My beautiful 9-foot prelit masterpiece! I love putting it up and making it look perfect. Mark and I are thinking that next year we will start a tradition, I put up the "pretty tree" in the living room and we will all go together to pick out a real tree to have as the "family tree" in the family room downstairs.
Speaking of Christmas decorating, when I was pulling out ornaments I was doing what many people do, reminiscing about certain events or reasons why Mark and I bought that particular ornament for each other. One ornament stuck out for me this year though:
Yep, it's just last years. I made this for Mark from a little ornament kit where you use markers to write all over it. I wrote little things about places we had gone together, landmark things in our lives and it felt strange when I looked at it the other day that there was nothing about Ethiopia. The obvious reason for that is because although we had discussed it, adoption was not yet in our hearts fully. It's crazy to think about how things change so drastically in just 12 months of time. Now, I can hardly imagine one hour of a day going by without thinking or talking about Africa or the little one that may already be waiting for us. Shoot, I think I would be surprised if 10 minutes went by and I didn't think about it at least for a second.
Speaking of that little one, the baby has "stuff" now! Not just a onesy or a toy anymore, but a few things! Take a look at the closet in the current office that will be his nursery. (Please note the cleaning job Mark did, it is pretty much just waiting for more "stuff")
I bought him a blanket too, to go with his crib bedding set! (Which very surprisingly to me was purchased within a few hours of my putting it on one of my last blog updates! Whoever you are you are very sneaky! I have tried and tried to find out who it is with no luck. I hope you know that I NEVER thought it would be off the registry, so I apologize for logging in and looking!)
Oh, and for all those of you that I told that we aren't buying anything until after referral day, well, I lied. I'm sorry. It's just really hard, ya know? There are so many cute things out there and it's hard to resist when I simply cannot NOT walk into a baby section at any store anymore.
