Tagged by Laura

I saw my friend Laura's blog page yesterday and have found out I have been "tagged" to give 7 little known facts about myself. I have been giving this some thought and it is not as easy as it sounds. Hopefully my answers are not too lame!! Here they are:

1. My favorite colors are blue and pink. For many years it was just blue, but over the past year or so, I have been obsessed with pink too. So, as many of you can imagine, as soon as I knew about Mia, I went straight to work getting things for her room that are all pink!!!!

2. I am NOT a computer person. I mean, don't get me wrong, I work with computers for my job, I love to email people, and I do pretty well with my blog. However, anything complicated, like all the fancy things people have on their blogs (songs playing, pictures flashing, etc.) I have not the slightest idea on how to do those things.

3. I am VERY scared of snakes. I can't even watch them on TV. In Florida we had a screened in porch and a snake got in there once. My dogs were outside and I could barely utter the words to get them inside because I was so paralyzed with fear.

4. When I was younger and thinking of what I wanted to be when I grew up, I had two dreams. The first was to own my own daycare (because I love kids so much) and it would be called "Holly's Happy Kids." My other dream was to own a bakery with my mom. Both my mom and I love to bake and I get along with her so well that I thought it would be fun to own a bakery together.

5. I have been with my husband since I was 17 years old. I know I was young, but I guess when you have met that special someone, you just know it, and I happen to meet mine when I was 17. I look at it this way, it is that many more years I will get to spend with him!! I love you Mike!!!!!

6. Along the same lines as knowing someone for a long time, I have been best-friends with my best friend Katie for 18 years. She knows everything about me and I know everything about her. We have no secrets. We have always been there for each other and I know that she and I will be best-friends for the rest of our lives. My children will be lucky to have Aunt Katie in their lives :)

7. Last but not least, my name could have been Monica. When my parents were trying to decide what to name me my dad wanted the name Monica. Well, since I ended up being born a couple of weeks after Christmas, I got the name Holly!

There you have it, 7 things you may or may not have wanted to know about me :) I am supposed to pick 7 people to "tag" but instead I will copy my friend Jennifer and anyone who reads this and has a blog can consider themselves "tagged" by me and must do the 7 little known facts about themselves and then you are supposed to leave me a comment that you did this so I can take a look at it. Have fun!!!!!!!!

In IBESR (Haiti Social Services)

We received some good news this morning; we are in IBESR!!!!! This is Hatiti's version of social services and the first major step towards bringing our children home. Diana from the adoption agency emailed us that we went in last week, on May 10, 2007. Our file numbers are #15090 and #15091. I have a link on the right to my favorite blogs. There is one that is for IBESR updates and it updated by someone that puts the file numbers of files that have come out of IBESR. So, we are able to look at this blog and when numbers close to ours have been out, we know that we should be out soon. We have been told that an approximate time to be in IBESR is about 5 months. Right now, the post-IBESR part of the process is taking about 4-6 months, but they are working on it to have it be faster. Then our kids come home. So, right now we are looking at about 8-10 months until they are home, but we can hope they fix the post-IBESR part and they are home sooner!!! I guess we will see. We will have a much better idea of the time frame once we are out of IBESR. What is funny is we wanted so badly to get into IBESR and now we will wait on news that we are out :)

Last night Michael and I watched the series finale of "The King of Queens." On last weeks episode the main characters, Doug and Carrie, decided they wanted to adopt from China because they had never been able to have children. Well, this being the last episode, they of course got that phone call to go and pick up their daughter. First, it made us kind of upset that they made adoption seem so quick and easy, which neither of those things are true. But, I do realize it is television, so I was able to deal with it. Second, I got very upset and cried for awhile because when they received that call to go and pick up their daughter, it made me want so badly to get that phone call to pick up my own children. I just feel like that time is still so far away. To see that happening to someone (even if they are characters in a show!) made me ache for that to happen to us.