Peas & Carrots, Carrtos & Peas!

My feeling with the Vietnam adoptions are still medium, I guess it depends what Yahoo groups that you read, still tons of conflicting information. The MOU will not be resigned, however Vietnam still wants to work with non-Hague agency's, against what the US is pushing for. Since our agency is non-Hague I keep hoping that Vietnam will keep with their plan to continue working with non-Hague agency's and still process applications that have been in Vietnam for months. The current agreement expires this Sept. so no official announcements yet.. Our agency hopes to be accredited by then. Still its nerve racking. No one ever said this was easy. I wonder if it was easy for Brad & Angelia, did they read and cling to every chat room?

We did have a nice burst of warm air today, almost spring like. We tried to fly a kite, but most of the time was "stop stepping on the line" "get it out of the trees" "watch out the string will cut your hand" At one point it reached the top of our home, only to crash to the ground.

Our neighbor has a huge garden area, they shared it with us last summer, we managed it, watered, weeded ect. Her husband died late fall, the garden was still not fully harvested, so I wondered all winter if we would have the joy of a garden again this summer. Then she came over today, (see nice weather brings out people!) YES! She started telling the list of things to do before planting, we started today pulling out 20 rows of dead corn stocks and various plants. The ground was nice n soft so pulling them out was great. Last summer, we ate vegetables all summer and fall, even pulled leftover carrots in the winter thaw. It will be so nice to have that again this year. Even the daily fight with the local deer, its worth it! On a side note, this garden is like medicine to me, it helps to endure the waiting, keeping the mind and body busy. Going to bed nice and tired with no time to ponder.