Today our whole lives have changed

We have a son at last! His name is Pham Van Tinh, born August 13, 2006. I cant even describe how Im feeling right now. Its like everything looks different suddenly. To know that waiting on the other side of the world is a little baby. Waiting for us to come and bring him home. I love him already and I havent even seen his little face yet. This is what I have waited my whole life for. To be a mother. Little Tinh, I promise that I am going to try to be the best mother I can be for you.

Im shaking so bad that is hard to type! The agency called about an hour ago and since then I've been calling our friends and family spreading the good news around. One George gets home, we'll open the email together and see our childs face for the first time!!!!

This is the happiest day of my life. It will only be topped by having Tinh in our arms someday soon.

Seeing him for the first time
First off let me tell you just how in love I am with this little boy. I cant stop looking at his pic and thinking that hes waiting for his mom and dad. Waiting for US!

We sat down last night to open the email together and it was incredible just seeing this perfect little face! How sweet and so innocent. I had tears in my eyes, was shaking, and my heart was pounding.

This is what we have been waiting for for so many long years. All the pain. The tears and feelings of hopelessness. I've never felt so calm and at peace as I do now. All of a sudden the whole world looks different. It has a whole new meaning. Our lives have changed.

I spent a few hours yesterday calling family and friends, and sending emails spreading our happy news around. Didnt sleep much last night at all, but Tinh was the last thing I thought about before drifting off, and the first thing again this morning. For a minute I thought it might have been a dream. I had to get up and open the email again to see him. But yeah, its for real. We've found our son.

Making Room For Baby

Last week we started working on the babys nursery! We hadnt been able to start because George was waiting to get the attic finished off so he could move his office up there. Well, since panic mode began to set in since were officially waiting for a phone call now, George decided just to empty out the office, cram everything into another room for now, and start getting everything prepared.


The little rocking chair was Georges when he was little.



Mommys been having a really good time shopping!


What a week its been! So the drywall guy was here Mon-Wed and got the sheetrock finished. Last weekend I painted. Wait a minute. Lets just start from the beginning. It'll be more fun that way since we did have a few misadventures.

Last Friday night: Picked out a really cool blue paint and started to get everything laid out so I could start bright and early Saturday morning. Was so excited that I decided to get everything taped off too. Was taping the ceiling and lost my footing getting off the chair I was standing on, and fell hard on my ankle! Ankle was actually swelling before my eyes. OUCH!!! Called it a night.

Saturday morning: Ankle is nice and swollen and has turned a few different colors. No time to worry about that though. I have a nursery to paint!!! While I was rolling away, George was outside cutting the wainscoating and chairrail for the bottom half of the walls. Things were going great until, while George was putting up the wainscoat with his nailgun, and all of a sudden he drives one into the wall and we hear this hissing noise coming from inside. Oh boy...........this cant be good. So here we go. George pulls the wainscoat back off and cuts a small hole in my freshly painted blue wall. And there is the source of the noise. A pipe with a nice hole in it. So now he makes the hole even bigger to see the extent of the damage. Turns out luckily that is was just for the A/C and nothing really serious. Still in all, we had no A/C upstairs after that. Called the A/C repair man and left a message.


Everything is going to be perfect for his little boy.





What the *#($&% is that noise?


Sunday: Painted some more and got the blinds put up. Its really starting to look nice! So long as you look past the huge hole in the wall.

Monday-Wednesday: Hooray! At last the drywall guy came and got the attic all finished and ready for paint. The A/C guy came too and fixed the pipe. His input??? "Dont do that again." Drywall guy fixed the hole in the wall too so I could paint it. Again.

Thursday: Way too tired to do anything. Ankle still swollen too.

Friday: We both painted all day long. Me in the nursery working on the wainscoat, and George in the attic painting his new office.

It was a crazy, busy week! But both rooms are looking great! And I cant stop peeking in the nursery. Im so happy with the way its coming out. It looks like a little boys room. Today Im going to pick up my rocking chair so I can stain it this weekend.