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...