Staying busy

We're still waiting. Yesterday was the 20th, and when I asked our agency about the LOI, they said our dossier was still at the Ministry of Education.

In the meantime, we're staying busy. We're changing the exterior of our house, something we should have done when we bought it. It's that fake stucco, "dryvit," and we've had repairs done twice. Now we're just ripping it off. What a crazy way to build the exterior of a house--particle board, with styrofoam glued onto it, and a thin layers of cement-like stuff. We're replacing it with stone on the front and cedar on the other three sides. God-made materials are always superior, aren't they?

What else? Well, Sophie was stopped by a woman at Potbelly's Sandwiches on Saturday and asked if she would do some modeling at her studio. We're going there this afternoon. She's pretty excited.

All this extra time has allowed us to over-prepare. Kaz uses "c" type electrical plugs, so we got adaptors and transformers galore for all our electronics that are must-haves--2 laptops, nintendo ds, blackberry (I now call it Miss Blackberry, the other woman in Justin's life. She's so needy, always whining at him, and hanging on his hip, day and night. ). We also have a Russian/English phrasebook, the best one according to Amazon reviewers; and a "Russian phrasebook for English Speaking Adoptive Parents." That thing is great. Katrina and I were practicing the other night and discovered that "brother" is "brat" in Russian, ha, ha!

Well, I could rattle on forever. Waiting does that to me. We'll let you know as soon as something happens!