Friday, June 26, 2009

Tara's "Good and Good for You" Pick for June

NOODLES WITH LIME PEANUT SAUCE: 1. Prepare peanut sauce by pureeing 1/2 c. natural peanut butter, 1/4 c. low salt soy sauce, 1/4 c. water, 2 T. rice vinegar, 2 T. fresh lime juice, 1 scallion, 2/4 inch fresh ginger, 2 T. brown sugar, 1/4 t. red pepper flakes. 2. Toast 1/2 c. unsalted peanuts in a dry pan (3 minutes) and set aside. 3. Prepare 3/4# whole wheat spaghetti. 3. Steam 2 c. broccoli florets for 3 mins.; add 2 c. trimmed snow peas and 2 c. sugar snap peas and steam for an additional 2 mins. 4. Right before serving, toss the pasta in peanut sauce and top with steamed veggies. Drizzle with a bit more sauce and top with chopped peanuts. This is another Allie Krieger recipe from the Food Network. I love it because it offers so many variations--from hot to cold to changing the veggies and adding meat. For those who know the great chef Amy B. ; )...this sauce reminds me a lot of her venison kabob dipping sauce. If you like that, you'll like this!
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Saturday, June 20, 2009

Four Days Closer...

Congratulations to all families with a new member! Referrals arrived/are arriving for LID through March 20, 2006--at least. We are so happy for the many waiting families who now have a face to accompany the dream! We are 19 LIDs away from Baby Rock!
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Thursday, June 18, 2009

The Latest...

Our adoption news source is giving "a high rumor rating" to the claim that matching is finished through 3-20-06 LID, perhaps even 3-21-06. Congratulations to those families who will be receiving a phone call and a visit from UPS any day now! This is great news for us as well as it puts us that much closer to meeting BabyRock, of course. We are eager for good news...any good news...this will do for now.
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Happy Birthday, Mom/Carol/"Honey"!

Everything worked--family and friends arrived early enough to "stage" the surprise; Mom arrived late enough to be surprised, and the sun made one of its first true declarations of summer. Thank you to all who helped celebrate this amazing lady!
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Greetings, Guests!

We will use this blog to share news as we move one step closer to Baby Rock each day.

For those who need a bit of background...
We decided to adopt a baby from China in September/October of 2005. After completing mountains of paperwork, background checks, fingerprinting, etc. (collectively called the dossier), we were officially on China's waiting list on April 14th, 2006. This moment of acceptance is called the log-in date (LID). This date is quite significant because families are matched with children according to LID. If you follow referral dates (the date a waiting child is matched with a waiting family), you will be able to see how close we are to being matched--at least in theory. When we started the process three and a half years ago, China was matching month for month, meaning one month of LIDs were taking one month to match. Now, unfortunately, one month of LIDs is taking about four months or more. So...we wait...we vent...we cry...we breathe...we hope...we believe.

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