Adoption, Muffins, and Room Redesign

I was drinking my coffee around 9:30 this morning.  Dan got the coffee ready for me in advance, so my only job was to push "On". I'll take this kind gesture over chocolates or flowers any day!  The kids slept in until 9, which has become routine around here (although I hesitate to put that in writing, in fear that it will come to an end!).  The phone rang and it was Dan calling to tell me that, based upon the Fed Ex charge on our credit card statement it looks like our dossier left for Ethiopia on Saturday! Wow, what a morning!!!!

So we made strawberry muffins!

Shifting gears, I went to the fabric store this weekend to pick out fabrics for Indigo's bedroom.  We never did a nursery or special room for our kids here because they've never really had their own rooms until recently.  They slept in our bed, then in our room, and also across the hall from us, but our house layout is "master on the main" and our kids' bedrooms are upstairs. They are finally independent enough to enjoy sleeping up there now.

But we have some work to do.  Here's Indi's bedroom now: 

Dan's taken apart most of his drum set, but one remnant remains. And check out the curtain old, tattered quilt that Dan nailed to the wall after we discovered while on vacation that Indi slept longer in a dark room. We have no shame!

 


I'm thinking of doing a fairy theme for her. I found these panels two weeks ago at the fabric store, but brought Dan back to see them this weekend and weigh in.

While I was looking at some other fabrics, the kids became increasingly bored and restless, so Dan took them outside to give me some peace (thank you, hon!) and he captured this sequence of Indi:

He also took this pic of Jude:



We are loving our new camera!