{"id":2473,"date":"2010-07-21T18:14:40","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T23:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willandadri.com\/blog\/?p=2473"},"modified":"2010-07-21T18:14:40","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T23:14:40","slug":"its-just-plates-but-its-totally-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willandadri.com\/blog\/archives\/2473","title":{"rendered":"it&#8217;s just plates &#8211; but, it&#8217;s totally not&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>we&#8217;re up to wrapping up lots of projects that have been on the books for way too long.\u00a0 sometimes you just look at things and you think &#8211; well, we can do that next weekend &#8211; or, let&#8217;s put that on the back burner &#8211; or, we really just don&#8217;t have time for that right now.\u00a0 well, the time to wrap up all of those things on barnhill is now.\u00a0 i&#8217;d been working on the dining room since before will&#8217;s surgery, and it got pushed to the back burner for a long time.\u00a0 however &#8211; proud to report &#8211; as of today &#8211; it is done!<\/p>\n<p>we hope to be doing a lot more of these little piddly projects that we&#8217;ve been putting off.\u00a0 as we prepare to file adoption papers in december we have come to the conclusion that our time to lounge about is just about over.\u00a0 our focus has shifted.\u00a0 will imed me this afternoon to tell me all of the chores he was going to work on when he got home.\u00a0 the crazy thing is that we are both excited to be on this band wagon because we know that the more stuff we get out of the way, the easier it will be for us to feel 100% comfortable when we file papers.<\/p>\n<p>i realize that this blog post has sort of spilled into a crossover of the topics that are generally on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.willandadrifindbabies.blogspot.com\">www.willandadrifindbabies.blogspot.com<\/a>&#8211; there has to be a point when they become one.\u00a0 i&#8217;ve started to wonder lately just when that will happen, and the more i write, the more i realize that our lives are all about our excitement for the baby that will soon be in our future, and the plans to get that baby into our home.\u00a0 you know when you are truly ready to parent &#8211; 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