We Found the Culprit

The last few days our little princess has not been acting so "princessey" to put it

mildly.  She does have a sinus infection she is being treated for but we were

 feeling like the antibiotic she was on was more like a huge dose of

steroids!!  As we were reviewing her diet over the past few days we were trying

 to think of anything that may be different causing her to be a little "hyper" shall

we say.  Last night she asked for tea with her dinner.  Gabriella has drank tea

since the day she came to us in China. 

Last week I found a great deal on Lipton tea bags at Sam's Club and didn't

even think about the fact they had caffeine as normally we mix half

Lipton decaffeinated tea with fruit flavored tea bags that we purchase at

Fresh Market. It is a yummy combination. Well, we finally put "two and two"

 together last night and realized our busy little girl arrived at the same time we

switched to tea bags with caffiene. The first errand this morning, to the

grocery store for a BIG box of decaffeinated tea!!

Guess What We're Doing This Weekend???

You guessed it!!  We are putting up our Christmas tree!!!  Curtis and I had to

giggle when we looked at the pictures above and realized that under where

Gabriella is sitting on the box it says "Made in China".  Though many "things" are

made in China one of the biggest blessings of our life was created in China, by

God, especially for our family and we are eternally thankful!!

This is the first time we have ever put our tree up before Thanksgiving as I like a

 definite separation between the two holidays...but as this year Jordan and

Nicholas are both on their individual school basketball teams, let's just say our

schedule is just a little bit beyond crazy the next few months...and I

wouldn't trade it for the world!