Space bags

I got one of those "space bags" to put some stuff into to send to the O. I had made/collected several cloth diapers (a good sized box full) and also got some scrubs donated from a local dentist's office (large, black trash bag full) for the nannies. I got an XL compression storage bag and R was going to help me put the stuff into it. She said, "This is not all going to fit into this bag." Well we kept stacking and stuffing and managed to get everything into this 26"x42" bag. We sealed the thing off and inserted the vacuum hose. When I turned it on our jaws dropped and our eyes popped open. We looked at each other like, did you see that?! That was so cool! We were amazed. After that we decided that it had a better chance of fitting into a box if it was more cube shaped than flat rectangular shaped so we broke the seal. It grew before our eyes. That was so cool too. We decided that we needed to have a video of it. Yeah, I know. Simple minds are easily amused. Anyway, it wasn't as cool the second time while putting it into a cube shape but it was still somewhat cool. It became a 24"x19"x13" cube. All that stuff in that little cube. Our conclusion is that space bags are pretty cool.

We may have some progress on the adoption tomorrow but won't know until Monday. Pray for good news and forward progress. We went so far backward that it doesn't truly feel like moving forward but it could put us back where we were in May of '07.