I hate to budget, so I have decided that I *WILL* make enough money with my business(es) to not have to worry about budgeting. I don't care about the car (it won't fit 3 baby seats anyhow...) and I don't care about the trips (who'd watch my furry 4 legged kids?) but I do care about what it would mean to my family to not have to worry anymore about ( Read more... )

After seriously evaluating what we as a family need to do to make ends meet and make this adoption happen, I am going to work. My Tastefully Simple business while fun, is alot of work to bring in decent cash - about 3-4 parties each week. I am putting Tastefully Simple on the back burner, will continue to do my re-order business with that but ( Read more... )

Great Wall China Adoption ( Read more... )

Mike's dad died in the night... death just sucks...

I had to put CoCo to sleep today.... she was such a good dog, but such a tired old girl. She had a stroke last week and it just went downhill from there...

Hope that she is pain free and happy at the Rainbow Bridge...

I'm gonna miss that silly dog...

I spent an hour or so at the Oakland County courthouse today, getting 'certified' birth certificates for us, and a new adoption decree for Katie. We need all of that to send to the CCAA for our adoption. The paperchase is overwhelming. I need to get so many papers, then have them notarized, then take them all to the Sec. of State and have them ( Read more... )

We've embarked on a new chapter in our happy little lives ( Read more... )

stomach flu sucks

Katie can blow raspberries on my tummy. But she likes to just make the noise whenever she can, and it sounds like she has alot of gas ( Read more... )

Especially when you get up before 7am... crap. I am ready for a nap ( Read more... )