3 months of waiting

In some ways, the last three months have flown by – my new job has kept me hopping and Jrock and I have been up to our ears in renovations. But in another way, it’s been the longest three months of my life. If you are an adoptive parent, you’ll understand – you [...]

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Declined! for life insurance

When we started planning for our new family, Jrock and I decided that we needed some additional life insurance.  We already both had policies, but we decided that if we had kids, I would need more coverage, so he could keep living in the house, etc.  So we called up our old friend B (really, [...]

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let it snow, let it snow, let it snow

     
The wintry white stuff is not that common in Kelowna, so we were delighted when we went to bed last night and could hear the soft quietness of snow falling.  I don’t know how long it will be here, so I snapped some pictures of the yard while it lasted!
Meanwhile, inside, the cats [...]

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Free Rice

This is the neatest site.  Check it out! You play the vocabulary game, and ever right answer you get, the site donates 10 grains of rice to the UN Food Programme.  Who pays for the food?  The advertisers at the bottom of the page! (who I didn’t even SEE, since I had my screen resoluation [...]

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O what a night

   
I decided to surprise Jrock and take him out for a “date night” to the Kelowna Rockets Hockey game.  (I got free box tickets through work.) J really enjoyed the hockey game – it’s not my thing… but the atmosphere was good and it was fun to get out and do something different.
When we got home, [...]

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At the zoo

Our animal family keeps us loved and amused… and sometimes puzzled. Like,
How can this possibly be comfortable? (Vega sleeps like this all the time!)

Why do they always pick the new furniture?

And, how can Hamish possibly sleep through Jrock swearing and yelling at his football team every Sunday?

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It was a virus

aaaahhhhh

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HOW FRUSTRATING!!!!!!!!

This is crazy – I get an email from our local agency today…
All it says is
“See the file.”
BUT!!!!!!! My Norton Anti-virus deleted the file attached. AHHHH!!!!!!! It was “information.zip”
So when I looked up the “virus” it was suppoed to have, it’s a mass mailing worm that sends itself to all the email addresses on the computer.  [...]

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New truck! (to us)

Well, it’s official.  We have graduated to a family-sized vehicle.

It’s a (new to us) 2003 Honda Pilot, with about 100,000km on it.  Leather, which should be good for wiping up kids spills, and plenty of room for kids and dogs and luggage and us too.   In fact, it has a third row of seats that [...]

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Trouble making decisions

It’s so silly… I am having such trouble making some decisions.
My mother-in-law decided she wanted to get “the kids” a present for Xmas,  referral or not.  So she suggested I pick up two little horses.  Jrock and I picked out 2 at Superstore last night… but today at Save-on-food I found 2 more horses.  So this [...]

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Week 11

So we’ve been waiting almost 11 weeks for a referral now… yikes!  It’s so torturous.
It feels like 11 years. 
I’ve started checking my email more frequently – at the middle and end of each day, at least – JIC.
But no news yet.

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Spread the Net

http://www.spreadthenet.org

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PSA

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Sold the Subaru!

Good-bye WRX.  Hello small SUV!
Previous post on car…

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At the Good’ole Hockey Game

Last night I went to see Jrock play hockey for the first time – he’s been playing in a rec league since September and is really enjoying it. 
It’s freezing in the stands at the Capital News Centre, but I brought some hot chocolate and our picnic blanket, and I got to sit with one of the [...]

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