Good Grief! We're late with another update...we'll try harder next time, I promise!
Not much is happening on the adoption front, but we're making progress on the home improvement front!
Last Saturday was a gorgeous day, so we got outside & got ourselves busy. I dug up the dead tulip bulbs in the front flowerbed in anticipation of shrub planting later this spring. David weed-whacked (how do you spell that?) behind the garage and around the A/C unit and sprayed everything down with weed killer to start the process of cleaning up and getting ready to mulch. We then spent about three hours cleaning the garage. What a mess! We threw out so much trash - it was amazing the stuff that we were holding on to! We also put stuff up into the attic storage - what a difference it makes out there to clear the floor.
We've also made decisions about paint colors for inside the house. We're getting a few bids to have it painted before we fully decide if this is going to be a DIY project or not.
Slow and steady wins the race, right?
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Friday, April 3, 2009
Time keeps on slippin
Well, we missed our intended update that's supposed to occur every two weeks. Sorry about that!
There's really nothing to report, though. A few of our friends who didn't previously know have been informed of our plans, and we've started considering all the things we still need to do before our home inspection, but we don't even really get our orientation until next month.
I think Ann is planning on having some friends help with a scrapbooking party/weekend sometime in the next couple of months, but I don't think we've made any specific plans. Me? I'm thinking more about finances and tax refunds and picking up a little extra cash with performances. (For those of you who might not know, in addition to my full-time job, I make a little bit of money doing comedy performances. It's not a lot, by any means, but when you're saving up for an adoption, every little bit helps.) Heck, I've even started trying to come up with creative things to raise some cash. For example, those of you who have eaten Ann's cooking: how much would you pay for a completely catered dinner at your house? I know how much I would pay. If we could only find someone with a deep checkbook and an insatiable hunger, I think Ann's cooking could finance TWO adoptions.
(I'm joking here. We're not actually expecting anyone to finance our adoption for us. But seriously, how incredible is her cooking? Right?)
We think we've decided on colors to paint various rooms, and some furniture rearrangement that will help. Now, we just need things to settle down a little bit so we can actually get this all done.
There's really nothing to report, though. A few of our friends who didn't previously know have been informed of our plans, and we've started considering all the things we still need to do before our home inspection, but we don't even really get our orientation until next month.
I think Ann is planning on having some friends help with a scrapbooking party/weekend sometime in the next couple of months, but I don't think we've made any specific plans. Me? I'm thinking more about finances and tax refunds and picking up a little extra cash with performances. (For those of you who might not know, in addition to my full-time job, I make a little bit of money doing comedy performances. It's not a lot, by any means, but when you're saving up for an adoption, every little bit helps.) Heck, I've even started trying to come up with creative things to raise some cash. For example, those of you who have eaten Ann's cooking: how much would you pay for a completely catered dinner at your house? I know how much I would pay. If we could only find someone with a deep checkbook and an insatiable hunger, I think Ann's cooking could finance TWO adoptions.
(I'm joking here. We're not actually expecting anyone to finance our adoption for us. But seriously, how incredible is her cooking? Right?)
We think we've decided on colors to paint various rooms, and some furniture rearrangement that will help. Now, we just need things to settle down a little bit so we can actually get this all done.
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