Matilda Jane Trunk Show- THIS Saturday!

I just wanted to let you all know that I am having a Matilda Jane *Fall preview* Trunk Show THIS Saturday, at our house. Come and go as you please between 2pm-5pm! The clothing IS mostly girls' clothes, with only a few boy pieces- but they also have a lot of pieces for women that are SO comfy and versatile! These clothes wash and wear VERY well and the children's clothes will re-sale AT FULL PRICE. I love love love the way the children's pieces can mix and match and the simple style of the women's clothes!

If you cannot make it by the house on Saturday, please feel free to create a wishlist on their website and email it to my trunk keeper at breaf@matildajaneclothing.com and she will place your order for you. Make sure to tell her that I am your "Jane". We get credit for these "online" orders as well, and you can order from any of the collections!!

The best part: This trunk show will benefit our adoption! Your orders will help bring Annie home!

Thank you all so, so much for your support! Would love to see you Saturday if you can make it (the clothes are even cuter in person!). If not, check out:

www.matildajaneclothing.com

and create your wishlist!

Overwhelmed.

If you leave tears on your paperwork for the dossier, do you have to have it notarized and apostilled?
I'm guessing yes.

I need someone literally holding my hand and telling me exactly what to do. I just want to do it right and do it quickly.

Can't.breathe.

Oh, wait.... {looking at her picture}



Whatever it takes.

Sigh.

It's so weird to me, this new experience. Never before have we been able to look at a picture of our child, see her, say her name... and not hold her.

Every now and then, like in a church service last night, I get this overwhelming feeling like I'm supposed to be holding her. I can almost feel her in my arms, it's the strangest thing. There are times when we walk out the door and it feels like we are forgetting someone, and not just anyone... her. How can I miss her this much, having never even held her before?

Other adoptive mommas- did you go thru that? It's not just the ache of wanting A child, it's knowing your child is out there and you can't touch her (yet). There is SO much red tape to get thru before she gets home, and I'm sure in hindsight the time will go by quickly, but my arms are so ready. Nothing else is! But my arms most definitely are.

Home visit... CHECK!

We finally got our home visit in yesterday! With our last adoption, I stressed and stressed about getting the house "perfect", and then the visit was so anti-climatic. She checked everything she was supposed to check and we moved on. This time, I wasn't that worked up about it (maybe because there is SO much going on right now?!). The house was already clean- I touched up, made sure everything was in it's place- but I was more concerned with getting dinner made, getting appointments made, getting my girls home from the beach (10 minutes before adoption worker arrived! ha). I knew it wasn't THAT big of deal, so I just kind of offered our house as is- the real deal. (Which, I realize, is typically very clean considering we have three kids at home.)

But golly, when someone is all of a sudden here looking in every room of your house, asking questions about things we had forgotten- it's kind of intimidating! It's tough being judged! All of a sudden, I am so aware of how small our house is and how... um... "lived in", how C's paint doesn't match his bedspread (why re-paint when we are planning to move?), how cluttered our play room can look, how we have absolutely got to decide when to put our house back on the market or Anna Gray will have nowhere to sleep.

Alas, she didn't say our house wasn't ready for us to bring another home or take any of our other kids away, so I guess that means we pass. AND that much is out of the way!