Another CCAA update...

...a little bit better than some people had anticipated for this batch of referrals. What will happen with the next batch? Will it be finished before Chinese New Year? A small batch? A mini batch? Only time will tell. I personally would like to see a miracle batch that would finish off most of October. Of course I know that will never happen (an attempt at reverse referral psychology for the CCAA). Yes, I am goinga little batty...enough said.

And now! An area rug!

There you have it, not even the end of January, still sort of on schedule, and I have selected an area rug for our daughter's room. It would have been nice if she were here to help with the decision but I guess she will just have to live with what Ipicked out for her. The area rug won't be here for a couple of weeks. I can't wait. I've attached a picture to give you an idea of what it will look like. I think it will be a nice compliment to the Maud Lewis and handmade quilt.

I thought that the best slight of hand tonight would have been losing the cash I spent on the tickets for this show. I was wrong! I loved it! Wow! Definitely worth the price of admission! I would totally go see David Copperfield perform again. Now if only he had picked me out of the audience and transported me to China instead of sending that other woman to Hawaii, I would have named my daughter David!!

More room updates...

...a paint color has been selected and applied!!

What's this? An update?

Okay, so now they are less than two months of log in dates away from our log in date. I want to get excited but it seems tooooo soon. I will try to refrain. Well, at least I can get some more work done tomorrow now that I know the CCAA website has been updated. Of course I could always look at families' referral pictures and rework my estimates for our actual referral.

Christmas Time!

You wouldn't think that Charlie would know it was Christmas or that he would get the concept of gifts, well, you would be wrong. Sooo very wrong. He is actually thinking of converting to take advantage of the eight days during Hannakuh! His gifts arrived by mail, airplane and direct knocks to the front door. I think one of his favorite presents was a special visit from our neighbour down the street, Isobel, who had to bring him his gift in person. Charlie also appreciated the slippers he received from Prairie Dogma (yeah, ok, we need a kid) and the cans of water packed tuna from East Coast Dogma (yes, other people now refer to them this way as well in case you are wondering.) Charlie likes the idea of presents so much that for the entire time from Christmas to New Year's Day, each time he entered the house he would 'check-out' the tree and see if anything new had materialized with his name on it. (Okay, I may be taking liberties there, I know he can't actually read.)

Slacker that I am...

...it has been so long since I have updated the blog!! With all the home renos, staff parties and the holidays (or as I like to call it, Christmas) I haven't been on the computer very much or even in my own house and when we were, we were working on the floors. I am happy to say that all projects for 2006 have Phase 1 completed. I am still working on the Gantt chart for '07. ha ha I have been watching the Rumor Queen website everyday anxiously awaiting the latest batch of referrals to see if I can put a better estimate as to when we will be going to China. I have a feeling that this is our year!! :) Alan picked up the paint for 'the kid's' room today. I guess I know how I am spending my weekend!! That's okay though, it was part of the plan. January - paint the kid's room.

Here are some pictures from the past few weeks that I haven't been blogging....I made a quilt for my mom and my MIL, installed some hardwood floors and managed to attend the wedding of our good friends- Pat and Carole! (Finalement mes amis!) And Alan was there for most of it, with the exception of the quilt. :P (He really should learn to blog himself!!)