One month until we hold Ren!

In exactly one month, we will receive our little boy. I know this month will fly by and for that, I am grateful. As much as I have enjoyed being a family of three, I know we are meant to be a family of four. Soon, we will be complete.

A friend of ours ordered some beautiful magnets from a seller on Etsy before Christmas and I decided to get Paul some stocking stuffers from the same seller. These paperweights showing our children's birth places were my favourite purchase. I loved them so much I recently ordered a set for myself!

Here is the paperweight of Ren's birth province and city (Zhuhai in Guangdong):

And here is Claire's, of Xinyu in Jiangxi: Gail (the seller) sells many other beautiful items, including pendants featuring the word 'mother', 'father', 'love' etc. in various languages such as Chinese, Amharic, Korean, and Russian. It's a great place for adoption gifts. Here's her address in case you want to do a bit of shopping! http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6124520

At this very moment, Claire is napping and I'm washing Ren's clothes. I never thought I'd enjoy doing laundry this much! Actually, I really enjoyed getting Claire's clothing organized too before we received her. It's so much fun to visualize our little ones in clothes we've specially picked for them. I'm trying not to overdo it in the clothes department this time, though. I really went nuts for Claire and now I'm faced with a ton of clothes I'm too attached to to sell or even pass on to others yet. Sheesh. I'm sure Paul is not thrilled with how our storage space is expanding with all the too-small clothes and how it's encroaching on his wine-making area! Oh, the dryer just beeped so I better go fold some clothes. Yay! (I really mean that!)