bitter and sweet....

Well, here it is Friday night going into Saturday morning and STILL NO PHOTOS OF MARIO. Usually they come the day after he turns another month.... he turned 4 months on the 17th - it is the 20th!!! Patience is not my strong point... when I want something done, I want it done now, so adoption is really a true test of my character. People who went through this before me kept telling me it was not for the "faint of heart" but it is hard to understand until you are knee deep in it. I talked with the agency yesterday who reassured me that if something was wrong, the foster mother would have called them or the doctor would have called them. They have heard nothing. We are apparently still in PGN and still waiting for PA. Nothing changed for the better or worse. This has been the story of my life lately... good and bad...if I could just see his face, I think that I would feel more at ease... in this situation we LIVE for those photos.

I have been busy the past 2 weeks. I am always busy, we all are, but I have been unusually busy with a little extra stress mixed in. Not a good scenario for an "expectant mother." It has been a good a bad 2 weeks. There have been a few situations adoption and non-adoption related that has made me question my faith in people. There are just many things in life that I personally cannot control, but anyone who knows me even a little knows that control is something that I need :-) Jeff has not been around much trying to juggle the 2 jobs and take a bit of vacation. It is strange to be super busy then try to hurry up and relax! I have hardly been able to spend time with my mother, who I usually see everyday. I swear that I have seen her about 30 minutes in 3 weeks. I am so close with her which has made a few situations in the past few weeks difficult to deal with. I just need things to slow down in my life, but speed up in the adoption. It is so odd to have such great things happening and such rotten things happen at once. I guess in life you have to take the bitter with the sweet.....I could go for more sweet at the moment.

I am so happy for those "blogging buddies" who have received good news lately with their cases. Reading their good news makes some of this "stress" seem so petty. It makes my day to see someone's case move forward. I hope for such good fortune in our case soon!

On a good note, we took another little trip. About 2 hours from here is a great indoor water park. Alli LOVES to swim and do the slides, so we took off! It was a great trip up, singing in the car and chatting away. The hotel is connected to the water park and was very nice. I love hotels, ever since I was a kid. I swear THAT is a true vacation for me. I love going and getting the ice, the little soaps, etc. Weird, I know. As an adult, I like the thought of NOT picking up or doing the laundry! Anyway, the water slides were AWESOME. I am not a rider, but Alli begged me to go with her. One slide, and I was addicted. I screamed my head off completely embarrassing her. She then decided that Jeff and I should ride together from that point on... lol! That is a sight, Jeff in the back and chubby me getting into the raft. I was laughing so hard at my lack of coordination. It was really a blast. It will be even better when I can have Mo in the lazy river and in the kiddie area next year... it feels so far away... here are some pics of our trip!

The slides go from inside through the wall outside the building, then back in! Cool artwork on the wall!
This is Jeff coming off of he "body" slide. I went ONCE on this, and said "never again." It was like a minute and a half full on panic attack! It was Jeff's favorite!

It was Christmas in July. Seeing Santa was the weirdest thing at an 85 degree and VERY humid indoor water park!

I made Al pose for this one... she is such a cutie!

fake palm tree - real beauty

There were these painted fish all around. This was Alli's favorite.

I went on this one... it was one of my favorites. It takes you down a big hill and shoots you out into this toilet bowl. Here are Alli and Jeff on it... I took it from the bridge above.

There was another toilet bowl one that I did not go on. It was raft-free and 40 miles per hour. Jeff looked like he was in a giant dry heave coming out of the thing. Alli was telling us about it in this pic.

In the pool

Alli and I

This was a fun place - we recommend it!

I will post photos when I get it. The next post will be more pics of the remainder of our trip. It is all I have to talk about currently.