Waiting Room

I'm back finally!  It's been forever since I've posted anything, so we'll see if I can catch up with some things in the next few days.  First off, I thought I'd share this song called "Waiting Room" by Jonny Diaz.  The video below shows the lyrics as the song plays.  We found this song last month just days after we decided it was best not to accept our first match off of the waiting children list.  A new list came out last week....no match for us this month.  So we are, as the song says, still in the waiting room.  If obsessing could make it happen faster, we'd have had our little girl years ago.  ;)

"though I'm convinced that a yes would be best, this time you're telling me no...."

Welcome to Toadtown!!

The girls and I got this great idea recently to put a Frog Village in our landscaping.  What started as a simple idea for a few flower pots turned sideways and a couple of froggy decorations quickly turned into an entire town of froggy fun! 


From the pots turned sideways (Toad Cottages of course) to the swimming pool in the middle, to the bridge that takes you over to "Camp-phibian" for all those "Hoppy Campers" - it's a complete Toad Town!  We just keep getting more and more ideas of things we could add.  Unfortunately by the time we actually got the thing set up, fall is upon us!  So it won't be long and we'll have to bring it in for the winter and then pull it back out come spring.  But we certainly tested our amphibious creativity coming up with funny additions to our town! 

And yes, that is a clothesline you see in the back right! That is of course the froggy laundry at Camp-phibian.  Grace is responsible for that.  It's complete with clothing that she cut out of fabric scraps!  (Humorous also that the clothing was made stiff when I sprayed it with the clear coat laquer!)

As our froggy flag says - Peace Out Frogs....