free is a very good price...

in my quest to find things to do to pass the ever so long time stretched far ahead of me, i went ahead and checked our library for some of the materials suggested to me. i am very excited that our library has a copy of the national geographic series "africa" and it is currently on hold for me. also on hold for me is a copy of "are those kids yours?: american families with children adopted from other countries" which looks like it may be interesting for sure. i'm going to pick them up this week so danny and i can get started.

also i feel like i should point out that it isn't like i have a ton of free time. but when it comes to the excitement of adoption, it is so huge in my heart that i am unsatisfied with "just living" if that makes sense. i want to prepare for our future baby, take steps to learn everything we can so we can incorporate ethiopian foods and traditions into our current family now. all of the kids are very excited to learn as well and it feels really good to include everyone as we go.

kiya and i had a ton of fun today... my latest project is a homemade stencil! masking tape style, so free to me since we had it on hand... i'll post a pic of the final project once completed, but for now, here's a peak at the stencil:

we start our parents in process class this friday, with the second class on saturday. those classes cover modules 1-4 which puts us another step closer in the process. we hope to start our home study this month... still waiting on fingerprinting to come in - so aggravating that things take forever!

sweet thing cayden keeps telling us: "i think i will love piper!" 6 years old is such a fun age.