I want her home...

I want our daughter home now. The closer it gets the more I let myself think about her. The more I love her and miss her. That is all.

The Bookworm

We received a giftcard to The Bookworm at one of our baby showers and went to use it last night. We loved this bookstore! You forget how charming an independently owned bookstore is. The whole basement is a children's floor with reading nooks and all kinds of different books you couldn't find at Barnes & Noble. Adam has been obsessed with getting lunch at a taco truck that parks near UNMC, so we couldn't resist this book.

We also got a Children of The World matching game. You match the boy and girl from different countries. Each match has the way to say hello in that country's language. Probably a little above her age right now but she will have fun just tossing them around I'm sure!

Highly recommend you stop by there, they are in Countryside Village across from Westside High School. We received great customer service and when they asked what we were buying the books for and found out we were adopting from China, they let us know about a new set of blocks with Chinese characters they had just ordered that day. We will be going back in a couple weeks for them!

Baby Shower!

We had our first baby shower/ welcome shower on Sunday! It was a fantastic day and a few of my fellow workmates did an amazing job putting it together. It was great to finally start celebrating Naomi's arrival with some of Adam and I's friends. It was a "family" shower which was fun, a big party. I discovered I go through a lot of expressions when opening gifts, it really reveals my unphotogenic nature. She and us are truly blessed to have such amazing support. Work has been a place for both of us that has been such a huge support, I would have missed a lot more days over the past few years if I didn't work with some great people! Warning: most of these photos are of us opening gifts since I figured most guests didn't want random photos of them at a party posted!

NPR changed my life

I loved to read as a kid. Book-it was a favorite part of my summer. I mean you got free Personal Pan pizzas for reading.  I loved to write as a kid. I'm not one to brag......but I did win our Young Author's competition every other year in elementary school. I once wrote a story about a boy being sucked into a video game and living with the characters. Yeah, awesome, you don't need to tell me. I had a column in the school newspaper and thought I wanted to be a journalist when I grew up for awhile. There are definitely days I still do. I miss creative writing, I always found writing to be one of the easiest ways to express myself and let people know who I am.

I didn't know about NPR back then but if I would have I'm not sure I would be a pharmacist today. It would have been my ideal job. I love being a pharmacist and my career but I hate to think I would do one thing my whole life, I don't plan to. NPR did not alter my course back then to a career in journalism, but it did help alter an even bigger event in my life last year.

I listen to Fresh Air every once in awhile and I happened to listen to a podcast last August of Scott Simon talking to Teri Gross about his new book. That sentence should blow your mind as an NPR nerd. Anyway, the book was titled, "Baby We Were Meant for Each Other." It is sort of an "ode" to adoption. He is the father to two girls from China whom him and his wife adopted.

We were at that time in the thick of our fertility treatments and