More on International Adoption

Well, I recently heard about a website about adoption in China. http://research-china.blogspot.com/ This site talks more about the process and some of the problems with adoption from there (i.e. rural families having healthy children and then selling them in the "black market" because they can make more in a year with a child than with raising a pig, for example). This is the kind of thing that I think is discouraging Zac from wanting to adopt Internationally. So, this guy encourages American families to adopt Special Needs children and make more healthy children available domestically (in China and other countries). Well, to be honest, I've thought about adopting a SN child from Asia. This other site kind of reinforces the need to adopt SN children. I, for one, am open to that idea. As I've said in previously blogs, there are certain special needs that I am open to (skin problems, deafness, cleft lip/pallat, limb deformities... things like that). Not to mention, the wait for a SN child is much shorter than the wait for a healthy child. Well, that's something to think about and certainly an argument I could make to Zac FOR International Adoption.

Adoption Videos

Snow Day

It's a snow day. This is NOT a good thing. About 20 minutes after I called into work, my "acting" boss (my main boss is on vacation), called me and asked if there was any way that I could make it into work. I asked him where the other tellers are (they both live in Breckenridge and can walk to work if necessary) and one of them has pneumonia and the other one is down in Denver. He probably got stuck down there because I-70 is probably closed. Not good. Cole is stuck, being the only person on the teller line on a Monday (which is usually a pretty busy day). After I got stuck trying to drive down my road, I decided to give up and wait for the plow truck. I didn't care to get stuck again. I HOPE that they come by today. Our road is a county road and it should be plowed regularly but Park County is essentially being lazy (supposedly due to budget cuts) and not necessarily plowing our road when it needs to be done. They have plowed it the last few years and at the beginning of this year when it got really bad, we called the county roads and bridges and they said our road wasn't on their list of roads to plow. Interesting, since it has been plowed every year prior. Fortunately, they have been out a few times this season to plow the road but it's really a hit and miss situation. Sometimes they plow and sometimes they don't. I sure hope that they come and plow today. It would certainly be good if I could at least get into work at some point today to help Cole out. I just don't want to chance it until the road is plowed. I'm sure that Hwy 9 is perfectly fine, it's just a matter of getting down there. It's about 1600 vertical feet below us.

Chewy and Target Hanging Out

I love this picture of Chewy and Target on the bed. They don't climb up on the bed much... they prefer the cool, hard floor. They are so sweet. On this night I was cold so I put the dogs on the bed to help warm me up. :-) It worked pretty well.

Puppy Pages

I just thought I'd add some pictures of my scrapbook pages. These are the pages I did about my dogs and how we got them. Enjoy.

Bring Me Hope

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC2rmCRQRKQ

I had to add this link. This is a video about the millions of children in China that are waiting for homes. It's very touching.

Scrapbook Dreamin'

This is my dream scrapbooking station. I love to scrapbook and I just have a drafting desk and misc. storage. This set-up is nice because there's great storage for everything and the add-ons you can get are great. It's made by Scrap-N-Cube. Right now I don't really have the space for this storage set-up (or the $2500 for it) but maybe some day. :-) I don't have a pluthera of supplies but I am constantly adding to what I have and I have some neat stuff. I'd love to have more time to scrapbook but right now that's kind of hard (I work 7 days a week). I have to try to fit it in where ever I can. I think it's a great, creative way to preserve memories and I enjoy going back through my albums. I also have an ongoing project for genealogy scrapbooks that I am working on. I'm fortunate to have several old pictures from my grandparents and lots of research from my grandma's brother. He was able to trace some of our genealogy back to the 1500's, which is pretty cool. I look forward to having kids so I can put together scrapbooks for them too.

Weather Woes

Well, we're having a lot of bad weather here in Colorado right now. Actually, today it's clear and sunny but yesterday it was terrible. We got tons of snow and wind and now the road to my house is wind-packed with at least 3 feet of snow. My boyfriend drove the Pathfinder over the road to try to clear a trail. I tried to drive down the path he made but got stuck since there wasn't enough clearance under my Subaru. It's got pretty high clearance but it wasn't high enough. So, now I have to wait until my boyfriend's boss can get to our house with his plow truck and clear a route to get down the road. Needless to say, I'm already late to work and, if I'm lucky, I'll be able to get in for at least half the day. Ahh, the trials of living at 11,600 vertical feet in Colorado.