100 Things

1. food
2. water
3. clean water
4. cell phone
5. internet
6. clean clothes
7. toothpaste
8. money
9. car
10. heat
11. gas
12. love
13. friends
14. strawberry smoothies
15. hummus
16. TV
17. health
18. a good bra
19. pedicure
20. smiles from passing strangers
21. My God Children
22. Lye -- as in the kind you perm your hair with :)
23. Sonya -- my beautician to surgically apply the lye
24. OB Tampons
25. frequent flyer miles
26. Toms Toothpaste
27. Deodorant
28. God
29. Music
30. My Mac
31. 4 inch heels
32. Remote 
33. My Mom
34. Navigation
35. Yellow Legal Pads
36. Sex
37. Eye glasses
38. Instant Messenger
39. White Gap T-shirts
40. Green well worn head scarf
41. Peoples Court
42. Good Books
43. Butter
44. My brother
45. Camera
46. Education
47. Bible
48. Travel
49. Meditation
50. Orange kool-aid with Lemon juice
51. Thongs
52. Two pillows
53. Toilet paper
54. Birth Control Pills
55. Merlot
56. Hell - Any Alcohol!
57. Vision
58. 400 thread count
59. Freedom
60. Google
61. My reputation
62. Dajuan
63. Refrigeration
64. Furnace
65. Fan
66. Power
67. Stimulation conversation
68. Sunglasses
69. Fresh flowers
70. Blogger
71. Conscience
72. Youtube
73. Common Sense
74. Fruit
75. Clean Water
76. Shower
77. Facebook
78. Lulako
79. My Dad
80. People Magazine
81. Pictures
82. A good mattress
83. Blood
84. Insurance
85. Atlas
86. Perfume
87. Good will
88. Rosemary
89. Love
90. Family
91. Martini
92. Peace of Mind
93. All 4 seasons
94. The laughter of children
95. clean water
96. My fellow PAP's
97. Eyebrow Arch
98. Clean water
99. Humanitarian spirit
100. Clean water

Imagine 100 things that you CAN NOT LIVE with out

Now imagine living without ANY of them!

100 Things.... 

can you give 100  -- little/ inexpensive/ insignificant to you  -- things --- 

to someone that doesn't have those things that I can't live without?

I have a daughter in Africa.  I am going to get her in a month.  I am collecting 100 THINGS.... I have lofty goal set to get my baby.  Failure is not an option.  Because at 6 months she has lost more than I will every gain....

100% is the only options.....

More to Follow!

TTYL

Robbin

BTW.... check this out... http://thewaterproject.org/

Yay!!!

INTRODUCING

SCOTLAND ROSE LULAKO HOPKINS

Although this picture is a not the most current pic, its one of my favorites. Its like she is saying.... "um yeah... whatever!"

Yes I passed court. Sorry for the cryptic message in the last post. I felt it was important to post that because I had been working on it but I never finished it. But I wanted everyone to know my Babycakes is headed to the US of A!


Ttyl

Robbin

Faith not Fear

This post was previously written on 6/19/09 but I never finished it

So ya'll know I'm very kool, kalm and kollective right? WRONG... Last week I completely lost it!!!!

See what had happened was .....

I was blessed with this video from Amy E from her travels in early May, and i could never open it. So out of the blue one night Amy gets it fixed up and sends it to me. Now ya'll should know that Catrina is a video maniac and has been waiting on Lulu's video since way before she got her own referral. So any way I open of the video...1 minute and like 3 seconds....and I am completely torn. I mean is this my baby... can this be my daughter? She is so tiny, so helpless. Is she sick... is she OKAY????? I mean Lulu was VERY tiny when I got her referral and she is growing SOOOOOO slowly.

All the thoughts that run thru your head... its just overwhelming. I'm talking 5 days before court and am I really RECONSIDERING!!! SECOND GUESSING!!!! or God forbid REGRETTING?!?!?!?!?!

Can I take care of a sick baby?

Man, i just did not want to think about this. So I just got really really quiet. I think that EVERY parent worries about the health of their baby. Regardless if you give birth to a child or if you adopt a child, the fear of the unknown is VERY great. The problem is this. There are a ton of birth parents that discuss these fears. With their family, their doctor, their friends -- a therapist). They do extra test and obsess over the ultrasounds, they prepare a special diet and stay out of the way of smokers. But adoptive parents, we don't have the luxury of taking all of these precautions. We don't have the luxury of holding our little one and and assessing all the fingers and all the toes. This is obviously the first thing that a mother does after birth (not like she can send Baby back...). We require the same reassurances. So we rely on the monthly reports, the pictures, and the short 1 minute videos. And we assess. I'm telling you... I was not pleased with what I was seeing. I was terrified actually.

Added on 7/02/09

Enter my partner in crime Celeste  . So I reluctantly sent the video to Celeste (not Catrina, she's too perky lol). And Celeste instantly heightened my fears. Celeste and I have made this journey from the beginning and we have had some real heart to heart talks, so we know each others breaking point.

Well to make a long story short, after me and Celeste acted like complete maniacs, enter Valarie.....who traveled across the world to check on my little Lulu!!!

Say Hello to Lulako


Now Riddle me this...........