Little updates.

A few updates:

We will be doing a fundraiser soon. We have talked about doing one, but we were not sure what to do. We threw around a few ideas, and then set the whole thing aside. I came across Adoption Bug T-shirts back in July and just love them. Last month I found out that they were going to be setting up fundraiser pages for families in the process of adopting. How it works is this: Our family and friends (and strangers I guess) can go to our web store on the adoption bug website, and there you will have 4 t-shirt options, related to adoption, to choose from. 30 -40% of the sales go to our adoption. When we get our placement we let adoption bug know, and they send a check of all the money we have raised straight to our agency. I will let you know when it is up and going, and will have the link posted here as well as a few other places. It will be up in the next week or two. I am really excited about this, and I think that the T-shirts are really cool.

Our agency has decided to go "big time" (just kidding), but they are adding a page on their website with pictures and the profiles of all of their waiting families (like us). I am not sure how I will go about sharing that with people. I like to keep my blog semi-private. I wasn't going to give out our last names, the town we live in, or who our agency is, so I guess I will not be posting the link to that. I do want to share it with our friends and family though, so maybe I will send it out in an email. I was pretty excited this week when I got the information for that in the mail. Who knows, maybe it will help us to place faster! Who could say no to our cute faces? :) When I asked Joe to help me fill out the paperwork he said "I thought you said we were done". I guess in adoption, you are never really done!

My plan for this weekend is to repaint the spare room. I took a look at it last night and it's looking pretty bad. I think I must have bought whatever was cheapest last time I painted, and only did one coat. It's really not a very good paint job. It's probably because of all the work we had to do before we could paint. That room had very old wallpaper in it, and the walls had been trashed by the three little boys that shared it. Yep, 3 little boys all in one little bedroom. I think the room is 12 by 12 maybe. I am not even sure how a family of 5 lived in our house. Everyday I think about how I am going to make it work with only 1 little one. Anyway, I was probably so tired after prepping the room that I did a lazy job painting it.

Speaking of lazy, I have been so tired. I work 47-50 hours a week as a nanny. Some may say that I don't have a hard job, and some times I think it is pretty easy, but other times it is really hard. I care for 3 kids, ages 5, 3, and 1, plus I do a lot of house work. I have been wondering how I am going to add one more to the mix, and how I am going to have the energy. Last night when I got home from work I was so tired. I ate some dinner from the microwave, and then sat in a chair and rested my eyes while I half watched TV. As I was going in and out of sleep I was wondering (what would I do if I have a baby here). I get about 7 hours of sleep a night now. Is that enough? I don't feel like it is, but I think it is suppose to be enough. I've been thinking about going to the Doctor to see if there is a reason why I am so tired all the time. I have a couple of theory's of my own. One is that I am unhealthy and maybe it's the bad food that I eat that makes me so tired. Another is that I let my two dogs sleep in bed with me, and they move around a lot and tend to wake me up, so I am not getting a good nights sleep. The other is that I may have something else going on. I have never felt rested after a nights sleep and wonder if it is something else.