http://adoptionandfire.com Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:30:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My life has just been packed to the max with trying to put together this ginormous event, plus my regular work, taking care of the family and trying really hard to tell my friends that I still love them. But right now my life is consumed with this planning. ... http://adoptionandfire.com/2010/02/contemplating-breaking-up-with-the-blog.html Two years ago today we received our referral for Catherine.  What an amazing ride this has been.  It's so hard to believe that it was years ago and not months ago.  It seems like yesterday we got these two cute little photos of her.  The first thing that I noticed ... http://adoptionandfire.com/2010/02/happy-referal-versary.html Chinese New Year is only two weeks away and somehow, someway we have a CNY event to go to nearly every weekend until the end of February.  Our Families with Children From China group has an amazing group of families on the north side of Houston.  The group is so ... http://adoptionandfire.com/2010/01/that-time-of-year.html Right now my life is revolving around our Texas Fallen Heroes Memorial Ride & Cook-Off.  I eat, sleep, and breath this fundraiser pretty much non-stop.  It's getting pretty old around this house and with my friends and family.  I'm pretty sure John is ready to shove me into the hall ... http://adoptionandfire.com/2010/01/mission-control.html Tonight I spent some time with a family that I met a short seven years ago.  I sat at the same dining room table in their home in which we planned their son's funeral.  Seven years ago, I watched a mother stare blankly at a baked potato that her family ... http://adoptionandfire.com/2010/01/reflections.html And it looks like this: It has been freezing or near freezing temperatures in Houston for over a week now.  My birdbath is frozen solid.  We have a bucket on the back porch that is frozen.  This is just not right!  We live on the Gulf of Mexico where it's warm ... http://adoptionandfire.com/2010/01/houston-we-have-a-problem.html We are babysitting John's mother's cat Rosie.  This cat about drives me insane because she talks non-stop (kind of like Catherine), amongst other things.  Anyway, John brought her to the house today in her crate and so she was not a happy camper.  Catherine however was only too happy to ... http://adoptionandfire.com/2010/01/rosie-the-cat.html Catherine turned 32 months today.  Will she really be 3 in 4 months??  When I was putting together the photo montage for last year, I could really see that Catherine made the big leap from babyhood to a full blown toddler.  She grew by leaps and bounds and her development ... http://adoptionandfire.com/2010/01/32-months.html Over the holidays we ran into this rooster that was a little bit on the nutty side.  For some reason he was territorial with the Christmas tent at the Hunt Club Farms.  He came running up to us and started pecking at our feet, chasing us, kicking dust up at ... http://adoptionandfire.com/2010/01/crazy-as-a-rooster.html Make video montages at www.OneTrueMedia.com http://adoptionandfire.com/2010/01/2009-memories.html