Put a Bow on It 'Cause

it is done. All my Christmas shopping is complete!!! I'm off to the post office to mail packages.

Daisy Induction

Taking the Daisy pledge before the start of the ceremony.

Wearing her new tunic after induction.

Chloe was inducted into the Daisy's yesterday and she received her much anticipated Daisy tunic. She has already earned a badge for going to the Ho-Down kickoff but it hasn't arrived yet (much to her dismay). Her troop meets every other Tuesday and they wear khaki pants and a white shirt. Chloe loves to wear this outfit as she is convinced it looks just like what Daddy wears to work.

Celebrate Adoption

On Friday, our local library had a celebrate adoption event. The librarian has an adoptive daughter from China and she started the program by talking about international adoption, the process and showed slides of her adoption trip to China. She then opened the mic to anyone who wanted to share their adoption story. Chloe went up and shared that she was adopted from China and has a little brother named Oliver coming from Ethiopia. She then signed off saying, "Later!". It was sweet and cute.

Other girls from her Chinese dance class were in attendance and they decided to do an impromptu fan dance for the audience. They are performing the fan dance in NYC in June. I hope the fans make it that long!

While the Cats Away...

the mice Christmas shop. Chloe and I completed the majority of our Christmas shopping today. It was a marathon. Whew! Glad that's out of the way!

Matt's in Virginia at a Por*sche club driving event at Virginia *International *Raceway. He sent us the above photo. He took the Navigator and towed his car behind for the 10 hour drive. He went with a friend so he had company. We hope he's having a good time!

November is Celebrate Adoption Month

We are in an article written for a local publication on adopting internationally. You can see the article here.

VOTE

It's election day, don't forget to vote. We have a hotly contested NJ Governor's race and I am so pleased that today the campaign ends and the 6-7 robo-calls I get a day will end! I'm off to go vote and then take Chloe to school. Chloe always comes with me to vote--I want to instill in her that it is our civic duty as citizens.

Dance Party

We installed a dimmer in the basement and that required a family dance party. This is a video of Chloe dancing to one of her favorite songs. The ending is the best.