Design A-Peele

I have found that when one HUGE thing is going on in my life, it makes it tough to blog (much less talk) about anything else.  So I'll give you a quick update on our adoption status, then talk about some fun decorating projects that I look forward to working on. 

MR.P and I had a goal to finish all our initial home study paper work by Sunday night (the 16th) then to send it all in on Monday morning.  Well we reached that goal!

Here is MR.P working on our cultural worksheet.

Tortilla chips - check!  Starbucks - check! We ran to starbucks to get a fun drink in order to get excited about finishing our paper work.  Sadly, starbucks totally messed up.  We got our drinks to go (bc the starbucks by our house closes so dang early).  We waited until we got home to take a sip.  Our drinks tasted like water :(  Our fav drink of all time - Chai tea latte with vanilla.  It was such a bummer.  But MR.P had such a great attitude and worked through some of the tough questions with me. 

Monday morning I sent everything off to our home study agency!  I prayed over the paper work that it would get to the agency in a timely manner and that the Lord would direct to us our baby.  It's starting to really feel real now that we are getting things accomplished and checked off our list :) 

UPDATE:  Just got an email from the home study agency.  They received our paper work today and will be assigning us a social worker today.  We should hear from them in the next few days!

Now, for some decorative projects I'd love to complete.  I found this awesome chair on craigslist.

I sent an offer in today.  Hoping I hear back soon.  I'd love to paint it black or white and put it in our office.  We really need a good chair in there.  The leather one is yuck! 

I'm also looking for a precious little white chandalier for the baby room.  I know, I am just starting the hunt.  Not fully decorating the room (although, it's totally done in my head!)

Pottery Barn Kids has one but it's $169.   

I'd also LOVE to paint our dresser in our room.  It just stares at me everyday asking to be painted.  It's just quite heavy and I need the hubs to help me.  Then it would be in our garage for a few weeks while I painted it every night. 

I'm also looking to find a desk for our office.  We are using my sister's desk right now, but it's dark wood.  I want black...at least I think.

I think it can be overwhelming to think of all the projects I would like to get done.  So I am going to just keep putting these off for right now!  With our adoption paper work and such it's too much to handle :)