Practice?

I have not been sleeping well lately. It all started last weekend when I had a slumber party with my friend Nicole. We stayed up super late, but then I had to wake up early for Lifebook day. I didn't take a nap afterward, and had a heck of a time falling asleep that night. This whole week I have had a hard time falling asleep, but having to wake up at my normal early time for week, and it makes me so tired!! I figure I'm just getting practice for future sleepless nights as a mom. Moms - how do you do it and function the next day? I worry that I'm going to be such a bad mom b/c I feel like I can barely function when I'm so tired. Dave says that once I have something to actually stay awake for (i.e. the kids), I'll have more energy to get things done during the day. I hope he's right!! I'm no spring chicken anymore, and I feel it as I inch closer and closer to 30!!

Lately we've been hearing from lots of people (4 in one week) asking us if we got our referral. I e-mailed my grandma the other day to see how she was doing and mentioned that the wait for our referral was going well, we are more than 6 months into it. I also wrote that we don't expect to hear anything until 2009 about a referral. She then e-mailed me back with this, "I'm coming up in May (next month) for an appointment. Hopefully you'll have your babies by then!!" Ugh. I love her to bits and pieces, but for some reason that put me in a bad mood that day. What do I say to the people who continually ask us, "Have you gotten your referral yet??" Dave has been patiently educating them on just how long the referral will be, but my patience is wearing thin. It starts to remind me of just how much longer we have to wait. Believe me, the entire world will know when we've gotten our referral. No one needs to fear being left out of that news :)

On Saturday we are going to the CSC banquet (Children's Shelter of Cebu in the Philippines). I'm so excited for this!! There are lots of fun things planned for the banquet, like a guy who was one of the first children at CSC, and also the brother of the man who started CSC (who is very funny). There will be a slideshow of the children at CSC, and and introduction of the families at the banquet who have adopted from that children's home.