FINALLY! The #adoptionprofilebook is complete! This took quite some time, but I think it turned out pretty gawwwwwgeous! Minus our 'wedding page' as you may have read :) I will say this week has been an emotional one for me. I am not good at change, and I think now that the book is done it is really hitting me what a change is going to come. Don't get me wrong, I am SO excited and looking forward to baby vomit and changing diapers, and being peed on, but I often get emotional before big changes, probably more than most. It will always come out in other ways though. Like when my dad was fightin' the canca, I would cry at the most RANDOM non-emotional things, never at what was actually going on. And this morning I sat at my desk and cried over something that definitely is NOT cryable! Like a pregnant woman, but I have no bump in my belly to excuse it. I just have one in my heart and maybe it is as good as an excuse. Luckily, I was the only one in the vicinity at the time, nobody needs to see my 'ugly cry face' and mascara running down my cheeks. It felt damn good, though, I have not had a good cry in a long time. Besides during my "Parenthood" marathons, but that is different. Weeping at your own life really gets that shiz off your chest. It's like a cigarette for your soul.
The other night we brought the book to get printed at Kinko's. We had one printed the other day and it was only 3 bucks. So doing the math for 15 books it would be under 100 bucks, great! WELL, not so great when he said it was going to be over 200 bucks. I was like, "But our one book was 3 bucks! She did it in the back, too!" he said, "Who is SHE? OH She. She is NEW. You were not charged correctly, then." He was actually quite rude the whole convo, so I was like we are ouuuuuuta here! flash drive in my sweaty, frustrated hand (can hands be frustrated?), we went to Staples to get paper and went home to try and print it ourselves. As anticipated, it looked like...it was printed on a home printer. It just didn't have the same quality, though it wasn't as bad as I imagined. This is something we need to stand out and be all FABULLLLOUUUS because this is the first thing the birth parents see. This can make or break you being 'chosen'. I am going to try to print it at work on our laser printer and see how it comes out, and if it doesn't...back to Snotty Staples, in hopes 'She' is working instead of 'he'.
I guess what is another 200 dollars at this point? It is like a pinky toe compared to the upper torso we will be giving. That was a gross analogy, sorry about that. I'm gonna go vomit now. Sure, make it worse, Bumpless.
Waiting for you with smeared mascara and "frustrated hands",
Bumpless Baby Mama
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