Feeling Blah...

It's only January 7th and my New Year's attitude of being inspired and motivated has already crashed & burned! On New Year's Day I purged every room in the house and proceeded to lock all the give-aways in the guest room where they wait to be delivered to Goodwill. Earlier this week I cooked all day to have dinners ready to go so I just have to reheat in the evening. I've made tons of contacts for my business and am now just waiting for that to take off. We don't expect any news regarding Cole for a long while and my plan to keep busy and to keep time moving along is slowly backfiring. I need a project...

Meanwhile, Nate amuses us more every day. This is such a fun age. During my marathon cooking event, I noticed it had gotten really quiet (never a good sign) and looked around the corner to see Nate consuming cereal by the handful:

Now I know why the previous owners of our house (who also had small kids) had a lock on the pantry door. We are now using it regularly!

He has also mastered the stairs so we can put away the baby gate for a little bit (until Cole arrives). He cracks us up with his methods of going down - sliding down so fast on his tummy or bumping along on his bottom.

Lucy has quickly caught on to her influence over her brother. I casually mentioned the other day how she had a copycat and she just loves that phrase - it's all I hear now! We have had many talks about how God made her the big sister on purpose, so she could be a good example for her brothers and teach them how to obey...

We are going to start a little homeschooling next week. She will go to public school Kindergarten next year but I really want to get a jumpstart on her reading. (I used to teach so I know how difficult it is to learn later rather than sooner). Mark has already been teaching her the Bible using his awesome curriculum he wrote. They just finished studying the minor prophets and are on to the writings!

I'm busy praying for all the other adoptive families - hopefully things will start moving soon with referrals and other news! 2009 is going to be great...eventually. :)