The Wandering is Over

I Posted this earlier today on Zoe's Blog:

OK, so I haven't posted yet on Zoe's blog. Does this make me a bad dad? Does it mean that I haven't cared enough to post up to this point? I personally don't think so, those of you who already know me know that I am quiet concerning my feelings. I have never been one to share what is going on deep down inside me. But now that this is really getting ready to happen, it is time to hear from me. I have been quietly excited from the beginning, I have been pretty sure that the adoption was going to happen, I just didn't want to get too excited, too soon. I felt like if I let all of my excitement out early I would peak to soon and wouldn't have the energy to finish strong. Little did I know that when we started all of this it would take this long. I appreciate all of the support that many of you have shown throughout this process, without your support I know that we would have never even made it this far in the adoption process. I am constantly amazed by the generosity of our friends, family, and on occasion complete strangers who have helped us through the process. Now, as we expect her referral in the next few days it is the time to get too excited.I seem to have lost the ability to focus on anything. Focus has never been my strong suit anyhow, I am easily distracted by shiney objects. I don't sleep well, and I run to the phone every time it rings. I can not even begin to tell you how excited I am, I have waited a very long time for this day to come, and now that it is here I am not sure what to do, so I will revert to some of my old habits.

I will list for you some of the fragmented random thoughts I am having about the adoption.

1. I wonder what Zoe will look like. There is a rumor that they try to match the looks of the child with the looks of the adopting father. ( Scary)
2. With the time difference between here and China, when we come home, we could feasibly go back in time. (COOL)
3. I cannot wait to eat real Chinese food. (MMMMMM)
   If the monetary conversion rate is 9 to 1, could I take $100,000 Convert it to $900,000 Chinese dollars and retire?
4. Just how much wood, could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? (sorry, FOCUS)

Here is a verse from the Toby Mac song Suddenly, it has helped me with the wait:

"Sometimes it's in an instant, Sometimes we wait for years, But it comes down to the moment when faith eclipses fear, Your wandering is over, The other side is real, You've broken through, Your mountain moved, And mercy is revealed, His mercy is revealed. Yeah."

It may not fit just right for our situation, but it has helped me.

Tim

Contractions

With Zoe coming soon I have been thinking a lot about contractions. Why don't (do not) we contract more words? This thought process all started with the contraction of will not or willn't. I've (I have) heard people use this one before and wasn't (was not) sure if it was a real contraction. When I checked it is not an official contraction (for now). Well I got to thinking, what other words can be contracted. Can words like jump it, play it, kill it, read it, basically any word followed by an it. be shortened to a contraction like jump't, play't, kill't, or read't. How about contracting multiple words, for example: your standard willn't (will not) contracted with the old fashioned do't (do it) for the new contraction of willn'td't. An example sentence would be:

"When asked if he would take out the garbage Tim replied : I willn'td't."

"When asked if he would take out the garbage Tim replied : I will not do it."

Just look how much shorter we have made the sentence.

For fun let's (let us) contract some new words just to make life a little easier.

Tim

10 Really Ramdom Thoughts

1. Just this past week I put a floor down in our kitchen, I learned a valuable lesson. Standing up and sitting down as well as bending over again and again, make a person really stiff and sore. In the end though I found the results really worth all of the stiffness.
2. I had a great Christmas, I enjoyed spending time with my friends and family. During church at Lily Sunday night I was reminded that we should think about the miracle of Christ's birth everyday and not just once a year.
3. I love beef jerky.
4. I recently went golfing at the Big Beaver Course, I do not really care for it or for winter golf. But, I played terrible and that may have affected my opinion.
5. Prayer works. Please continue to pray for me and pray for the adoption of Zoe. I am really starting to get excited and nervous.
6. Go, Buckeyes, congrats Troy.
7. Once you go off a diet, re-starting it is hard. Jan 1st is just a couple of days away. Farewell Mt. Dew, you will be missed.
8. New teeth on a baby are really, really sharp.
9. Hat candle wax, is hot. It is also fun to peel off when it dries.
10. and finally, while listening to XM radio: I learned, Todays gas stations are like mini-malls for the less fortunate... if, you are looking for a painting on velvet, or a black t-shirt with a coyote printed on it.

Tim

Hey, Back to movie trivia... who said this, and in what movie:

"Stay in school and use your brain. Be a doctor, be a lawyer, carry a leather briefcase. Forget about sports as a profession. Sports make ya grunt and smell. See, be a thinker, not a stinker."