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Philly Area mom, Life forever changed by adoption

2 1/2 days

That’s how long my kids will have spent in school over the course of 3 weeks. Between two scheduled days off around MLK Jr. Day, 2 days of missed school from being totally sick (not just a little sick), an astounding number of snow days, and our Disney trip…which starts tomorrow…only 2 1/2 days of school in 3 weeks time. Oh, the adjustment back is going to be hard…but I’m not going to think about that now.

Right now, I’m a crazy lady.

While Mark did this early this morning due to 12+” of snow (sigh)…

and then headed off to try to get some work done,

I was trying to keep these monkeys busy (okay, I have been depending on the tv a bit more than usual today–though I’m happy to say legos are entertaining them right now)

so that I could do this….

PACK! Yes, there are outfits laid out for each child for each day that I am putting in ziploc bags and labeling so that mornings in Disney are as painless as possible so we can get out of the room and get to the fun! (There is something I simply enjoy about zipping ziplocs so that they are basically vacuum sealed…does that make me weird?)

Can’t forget some of the fun stuff I worked on last week while the kids were sick and sleeping 20 hours straight….

pillowcases for characters to sign…love how these came out…

I am totally digging these shirts I made for Evan and Drew…Disneyish but not over the top…well, maybe  a little over the top, but doesn’t scream Mickey…

My sister Erin got in on some craftiness and made these books for us too–It’s a blank journal made out of an old Golden book. How darling is that for picture drawing, journaling, passing the time at meals, etc. etc.
I’m pumped. Now back to packing.

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Sunday Snapshots {A visit from Tink}

Her front tooth had been loose for over a month. Having only lost one tooth so far and very anxious to lose another, she was wiggling it like crazy….until I mentioned that it would be fun to have it come out in Disney. No more wiggling. Now, it became her mission to hold onto this thing at least until this coming Friday when we arrive at Disney World. I confess that I was into the mission myself–I mean, they have to do something magical for kids who lose a tooth there, right?

But, yesterday, when she woke up, we saw this…

and I’m not talking about her Medusa-like hair do. I’m talking about her nasty front tooth. Loose teeth make me feel a little woozy. Ick.

Mark was after her all day to let him pull it wiggle it. Nope. She wouldn’t let him. But, a trip to Chick Fil A for dinner and some play in the kids indoor playground did the trick. Drew rushed out to me, yelling “Ashlyn lost her tooth!” Just what every mother in the place wanted to hear, I’m sure. I rush in there with napkins, picturing a crime scene. But, no, this tooth was so ready to come out that it just dropped on out when she bumped her face on some equipment. No crime scene, and nothing a little ice cream cone couldn’t take care of.

So, she put her tooth under her pillow and found this letter there this morning.

Poor Tinkerbell. I bet it was hard to leave that 70 degree sunny weather to come up here to the 9 degree night we had last night just for a tooth.

Ni Hao Yall

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Sigh of Relief

I have never been so happy to hear a medical professional tell my on the phone that my kids had “viral infections.” They DO NOT have mono! (insert sigh of relief here) I have never heard of a virus making a child sleep 20 hours a day. This one seriously took them out. But, they are improving. And, our Disney trip is not in jeopardy. (insert another sigh of relief here)

Of course, viral infection means that the rest of the family could get it yet…which would not be good. So, meet my new friend.

Who am I kidding though? Antibacterial hand stuff isn’t really going to help when I have a toddler who somehow climbs up on the sink and steals people’s toothbrushes, sneaks sips of water bottles even when I’ve tried to tell the kids to keep them hidden, and enjoys any other such germ-sharing tricks. Perhaps she’s got all sorts of immunities built up and will kick those germs to the curb. I’m praying that is so.

For now, I’m simply enjoying answered prayers already that the kids are on the mend, and I can keep preparing them for Disney World and reading our Disney books and doing all that Disney stuff I like to do (I’m presently somewhat addicted to fabric paint and being home with sick kids this week has given me too much time to feed my addiction…).

Thankful Ashlyn could get out of bed and be awake enough to watch a show while trying out an old double stroller I am thinking about bringing since I am not sure how the kids will do now with all the walking–they are watching Cinderella, of course. Evan’s out of bed too–though he wasn’t when I snapped this shot.

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Has it really been a year?

A year ago right about now, I was crying, heart broken that the baby girl I so wanted to be our Lydia may not be her. We prayed. We prayed specifically and fervently. And, the Lord answered our prayers and showed us that this little peanut who we had seen for the first time at 10pm the night before on January 18th, 2010 and had already started to fall in love with

was now this round, bundled peanut in an update we received on January 20th at 8:29pm. 

And, we knew she was going to be our girl. I danced around the dining room and couldn’t stop telling Mark, “We have a daughter…do you know that?” And, we named her Lydia Mei that night.

I had been thinking about yesterday night and today and tomorrow for some time, recognizing that the anniversary was coming up and wondering how to remember it in a significant way. All that went by the wayside, however, because we have been dealing with some seriously sick children. Evan and Ashlyn have been very sick since the weekend and had blood work today to confirm their doctor’s suspicion of mono. Mono. Not what a mommy wants to hear when she is practically already packing suitcases for our trip to Disney World in 9 days. The doctor tried to put me at ease and tell me that given their young ages, they could bounce back in only 7-10 days and be okay for the trip as long as we don’t push them too hard. Praying that they start to show some improvement by the weekend so that we don’t have to make any very hard decisions.

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