Recovering Noah

I have to admit, I broke every single one of my New Year's Resolutions (most on the second day!) except for one... staying off the computer.   I don't know how I've managed it, but I have and it's weird and exhilarating, and lonely all at the same time. But that's for another post. Right now, I want to let you know that some amazing things have happened on the adoption front. FIRST... we received Naveen's NOC from Ind*a. It took four months to the day, but, by george, it came. SECOND... since our judge is requiring two trips to Ind*a, we are *expecting* our first trip to be in about 6-8 weeks. Yay! And yikes! So much to take care of in the meantime.. THIRD... I attempted a fundraiser and it was a disaster. I won't go into it right now, but let's just say it involved trying to make glass tile necklaces only to have them accidentally get  knocked off the table while they were drying and they ended up getting dog hair and dirt in the glue. Pleas...

One thing I've noticed in doing this Year End Review  is that I severely lack in the "Mommy Who Takes Photos" Department. Did you know that Sim turned 40 in August and I turned 38 and we don't have a single picture? And all of my kids had birthdays in the Fall, but I barely have enough pictures of them to even prove that I actually have  children. Sim has a birthday and turns "Lordy, Lordy, Hot and Forty!" and do I have a picture? Nope. Eli turned 8 in September. Any photos? Nada . Nandi loses her first tooth.   Oh. Am I supposed to take a picture of that? Noah turns 10 and enters the double digits.   *Crickets* We celebrated a little holiday that I like to call Thanksgiving. I vaguely remember something involving a lot of turkey and the color orange. Christmas came. We celebrated Jesus' birth, opened presents, left food for the reindeer, had a huge Southern breakfast and took lots and lots of ....  oh wait, no we didn't. One o...

This blog post was interrupted by a) a sinus headache b) severely interrupted sleep resulting in severely irritable momma and c) the words of Confucius. Confucius say... "When one makes a goal to eat 5 servings of fruits and vegetables a day and one chooses to cram all those fruits and vegetables into one's body one hour before bedtime, one can except to spend one's time with gastrointestinal distress." Word, Confucius. Word. On the first day of my goal to better health and wealth in 2012, I realized something. You can't eat fruits and vegetables if you haven't been grocery shopping since the week before Christmas. One can only survive on leftover ham shank for so long. So, at 6.30pm, I had consumed the following towards my goal of eating 5 servings of fruit and veg a day ... 1. A piece of watermelon chewing gum 2. A lemon with salt on it 3. A bowl of salsa and... in order to get my orange veg in... 4. Half a bag of sweet potato chips When Si...

Happy 2012!! I saw how other bloggers did a year-end review on their blog, and I thought about doing one yesterday, but that would've meant posting THREE times in one day. And since I've posted maybe a handful in the last year , I thought it might be overkill. Plus, I was too embarrassed because then everyone would know that I did absolutely nothing  yesterday except veg out and write goals about how I'm not going to do that anymore. Which, um, I've already broken. It's 8.30am and I've nothing except fix breakfast, break up two arguments between Nandi and Eli and spent the last 30 minutes going through our pictures on Picasa bemoaning the fact that I am possibly the worst mother in the world for not taking pictures of my kids more often. BUT... I will say with pride that I've only had one cup of coffee this morning, no gluten, and I haven't driven thru McDonald's.  Yay me! So, without further adieu, I present OUR LIFE IN 2011 (or just snipp...