Happy camper
posted in Adoption, OmegaDotter |OmegaMom is a happy, happy camper right now.
I sit here typing this at my new desk. In my newly painted office, painted a bright and cheery duck yellow color with white trim. Filled with nice, new, white office furniture from The P0ttery B@rn. With lots of study, well built filing cabinets.
All of which made me happy enough, because now it actually looks like an office, and I feel like it’s my space now, and I can actually try to organize things and keep things clear and clean in at least one room of the house.
But the creme de la creme…the thing that is making me dance on air tonight…
I don’t know if I mentioned this in the blog at any point; I know I’ve mentioned it in a comment or two on other people’s blogs:
We had lost all of OmegaDotter’s adoption paperwork except for the original official red folder containing the adoption certificate.
Birth certificate? Vanished. Abandonment decree? Vanished. Registration of adoption? Vanished. Chinese passport? Vanished. Long since. We had become resigned to the idea of having to spend many dollars and much time trying to recreate these items. I was too embarrassed to talk about it on the blog. What kind of devoted mom of a Chinese adoptee was I, anyways?!
But tonight, filled with the Urge To Organize brought on by the new (sturdy! attractive!) office furniture, I delved into the ratty old chintzy falling-to-pieces filing cabinets and started going through files, tossing out ancient insurance certificates and owner’s manuals for things we haven’t had in our possession for years. The bottom drawer of the first filing cabinet had been jammed shut for quite a while by the aforementioned owner’s manuals, but some determined digging and reaching and yanking out jammed pieces of slick paper finally undammed the jam.
And there, in the midst of some totally unrelated stuff…
I found the buried treasure, the Ark of the Lost Covenant, Shangri-La itself:
Birth certificate, abandonment decree, registration of adoption, and Chinese passport.
Woot!
Next weekend we put up curtains and put in bookshelves, and I will post pics.
