House Chaos:
Our house is about 90% finished. We still have boxes to unpack, pictures to hang and odds and ends to tidy up. My favorite rooms in the house are the kitchen and family room. Ironically, those are the rooms where I spend most of our time. Let me show you some before and after pictures of three rooms.
Family Room
This room is my absolute favorite. We bought a new sectional that is pretty much my favorite piece of furniture beside my bed. I love this room so much. It makes me almost forgot the insanely bad smell. Thankful the smell is gone and the prettiness remains.
Master Bathroom
This room is small and we are still working out the kinks but it is completely functional and doesn't have that weird exterior entrance so win/win.
Master Bedroom
I finally put up all of the boxes and our room feels much bigger. I have a confession. I had to take pictures of our home for our dossier and home study. These are the only 3 rooms that looked good enough to photograph. Maybe I will get the other rooms in shape sometime in the next three months.
Seth Chaos:
Many of you have been asking about Seth lately and I really appreciate that. Seth has had a really rough six months. Last Friday was procedure number 4 and it hasn't really gotten any easier on him. We really didn't know what would happen when they went in to surgery. Seth has been very sensitive to light for a couple of months. The cause of this sensitivity was caused by the glaucoma tube being too long. It was rubbing a hazy spot onto his cornea. They removed the tube, trimmed it and put it back into place. The good news is his pressure was still good so that meant the tube was still doing its job. Hopefully we will finally get to put the contact in this week and begin the patching within the next two weeks. I really feel like the hard stuff is behind us. The path forward will definitely have bumps but Seth will learn to get used to the new normal. I'm not sure if this is the last surgery but I suspect its probably not. His eye will continue to change and grow and the tube is a fixed objected that will have to be adjusted.
He has been through a lot but he is doing ok.
Lila Chaos:
This is some good, happy chaos. We had our first home study visit and it went great. We have our second and third in the next couple weeks. We have to have a total of four so it is really starting to roll. The home study is the biggest piece to our dossier. The good thing about the home study is that a lot of our paperwork overlaps with the dossier. Jon and I are waiting on Pre-approval from China. Pre-approval is basically China telling us they will put her file on hold for a certain period time for us to finish our dossier. We have two hold ups with that process right now. Our agency doesn't have her 'official file' yet they only have her pre-file. My agency is only one who will have access to her file so we really don't have a fear of losing her. The second snag is right now China is celebrating Chinese New Year. Their celebrations are not a one or two day event. They shut the country down for a full week. So PA will not come until after CNY is over. It really is a big deal. It will be fun to celebrate next year with her. We are still selling our puzzle pieces and you guys have bought 183 and counting. That is mind blowing. If you still would like to purchase pieces there is a donate button at the top right of this page. I think about her constantly. We talk about her constantly. The boys have started praying for her at meals (be still my heart) and Zoey wants to buy her all the cute clothes. We are beyond excited to have her in our family.
That's all the chaos at this moment. Love to you all.
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