51 pages and a final decision

I wrote this weekend. Boy did I write! I finished the first 51 pages of the book we are currently calling "The Road to Sam" of course, that working title may change, especially if we find out Sam is a Sophia! It felt great to get so much down. It's still pretty rough and some sections will undoubtedly get edited to death, but I'm very happy at this point. It's some original stuff, some blog posts, and some letters to Sam from my journal. I feel like I have the bulk of the "back story" done at this point which is good, because I'm always afraid I'll forget something and now it's all down in one place.
At this point it's a book for our family, a chronicle of the journey and Sam's adoption narative. It may, in the future, be something I shop around for "real" publishing. don't know yet. I'll probably end up sending copies to some of you to read and give me the honest trust on whether or not it's funny enough, sad enough, ponient enough, inspiring enough to actually sell copies.

Yesterday, after an hour long talk with my sister, Amanda (who is really my voice of reasoning with parental issues) and a long talk with Gregg, we made the final decision...we are leaving our current adoption agency. I am researching other agencies and have received a lot of good feedback from all of you. We are waivering between Adoption Avenues and Better Futures right now. I need some more information, and have a phone call scheduled with the director of AA tomorrow. We'll see where that takes us. In the meantime, I feel like a huge weight has been lifted and feel really great about our decision to move on. This decision will not really effect anything...oh, other than the fact we'll be united with our child a lot sooner. That could never be a bad thing!

I need to get some office work done, and then think about a 'Thankful' post for today. I fell off the 'Thankful post wagon' this weekend and did to get back on.

The Book & Misc

Warning: boring post to follow.
I got some great work on the book done today. I really like the way it's turning out. Desktop publishing is pretty terrific if you ask me.
Gregg and I went to the mall because he needed a couple watches repaired and wanted to go to Penneys (his favorite store) for socks. Packs of Gold Toes were buy 1 get 1 free and Gregg swears by this brand. I had been looking for some sweaters to wear to work and found some really nice ones at 40% off. Pretty nice!
We went to the jewelry store for Gregg's watches -- one was running slow and the other needed a new band. While we were there, I had my engagement and wedding rings cleaned. Both have "chips" or "diamond dust." I didn't want "flashy" rings/settings, and love the antique-y way they look.
So -- when they gave me my wedding band back, I saw 2 holes at the top. Gregg said, "are you sure? how often do you look closely at that ring?" Umm, try every single day. Like most girls, I take my rings off to put on lotion, to do makeup, and my hair. I told the guy this, and he handed it back to the jeweler, who was cleaning the ultrasound machine and noted that 2 of my "chips" were there. Oooooppps! So we left the store, got some coffee, and let them re-set my ring.
Needless to say, my prongs were a bit loose, and they re-set those two stones and everything is fine. They look better than new because they are so freakin' clean and shiny.
So that's it. I wanted to get a post in today, and I'm just a few seconds before midnight. Sorry for the really boring words.

Writing my book

So I've started it -- my book about Sam, or rather, how we found Sam. I was going to originally just edit my blog into a book. But I write a lot of crap here, and found the thought of editing everything quite daunting. So I used the Blurb free software (see link in prior post) and started a book from scratch. I keep my blog screen up as well, and can cut and paste the good portions I want. But I can write the back-story too. The how-Gregg-and-Meg-got-together story that wouldn't be all that entertaining to my blog readers. I have a lot of control and have written 6 pages in the past 12 hours. I must admit, this could become addictive. I'm going to have it be on-going, and probably won't finish/print it until we have Sam home next fall. That would equal about 9-10 months of writing, which seems right. I don't know if this book is just for us, or for Sam as the story of his adoption, or is the book I want to have published someday. Maybe. Maybe not. In the meantime I am enjoying this and that's really what it's all about, right?