Even more exciting news in notguilty land. I’ve been MIA because we’ve been madly searching for houses. Our lease is up in two months and while we love living in the city, there just isn’t enough space in our little hipster apartment. I met a kick ass real estate agent, she only works part time so she isn’t your typical real estate vulture, and we saw about 35 houses in 4 days. We found a townhouse in the ‘burbs that’ll give us a lot more space for not too much more money. We signed a contract and we are supposed to close June 30.

One of the reasons for our mad dash to home-ownership is because we have made another pretty big (and we think pretty awesome) decision. We have decided to build our family by adopting from China. We’ve talked about it for months while I’ve been going to the Dr. every morning, getting poked and prodded and while its all fine and well to try to have a biological child, what we really want is to be parents. We talked about different countries, pros and cons of each, and really looked deep within ourselves. I ain’t saying I turned deep or anything, but everything is so much clearer. The coolest part is that our parents are on board with this decision. Husband’s parents just want grandkids, and mine just don’t want their daughter to have to go through the emotional and physical hell that is infertility treatments. We’ve gone to a seminar given by the agency we’ve chosen, and we’ve hooked up with a network of adoptive parents or soon to be parents.

In the meantime, we’re still plugging away at lovely law firm. Working hard and trying to stay sane, all at the same time. Of course, we needed to add house purchasing and baby paper-chasing into the mix, just to see how much stamina we have.

Luckily, we already know we’ve got a lot.