Out of the tunnel, seeing the light!

I finished our 12 month post placement report for the agency this week and, if I’m not mistaken, that is the last thing we have to complete and our adoption paperwork is DONE! Woo-hoo! Not that these post-placement reports were any big whoop, they are pretty easy to complete, except that I feel the questions they ask are a little vague and not really age appropriate (there’s one that asks something about what extracurricular activites your child is involved in, awards received, etc…umm yeah, he’s only 1 so we haven’t quite enrolled in tee-ball or spelling bee’s yet!). The hardest part was trying to pick only 8 pictures that reflect the past year with our son. Yeah, pick 8 pictures out of the 3,562 or however many I took this past year! (I go a little nutso with the digital camera, what did I ever do when I actually had film to develop?!?) But I found some that I thought were the best and off they go! I also printed out some more to send to Cameron’s foster Mom, I haven’t sent any since our last post-placement report and I’ve been feeling bad about this. I hope she eventually does receive them (I trust that my agency will forward them but once they get to Guatemala I just never know…), she won’t believe how much our little frijolito has grown! Anyway, I just had to share that one more milestone has come and almost gone!

On a different note, a rummage sale update! I finally compiled all of Cameron’s outgrown clothes and shoes and I had 3 huge totes full plus a big diaper box full of stuff! Yikes, where did all this crap come from! I did get a lot of stuff from work and a lot of it was gifts from all the various showers last summer, but I also freely admit that I went a little crazy buying clothes for him at the end of the summer clearance and over the winter. A lot of it he never even wore, how sad is that? So one of my best friends who has an 8 month old little guy came over last night and got to shop the early bird sale! She went home with a HUGE pile of clothes and a big smile on her face which made me feel much better about getting rid of it all. Now I can relive the cuteness when her little guy wears them and my friend, who is a stay-at-home-mom, saved a boatload of money on clothes for the year. It’s a win-win situation! Now if I can just get through 2 days of random strangers digging through my baby’s stuff…ack! I’ll just keep thinking “more money to buy new stuff…more money to buy new stuff…more money to buy new stuff…” :)