Anyway, let's play a little bit of catch up.
THANKSGIVING:
It was awesome! We went up to the cabin on Mt. Hood where there was a much smaller crowd this year, but still more than 20 people. On the way from our home to my parents where we were meeting one of my aunts and carpooling, Mark was following behind me in his car and somehow spun off the road. I was about one minute in front of him, on the blue tooth chatting with him when I heard him scream and say "and the car is dead" so I had to turn around and see his car wrecked. The pics of his accident should be at the bottom of this link...I'm having a hard time with blogger right now. THANKFULLY he walked away from the accident with no injuries whatsoever and wasn't even sore the next day...where as, I wasn't in the car and was super sore the next day. My parent's were sort of selling their Honda so we bought that car off of them as at this stage in life, we need to have two cars to make our lives work.
MY BIRTHDAY:
My parents came back from Haiti and we went to celebrate at Rhinelander's for dinner. It was delicious! I really enjoy fondu and chicken schnitzel so I like that I can eat them both in the same place and I don't have to do the dishes afterwards ;) It was a good but uneventful birthday. I cannot wait for next year (hopefully) when we have a little one to make the day that much more joyous!
CHRISTMAS: We always spend a lot of time running back and forth between families so it is a great holiday, but busy! So we got to see both sides of our families this year. Again, uneventful but great! Holidays are tough for me...because I really just want to share it with our baby that God is just taking His sweet time to give us so every holiday that passes reminds us that we are childless which sometimes becomes tears of sadness. But I keep reminding myself it's all in due time...
CURRENTLY: I'll do a blog post on adoption stuff later but I am currently in Raleigh, North Carolina visiting a really good and influential (in my life) friend/mentor and her husband. It is SO SO SO good to be out here and relaxing and escaping my life for a little bit. We had a tough situation around Christmas time that I won't be sharing details of but it was rough emotionally on me so I decided to find cheap airfare and book it out of town! Thankfully this friend and her husband (and especially Mark) were on board with my plan because this is so refreshing for my soul! I have only been here for 27 hours as I write this at 1:30 AM Raleigh time but I already feel so refreshed! I have only met her husband one other time before this-and am so glad to get to know him a little bit better and to see my friend in such a happy situation in her life and marriage. So if you think about it-if you could say a prayer for Mark this weekend as he is holding down the fort back home that'd be great. I think I'm going to head off to bed..but I wanted to at least give you a little update about our lives outside of adoption since our lives don't solely revolve around adoption-just most of it ;)
Here are the pics of the accident (for the record the car was totaled):
