54 Days to Go!!

Well, it looks like referrals have been announced for this month. The cut off date was 1/12/06. Our LID is 3/7/06. It wasn't as big of a batch as we had hoped for but it does get us three days closer to our Gigi! 232 days down...54 more to go!!! Let's hope May brings a big batch along with all those May flowers!

Next Set of Referrals Coming Soon!

The next set of referrals should be announced very soon...I'm sure there will be rumors within the next few days and hopefully the referrals will be out by end of this week or next week. Send out those positive thoughts and prayers that it will be a big batch!! Last month they matched 5 days. Let's hope for double digits this month!!!!

Thank You for Your Support!

To all our friends and family...thank you for your prayers and support over the past week during this uncertain time for us. We have faith that God will bring us our little Gigi when she is ready to come home. It's hard to have patience sometimes especially when your so excited about what's about to happen but we will try. For now we will continue to prepare for Gigi and leave it in God's hands. Thanks again!! Denise & Dan

We Need Your Help!

Pray, pray, pray, please pray...we need your prayers and positive thoughts that these babies are our daughters!

Can this be it??

Is it possible? Can it be? After waiting over two years, and let's face it, waiting much, much longer than that, can we finally be close? There have been so many missed opportunities and we have followed so many promising paths only to find ourselves disappointed once again. We keep building ever-thicker skin and keep reassuring ourselves that even if we did not find her yet, every month our date gets closer. We try not to get too excited, but how can you not when you look into such beautiful, perfect eyes and wonder if these are the eyes of your daughters? There are still so many questions to be answered. Are they healthy? Can we update our information fast enough? Is everything prepared for them? Is it God's plan that Gigi have a sister? What will this wonderful surprise be named? Which of these babies is Gigi? But the biggest question remains...Can this be it?!! Please pray with us that it is!!

Thought For The Day!

When things in life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar...and the 2 cups of coffee...

A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly, he picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was.

The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls. He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was.

The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else. He asked once more if the jar was full. The students responded with a unanimous "yes."

The professor then produced two cups of coffee from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar, effectively filling the empty space between the sand. The students laughed.

"Now," said the professor, as the laughter subsided, "I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life. The golf balls are the important things-your family, your children, your health, your friends, and your favorite passions -- things that if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full. The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your house, and your car. The sand is everything else -- the small stuff.

If you put the sand into the jar first," he continued, "there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls. The same goes for life.If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff, you will never have room for the things that are important to you.

Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. Play with your children. Take time to get medical checkups. Take your partner out to dinner. Play another 18. There will always be time to clean the house and fix the disposal.

Take care of the golf balls first -- the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand."

One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the coffee represented. The professor smiled. "I'm glad you asked. It just goes to show you that no matter how full your life may seem, there's always room for a couple of cups of coffee with a friend."

Furniture and Fun

Today I built the second of Gigi's toy shelves for her bedroom. I built one on Monday and, despite my complete lack of any handyman skills whatsoever, it came out quite well if I do say so myself. When I got home today, I still had a good amount of time before Denise would be home and I decided to shock everyone (well...Denise anyway) and put the second one together while I waited. It went far quicker today and I did not even injure myself this time (nasty scratch on my leg while I built the first...still not sure how I did that). Now they are both sitting side by side in her room-one on its side and the other standing up straight. It looks like a "J" lying on its side and is made up of 16 squares between the two shelves. Her toys and such will go inside those squares and her TV will sit (securely) on the lower of the shelves. This will also leave room for her magic wall on the opposing wall...more on that in a future blog. In any case, the point is that, little by little, Gigi's room is starting to actually take on the characteristics of a little girl's room. I just can't wait to see how she likes it!!

229 days down 57 days to go!!!!!

March referrals have been made through 1/9/06 adding another 5 days to our countdown. It's not a very big batch but we'll take what we can get! Every day down gets us closer to our little princess!!