The Overflow

Monday, February 2, 2009

Newsworthy

Gotta like the small community newspaper on a slow day. They found my children newsworthy.

Saturday, December 20, 2008

This is the first year that I've dared to dream of a white Christmas. We've had unusually early snow. Here are the kids making molasses candy in the snow a la Little House on the Prairie. The wet weather will continue and I just saw that we might get snow the day after Christmas. I had plenty of white Christmases growing up (15 minutes further up in the mountains) but a white Christmas here would be a rare treat indeed!

Readoption Complete!!

In California we have to go through a "readoption" process if both parents don't see an internationally adopted child before he is brought home. On Thursday we completed this process. Yes we were real slackers in getting this done. It could have been done a year ago and I'll admit that we were motivated by the accountant to have this completed in 2008. Still here we are celebrating the completed adoption process!

These pictures uploaded in reverse order. Above I had them pose on the way out for a post-placement report picture. The reasons for the smiles are the policemen and metal detectors behind me.

Here we are with Judge Boscoe. He said this was the highlight of his day.

Waiting our turn. We had great talks about all that we were seeing in the waiting area- frustrated people storming out of the door, the policeman's gun, the camera surveying the waiting area. The children were good waiters.

Now we await their U.S birth certificates with their new last name and new birth date. It will only take Sacramento 9-12 MONTHS to get it to us. Seriously. So in the mean time we'll be getting them passports for ID. Just when we thought the paperwork and errands were behind us!

A happy day.