Blushing bride? Who me?... Not quite.

We've been married now for 3 months, we have 3 boys and our beloved dog, Moka Java, and we are both working full time. To add to this equation, we are on the road to adopt our daughter in China.

We are done the paperchase, as it were, and we are waiting for the homestudy report to be approved from the Centre de jeunesse. We started this official phase of our journey to our daughter on April 14th, 2006, Good Friday, when I dropped of our application to Formons une Famille inc, in Montreal. Its taken this long to get all our paperwork together, including getting married and getting the marriage certificate certified by the High Commissioner of the Eastern Caribbean nations, and ending with our dreaded Homestudy... which in the end wasn't so bad, as our resource person told us it would be. Now once we get the homestudy in our hands, and we get it off to our agency, we wait about 3 weeks for it to be authenticated and then translated, and then its off to China. A month later or so, its our LID (log in date) and then the official wait starts. As of today, its 14 months before we get our referral for our little girl but predictions are that it will get longer.

I am about to start a new job, as Senior Manager of Satellite Communications in the Strategic Planning Group. YUPPIE!!!! I will have worked in every CSA thrusts then - Earth Observation, Space Science and Exploration, and finally Satellite Communications. Hang on for the ride!

The boys are growing up too fast, and we can barely keep up with everything they are going through. Tristan is at school and loving it, Zach is turning into the big man on campus at daycare, and Jacob has learned how to say "NO!".

Greg and I have been able to clean out the garage this weekend, and surprise, surprise, the truck fits inside. Should have gotten a before and after picture... shoot, next time. This should be good for this winter then - no scrapping the ice of that windshield early in the morning!