Month: December 2007

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This me, cluelessly spreadin’ the love

A blogging friend of mine, Mama 2Roo, wants to know where everyone is and is offering a prize if you tell her!

I personally, do not of the bloggy-nastieness of which she speaks (honest, I’m just on a Christmas break), but she’s asking for happy, non-adoption related posts. And she’s offering a prize if you do as she asks.

So here’s my happy post (aren’t most of my posts happy anyway?) :

Have you read Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert yet? I’ve gotten through the first of three parts–it’s lovely. I’m taking my time with it (I’ve read two books in between) because I don’t really want it to end. I can’t really even describe it–it’s one woman’s journey that starts because she’s ready for a change, and it falls into place that she can basically spend a year traveling–eating in Italy, praying in India and loving in Indonesia. It’s a stunning read, heartfelt, but not heavy (at least not yet).

Go read it already! You’ll be glad you did.

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Just Checking In..

This is the first time I’ve sat down and opened up this here blog since last Thursday. Betsy has been on hiatus since then too. I think I checked email twice on my dad’s laptop since it was already up and running, but other than that, I’ve been off line since the 20th. It’s been a fabulously exhausting, happy week. We packed up the car Friday night after work, and headed north to spend Christmas with family.

Let’s review:

We arrived to my parents’ candle lit home. There was a traffic accident that caused a power outage for three hours. While it got progressively chillier, it was rather magical. When else do you light every Christmas candle in the house at once??

Saturday night BgK and I drove about 90 minutes to see a college friend of mine, whom we hadn’t seen in over a year. She and her hubby moved into a beautiful house this year and host what is known as a legendary Christmas open house. It was so good to see them, and their friends (most of whom I’ve know since college as well). The icing on the cake? Someone brought her new baby–her perfectly healthy, 3 week old baby–who weighed 4lbs 12 oz. I have never held a baby that small. It was enchanting.

The next three days were filled with family visits, family dinners and family gift exchanges. Fancy dresses, yummy food, fun presents. And playing with assorted animated Christmas critters. For kicks, we gathered them, my grandma and MAM for a photo op.

Yesterday, we went into Chicago to see the sights.

Today we came home. Tomorrow, we shall rest.

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the expert opinion is in

Today, after 2 weeks of waiting, MAM went to see a pediatric dermatologist for the rash that just won’t quit. It’s much better than it was, but it’s still hanging on and new bumps pop up every now and then.

The Verdict? A bacterial infection. Apparently, sometimes infections present themselves as rashes. As a result, we now have a fourth cream to use on MAM to see if it clears it up. (if anyone needs any anti-fungal, scabies or hyrdrocortisone creams, let me know–we’ve got plenty)

We also got cream to use on her face and the strange redness that comes and goes.

And now that we’re “in”, it shouldn’t take 2 weeks to get an appointment, should anything else pop up.