Twenty days!

A LOT has happened in 20 days!! I have so much to say! So many posts are in my head, screaming to get out....First things first - had a meeting w/Fabi's social worker and the term 'TPR' came up. That's Termination of Parental Rights. When we accepted Fabi into our care, they asked us if we would be willing to adopt and we said yes. But here we are, actually hearing words that like that and it's SO EXCITING!!!!! Well, not that exciting b/c it hasn't actually started yet and it still might not, but the fact that it was mentioned and that time is coming close to that is another step on the path...

AND - there's even better news! Fabi is eating and drinking a bunch! She was sick a while back - more on that later - and she just got hungry and thirsty enough that she started and didn't really slow down! We are going for another weight check tomorrow to see if she's keeping her weight up...I don't know if she is, but I pray it's enough to show that she's made progress on her own!

I guess those are the big, exciting type news items. In the past 2 months, there's been a funeral, black water coming out of the drains and sink, a prom, a vacation in NC, 2 summer school jobs secured, lots of online homework, a road trip w/4 kids and a camper to KY/OH, conflict w/a social worker, 2 kids signed up for school next year, a baby that started crawling, etc...I have a mess of photos to share and I wish I had time to do that tonight, but I don't. So I'll do what I seem to be doing a lot of these days...talk about what's coming up! FLOWERS!!!! And more appointments of course. And more camping and wedding parties and hopefully a big BYOM BBQ in the backyard! (That's bring your own meat/main-item-for-vegetarians bar-b-que, for those of you that haven't been introduced to our style!) Not only that, but I'm going to be sure there will be more posts coming soon...

Time Out for Momma

I've had good behavior, but I am still quietly sitting on the steps. This week we have 3 extra kids at our house for respite. Like Mo, they don't take naps anymore, but like Mo, they need quiet time! So I currently have all 5 children spread out in separate rooms and I am monitoring from the steps. No one is really doing anything like trying to get out of it (they know we do this every day) but they tend to wander or try and talk to each other if I don't sit at my post. I'm not complaining b/c I enjoy this quiet time out but I tend to run out of things to do sitting here. It dawned on me that the blog has been neglected again, so I thought I'd take a few minutes to fire off an update post...

...only I feel weird talking about all that's been going on. It's been a blur and writing stuff here won't do it a justice. If you know me IRL you know most of the stuff anyway.

So I'm going to write an update on what I want to be doing =)

I'd love to get back into the habit of working out again. I miss my bike too. It's rainy today and the temps are going to be quite low tonight so they put the S word back into the forecast. You know I love snow, but only if it's enough to be playing in. Snow at this point in the year is just an annoying nuisance and seems to impede all the spring/summer activities from getting off the ground. Or in the ground. I am hoping to garden again this year, w/my boxes over at my friend Tracy's house, and maybe a few things nestled in the flower beds too. I really want to get some seeds under a grow light but that means some work in the basement needs to be done. I'd love to do some scrapbooking if time permitted. I bought a small album and ran off a few pics of former foster kids so I could make a mini-album to help remember them =) I'm ready to walk/bike to the grocery store and church again, ready to camp, ready to visit the secret beach, ready to hang more wash outside...ah, yes, spring fever...