BEEN TIRED...

Well it has felt like such a very long time since I posted last on our blog. A lot has been going on and has kept us extremely busy.

We leave officially May 1st and have already booked our plane tickets. We will be travelling over night on the red eye; we first leave from Saskatoon at around 9:00 pm, then go to Calgary, then Calgary to Toronto and then Toronto to Barbados...there is a lay over in each city. Once we arrive in Barbados, we will need to switch airlines to LIAT which is the Caribbean airline. A not-so-quick-50-minute-ride-in-a-scary-small-turbulent-plane and we'll land in St. Vincent and the Grenadines at approximately 3:00 pm the next day. It will be a long day for us but so worth the wait. We will be arriving officially on May 2nd which just so happens to be Asha's nine month birthday! Yahhhh!!!! This means that we will be able to finally celebrate a birthday with our little angel - we are so excited for that. I cannot even imagine what it is going to be feel like that day as Godrick - Asha's foster father - drives us to their home to meet Asha. I know I will be so excited and overwhelmed and I am pretty certain that I will cry. Some of you may say, "Desiree, you never cry!", pfffffff, very funny...in the dictionary under cry baby you will find my name in big BOLD LETTERS! That is going to be the best day of our lives and I can hardly wait!

We have both still been working full time at SaskTel but Scott has also been working like a mad man in the basement. He has finished tapping and mudding, has painted all of the rooms, has installed the laminate flooring and all of the doors and door frames. Asha's room is all painted and airbrushed just special from her Dadda and it is absolutely perfect. Now all that needs to be done is that the base boards need to go on and final touch ups with paint. Once this is all done I promise we will put pictures of her room on the blog, so be sure to check back for that!

We are both also very actively involved in the Saskatoon Caribbean Association and have planned an event for this Friday night to celebrate the Elimination of Racism Day which is officially on March 21st. We are also celebrating Obama who is the first African American President - this is a huge triumph for not only the black population but for anyone who has ever faced diversity in any way, shape or form. There will be a ton of different entertainers from many diverse cultures from within our city and we have hired Darian Durant from the Saskatchewan Roughriders as the guest speaker. Scott is doing all of the media aspects of the evening, so this has kept him busy. We are hoping that this event will be a huge success and that many end up leaving the event remembering our theme which is, "Yes We Can ~ Celebrate A Dream".

Last week, Scott and I went shopping to buy many of the essential travel items for our trip which included medication for Asha, bottles, some cool clothes for her, some snacks for on the plane ride home and diapers!!! I almost started crying in the diaper aisle at Walmart because I never thought I would be blessed with having children; being able to buy Asha diapers made it all seem so real and I couldn't believe that my dream to be a Mommy was finally coming true. It was such a good feeling! When we got home we put all that we had purchased for Asha into one of our suitcases - there was so many things that we could barely close the zipper. Something tells me that we are going to have to downsize!

This weekend my mom came over and we went through all of Asha's outfits. We got rid of clothes that probably will not fit her by the time we bring her home. We then washed everything and hung it all up on hangers. The outfits are so small - it's cute to see them hanging from the closet rod and for them to not even come partially close to reachign the floor. I had saved all of my toys from when I was a little girl in the hopes that I would end up having a girl myself. Me and my mom went through all of that and organized it in bins that will go into her closet. Finally, it is all starting to come together.

So, as I said earlier, we have been really busy. Please continue to pray for us. Pray that we may get all that we need to get done before we go; that we may persevere and work through the tiredness that we are feeling; that things continue to move along quickly for us in the country so that when we go to SVG that almost everything can already be completed; pray for the foster family, the Ottley's as well as Asha's birth family. Thank you for your continued love and support.