Tuesday October 12, 2010

Today I got an e-mail notice that we will be getting a Fed Ex package/envelope by Monday with paperwork that help get us ready for travelling to China.  Thank goodness we don't have to be present to sign for it so that is a huge relief for me as I don't want to have to take time off of work to wait around for it.  Not that would be a bad thing, but I'll be taking 3 months of maternity leave and I have jury duty for the entire month of December.  So I feel like I'm going to be gone too much.  Now I know that is just guilt talking and my bosses (all 3 of them) are excited and supportive of my maternity leave, not so thrilled with jury duty though.  To be honest, I'm not that excited about jury duty either.  I think the jury duty/court trials is so fascinating that the other 2 times I've been summoned I prayed I'd get picked.  But I work for an accounting office.  I basically run the front office and I will be gone during the most important time of the year - tax season.  So that means I have to train a temp to do my job and that will be hard to do if I'm gone on jury duty.  I know that I can't help it and that it's my duty and that's fine.  But the timing is just bad, that's all.  But I'd rather have jury duty in December than when I'm on maternity leave!  So I'm counting my Blessings!

Well Sam and I have registered for the Baptism class that is in 2 weeks (10/24).  Thankfully we can take the class now and when we get home from China we can schedule her baptism.  We're hoping that we'll travel by December 28, 2010 and be home by mid January.  Our plan is to have my in-laws (who I adore and am very close to) here for her 1st birthday party (2/5), her baptism and my baby shower.  I realize that is a lot in a short time, but they don't live here and I want them to be part of those very important moments.  It is one thing that Sam and I won't concede on.  We just want to make sure that our daughter KNOWS her Grandma and Grandpa Wellman regardless of the fact that they live in Ohio.  With that said, we've made changes to our phone/cable/internet package to include unlimited free long distance calling.  Now if I can just get my mom-in-law back onto the computer!!  LOL

Well I'm happy to say that I have finally gotten all of my baby clothes washed, folded and sorted.  I've gotten the 24 months/2Ts and older stored in totes.  The 9-18 months are still sitting in the laundry basket.  I need to just put them in her dresser.  I'm still trying to figure out how I want to do that.  Do I want to put all it all away like I have our clothes?  Shirts in one drawer, pants in one drawer, shorts in one drawer, etc.  Or do I want to put matching outfits together and then by seasons?  I know that I am making this harder than it needs to be.  That is what I do, which I am working on.  That is probably why I haven't put all the clothes away yet.  Good thing I still have some time to get that done!!

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