Mommy ~ Make Up Your Mind!!

This week we decided to brave the cold weather and go out for a walk. It was a beautiful afternoon with snow lightly falling and Hannah thoroughly enjoyed herself. She was none too impressed in the house at first when I began to bundle her into her snowsuit though! After donning her snow pants, jacket, hat, boots, mitts and scarf we were finally ready to hit the road! She looked adorable all bundled up with just her little eyes showing and we really enjoyed the walk. Hannah was awake for less than 5 minutes before dozing off and staying asleep for then entire hour we were out. I'll tell you, I have a whole new appreciation for our local by-law that says sidewalks must be shovelled within 24hours of a snowfall. Pushing her stroller in the places that weren't cleared was rough and we even had to use the road a couple of times.


Something neat happened during our walk too! I was mailing a few photos to her SWI to show them how she's grown (OK....it's a very late Christmas card...lol!) and when we got to the convenience store where the post office is the gentleman from the post office was there collecting the mail. He was leaving the store when I entered but must have noticed the envelope in my hand as he came back in solely to get my letter. As I left the store I noticed his truck was still there and I realized he looked familiar. I tapped on the window and when he rolled it down I asked if he had been on this route for a while? He said yes and I asked if he remembered the day last year when he'd waited for someone to come with important papers? He said that he remembered me and I was able to show him Hannah sleeping in her stroller and tell him that him helping me out last year made him one of the many people who helped to bring my amazing baby girl home! He had a big smile in his face and congratulated us. There are SO many people involved in Hannah's adoption and it was neat to thank even one of them in person!

The other neat thing is that the papers he had waited for me to bring last year were for Hannah's citizenship and when she and I arrived home from our walk her Citizenship card was waiting for us in the mail! How cool is that?!! Unfortunately her first name was spelled incorrectly so I've had to mail everything back to be reissued but the gal handling it realized her error as soon as I emailed her and called by 9:15 the following morning apologizing and saying that the new card would be reissued as soon as the incorrect one was returned. The reason I called this post 'Mommy ~ Make Up Your Mind!' was because a couple of hours after we returned from our walk where Hannah had been dressed in tons 'o clothes, we tried on her bathing suit in preparation for Thursday's swimming lessons. She couldn't figure out what I was up to but she sure did look adorable!!