last weekend at home without a kiddo

This was the last weekend we'll ever spend alone together at home without a kiddo for a long, long, long time. Woah! Some friends with kids suggested that we make whoopie in the kitchen and live it up. Uh... no whoopie in the kitchen. Sorry to disappoint. I think we did over 10 loads of laundry, washing everything that wasn't nailed down. Fridge cleaned out, floors vacuumed and mopped, bathrooms cleaned, humidifier running. My mom came over and helped on Sunday. She says that we passed Nana's inspection regarding our child safety except for some metal things and dragon toothpicks left over from Chinese new year that are on the bottom shelf in the kitchen bookcase. As long as Hannah doesn't like to eat large amounts of Sedona's dog food, we're good. I'm not sure how we could position the dog food where the 12 pound dog could get to it and the 15 pound baby could not. Oh well. What kid doesn't try eating the dog/cat food?

Here's a few photos of the disaster area that was the living room during all of the laundry sorting... and then the happiness in the dishwasher when we washed Hannah's baby spoons, plates, and sippy cups for the first time.

Here's Kevin's bag... all packed, zipped up, and ready to go.



Here's my bag: donations, gifts, travel books, Wendy's plastic utensils, and no clothes! I'm still deciding what to bring and how much. I'm thinking of bringing clothes for 5 days and having laundry done for us twice at the hotel in Taipei. I know it won't be cheap, but I want to leave room for other things in my bag. I'm bringing lots of underwear. I don't like the idea of strangers washing my underwear.




And then there's Hannah Claire's bag. I think I've been packing it for a month. Naturally, everything is all out Hannah.



Sedona thinks she needs a bag too. She says to throw in some treats and she's good to go.

I'm really pumped because another adopting family contacted us and we hope to have dinner together in Taipei. Woohoo! I'm thinkin' dumplings for our first night out.

Hope this work week goes by quickly. We leave for the airport at 8:30am this Saturday.