Welcome

We set up our adoption blog so you can get to know our family a little better. I started blogging back in 2007 and have kept up with it over the years. At the end of every year, we print off our blog for that year and give it to Daniel's mom for her Christmas present. She keeps all of her children's yearly journals in a notebook that we will get back one day to pass down to our kids. I try to keep it up to date as much as I can.


When we decided to start the adoption process, I decided to make an identical blog for birth mothers to read. Everything that I write about my family on our personal blog, I copy it over to my adoption blog. I understand that an adoption profile only gives limited information about us and we want you to have the opportunity to really get to know who we are and what we like to do as a family. Our adoption blog will show you who we were even before we adopted our boys. Feel free to read as much as you want or click on the links up above!

Sunday, October 26, 2008

One expensive board game...and one long post

So lately Laura (and I) have played a lot of the game Rummikub on our computer. I used to play the real game all the time growing up. The only problem is it is one player only on the computer. So I went out and bought the real game to give to Laura for Christmas. Well, after a while, it just seemed silly to wait until Christmas to open the $10 game. If it would keep us from going out on the town one night in the next three months, it would more than make up for its cost. So I gave it to her and we have played the game quite a bit. So far, so good.


Well, being the impatient person that I am, I would frequently remind Laura when it was her turn. Being a man of few words but also a polite person, I couldn't be hassled with saying "its your turn" as it was too many words, but I also didn't want to be rude and just tell her to "go" all the time. So I settled on the nice, polite term of "you're up". After a couple dozen times of saying it, "you're up" started to sound exactly like "Europe".


Saying "Europe" a couple hundred times while I was waiting for Laura to move, I guess the bug was planted for me to want to go on a big vacation. A trip to Europe was out of the picture just a few months ago with the value of the dollar just tanking against other major currencies. But luckily, the liquidity crisis hit and the dollar has gained back some ground.


I got to researching on Saturday and went to see how much a trip would costs. As I was researching various places, i got an epiphany. Why don't we go to a place that has had severe currency devaluation in the last few months....i.e. one country hit especially hard by this credit crisis...Iceland. Yeah, its not really a part of mainland Europe, but it's still an awesome place and with the credit crisis causing the dollar to gain against the krona, everything is at least 50% off what it was a year ago. And it's still falling.


So anyone out there wanting to go to Iceland with us, we're planning to go around June or so! And just so everyone knows, Iceland and Greenland really should have their names switched. Greenland has a lot more ice and Iceland has a lot more green that their names suggest.




This above is Iceland, below is Greenland



Now for part 2 of the post....what makes all of our vacations possible. Our lack of kids! We've been vigorously saving up our money for a long long time in preparation for a kid, but since our address apparently hasn't been entered in any of the storks' GPS systems, we haven't had a baby dropped on our doorstep yet.


Instead of being depressed every month, I've convinced Laura that we need to go ahead and make lemonade out of lemons instead of always having a bitter taste in our mouths. So we decided to use some of the money we've been saving up for forever and do something fun. Here we come Iceland! After all, we're young, have no kids, and luckily have money saved up so we can take advantage of the rare opportunity when a country almost goes bankrupt. Hold on Iceland, we are coming to help your economy! Way to go us!
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