much he loves me. I guess at that moment he just felt like "Miss Indiana" with the mic in his face!!

Sunday, January 29, 2006

Blogger virgin!

Well, here I am bloggy world!! I've been perusing other blogs (Ok, lurking!) and I thought once I actually had something to blog about, I'd jump right in. So, here goes.
My family has decided to adopt a baby girl from China. Yay!!! We have picked an agency and our pre-application has been approved---we are OFFICIALLY good enough to parent a child, which I would assume makes our 8 year old son breathe a huge sigh of relief!!
We received the "real" application in the mail last Friday and are still trying to wrap our minds around the whole process. Yikes! I mean we KNEW it was going to be a lot of 1)paperwork, 2)red tape, 3)money and 4)time, but until you see it right there in black and white, I think you get lulled into a false sense of security or bravado or something---"I can do that" "I won't freak out"----so much for the strong facade! I'm already a mess just thinking about it, and we're barely at the beginning stages. So, I'm hoping that this blog will help me to cope with the next 2 years or so! How exactly do you write an auto-biography that covers 100 questions point by point without sounding like an essay test?!
Anyway, I will continue to post as much as I can through this looooong and winding journey. Some days may be random ramblings, some days I may actually have some important info. to share. It'll be interesting for everyone!
The one thing I do know is that I cannot wait to see my baby girl and in the end, it'll all be worth it!!

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