Approval on Extended Ages!!! WooHoo

Just heard from our case worker and she is mailing our new Home Study with our wanted ages changed. We will now officially be considered for ages 0 through 7.
We have inquired on 2 little girls this week. One of them is new on the list and getting all kinds of inquiries. While the other, we inquired about several weeks ago and never heard anything back. So we re-sent it last week and I called today. Almost all the children that we have inquired on are out of state so I won’t even worry myself thinking of how we would get the money to go get them till we hear back one day.
Anyway, the newly listed little girl’s agency requires that our CW contact her CW directly. Our Case Worker is so awesome and in less than an hour of hearing from me, she had already called, left a message and faxed our HS over to her. SHE IS SO GREAT!! Lets hope that upping our oldest age from 3yrs to 7yrs will get us a few matches. . . .

A Moment of Frustration

If the following doesn’t make any since, sorry, just ranting______
We have inquired about aprox. 4 different situations in the last week or so and either haven’s heard back yet or they are not open to out of state placement yet. Uggggggg. What a pain. Larry and I had originally had our oldest age desired as 3 and then once we started searching ((and spent our private agency money on the house)) we upped it to 6. Well, we had to request to have it changed in our Home Study because 2 of the situations that we have inquired on this week, if those Case Workers checked the exchange ((list of parents fitting the profile)) we wouldn’t have shown up because we they were like 4 and 5 years old and we caped ours out at 3. Our Case Worker has to submit a request to the higher ups ((not really sure who that is??)) and will let me know next week.

Ok, lets just think about this for a sec. The chances of us getting a NON special needs girl under the age of 3 from the FL foster care system are pretty much slim to nun. It would have to be either pure luck of the draw or a myrical from God and laid right in our laps. It is a total Zilch from other states.

I guess I am just a little depressed about it all. And with the Holidays coming up, it really bothers me. No child should be without a family for the Holidays. The other day, J asked me if we could buy a present for his future sister and if she didn’t come before then, we could just save it for her.

Just having a moment of frustration, I will be my normal happy, cheery self in the morning. Sabrina

Totally Addicted to Watching Meteor Showers!

So, my kids are totally addicted to watching Meteor Showers!
The boys went to bed the next night asking if we could get up again at 1am and watch them. I told them no but, we would watch the one next month. Then I found this cool site with tons of info on it and realized that even though it’s past the peak, you can still see them.
Site= http://www.meteorblog.com/ So, we went out the next morning before breakfast and saw more than we did the night before. TOTALLY AWESOME! We got up earlier this morning to go out but, its over cast and you can’t even see the moon. So, we went back to bed. We are going to try again tomorrow morning cause they just can’t seem to get enough of them and that is wonderfully fine with us cause again, the Wishes and Memories are totally worth it! As Meteor Mark says on his site = Keep Your Head Up!

Happy viewing everyone, Sabrina

Our 08 Family Pictures

We inquired about a sib. pair today from FL, 1girl and 1boy. haven't heard anything yet.

So if you know me (Sabrina), you know that I LOVE Pictures of my family. We had our Christmas pictures done early this year and I think they turned out really good. All the adoption books and info website's say not to put studio pics up because they look staged and people want to see you in your natural setting. WELL, scroll down and you will see plenty of us in our normal setting because we are always snapping pics here and there.

I like to think that our family picture helps show that there is plenty of room for more little "Punkins in the Patch" so to speak.
I hope everyone is enjoying this WONDERFUL fall weather!!

 

Every Child should Wish Upon a Shooting Star ! !

It is now 2:30am and I just snuggled my punkins into bed after watching a little bit of the Orionid Meteor Shower. We had this whole lesson about how this shower is actually small pieces of dust and rock from Halley’s Comet that only passes earth twice a year. So on and so forth. Anyway, they were so excited yesterday afternoon. But, we were so sure that when 1am rolled around, they would probably choose sleep instead. To our surprise, they hopped right up and were raring to go. We took snacks, pillows, blankets (the whole 9 yards) and had fun.

We only saw aprox. 12 to 15 total. But, that was enough for 2 little boys who had NEVER seen anything like it.

We all made WISHES and MEMORIES tonight and that is all a mother can ever ask for in life.

Sabrina

P.S.
J got his hair cut!! After 2 years of letting it grow long, he got it cut. We were trying to let him be his own person and have it his way but, are sooooooooooo happy that it is short again. IT LOOKS SOOOOOO GREAT !! did I mention how thrilled we are that it is short again? hahahaha, they grow up so fast!

 

Pictures of "Smores by the Fire" & Fall Pumpkin Pics

Pictures of our "smores by the fire" & Fall Pumpkin Pictures.

 

Pics of Bugs room now that the planets are up!

I forgot to put up a pic of the bug's room now that it has the Planet's on the wall & hanging from the celing. ((the greeen and yellow pic on the lower right is the before pic))