Arthur: Binky Gets a Baby Sister

Tomorrow (Friday's) Arthur show airs a new 2 part series, 'Binky Gets a Baby Sister.' Binky's family adopts a baby sister from China.

I haven't seen this yet but have read good reviews about it in a couple of places. It's said to be very accurate and the writers did their homework before writing.

It will be one I'll be recording and putting aside for safe keeping.

The Very Best Cure!

Do you remember yesterday when I mentioned having a tough time with the small LID referral batch? I shed a few tears and my friend Deb was there to catch them.

Fast forward to last night when I was at the grocery store picking up a couple of things. My cell phone rang and Deb asked, 'Where are you and when will you be home?' I laughed and said, 'I'm at the grocery store picking up a couple of treats to send to some of the gals from church who have just moved away to college and are missing home and, I'll be home in a few minutes.' Her response, 'Great. See you in a few minutes' and that's it...she was gone! I laughed, finished packing my groceries and headed home realizing that my house was in a complete shambles because of the painting. Oh well, she'd understand!

Anyway, look what my amazing friend made as a 'pick me up!' Isn't it great?!!!

My wonderful friend who had a ton to do the day after returning from a summer at the cottage, took time to make this beautiful bouquet of love. Ok, ok, it's a bouquet of chocolate but honestly, in my love languages chocolate is right up there!

THANKS DEB!!! I love you and am so happy you're home so that we can share our morning chats again!

I Tried...I Really Did!

But, I just couldn't resist playing with the numbers. Hey, the fact that I survived 21 whole hours before doing this has to say something. (Yes, it says my Internet access at home is still not working so I didn't have a way to get to the numbers I needed! :o)

After a few tears this morning (thanks for the shoulder Deb) I'm back on track and feeling better today about the 4 day Referral Batch. One of my favourite adoption sites to help me through the wait is the Rumor Queen (RQ). It's not everyone's cup of tea but I appreciate what she has to offer.

This morning I went to the most recent RQ LID poll. What this poll showed was that in the August Referral Batch of November 15-21,2005 - 120 people who had voted in the poll were included in those referrals. In September's Referral Batch of November 22-25, 2005 - 134 people who had voted in the poll were included in those referrals. Based on the poll, there were just a lot of files logged in those 4 days so they were not able to cover as many calendar days but still covered as many files.

This made me feel better for 2 reasons:
a) The batches seem to be fairly consistent with the number of referrals included
b) If this number stays the same in this next batch, based on the above poll I am very confident that the next batch will take us into December 2005. Merry Christmas!

Sorry folks who had LID's in November 2005 but this gal will be very, very happy to see the tail end of November and happily move forward into the month of December!

Even though I do these calculations, I'm still not brave enough to recalculate my anticipated referral month. Now that would just be depressing and I know my limits! Not-even-going-to-try...at least for this moment!

September Referrals *sigh*

I'm happy for those who will be receiving their referrals but must admit this is another tough month to accept. 4 days....f-o-u-r days! Ugh!! 5 months of referrals to get through the 25th of November. We've been told for a long time that November had a large number of files logged but the fact that it will take 6 (and let's face it, maybe even 7 months to get through the files) is really hard to accept.

I just can't do the math with those kind of numbers so am choosing to keep my head in the sand and still hope and pray for a referral in 2008!


(((hugs))) to all. We're going to get there. We don't have a clue when that will be but we do know that it will and that's what matters! Once again, trusting God for His perfect timing and praying daily for Hannah...and for you too my fellow waiting friends.

A Quiet Weekend...

I'm enjoying a quiet labour day weekend although unfortunately it's a little quieter than I would prefer. Once again my internet has gone on the fritz so I'm blogging and reading emails from a friend's place. (Thanks Sharon!!) As much as I loathe the thought of all the challenges the come with changing internet providers, I don't think I have an option but to do so. When I do I'll be sure to let you know my updated email address. Until then, I'll keep working with my current provider to get my service working properly. It was supposed to take 'up to 66 hours' and that was more than 72 hours ago so I'm thinking they're not going to make it.

The 'no computer' time is good for one thing. It's giving me lots of time to finish up a long overdue project. My goal is to have the painting of my downstairs finished by the end of this week and even better - tomorrow. (Yes, yes, this is the project that I started on the March Break! Uh oh!) So far the old wallpaper is down, the taping is done and most of the priming. Tomorrow I'll finish up the priming and put at least the first coat on the walls. The first coat always takes longer as it involves all the cutting in from the edges. Painting is one of the thinks I least enjoy doing but I do like the end product.

Hope everyone's having a great Labour Day weekend! Here's to a week with referral announcements and hoping they reach beyond November 24th. Only 3 days of referrals (which is the current rumour) would just be really tough to take. Until it's official, I'm holding out hope that it will be later than the 24th.