Thank you to all those who have been supportive over the past few weeks!!! The blog comments, texts, emails, phone calls, prayers, personal communication, coffees, lunches and yes, even a few hugs, have meant more than you'll ever know. It's so encouraging when going through a difficult situation to have those who know you well rally around. Thank you for believing in us and our family!!!
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This morning we have a visit from our friendly neighborhood adoption social worker. I'm hoping that we'll hear that all of Steve's paperwork is in from the other states and that she has all the paperwork done so we can file for a court date for Sophia's adoption. However, I'm not holding my breath. God's timing not mine.
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Sophia was in underwear all day yesterday and didn't have any accidents! Now that I can concentrate on her a bit more, she's pretty much potty trained! Yay! It also helps that we have two working bathrooms now.
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When Anthony was in the throes of his temper/behavior problems, we moved Zeke downstairs into Riley's room. It's helped to have a place for Anthony to calm down by himself and at least now if he breaks things, they belonged to him anyway. The problem now is that Zeke has been getting into Riley's things and either stealing them or breaking them. A few days ago, it was Riley's money. Yesterday it was one of the LEGO vehicles that Riley had spent a long time building. After he builds them, he likes to sit them up in his room and then bring them down to play with later. I'm not sure what to do with Zeke. I'd like to move him back to Anthony's room but that's not an option right now, if ever. We need to keep Zeke and his stuff safe too. I've also thought about moving Zeke's bed into the family room downstairs but that would be hard when Brittney is up later and Zeke needs to go to bed.
Right now, Taylor and Sophia share a room upstairs, Anthony has a room to himself and Steve and I have the other upstairs room. Zeke is currently sharing with Riley downstairs and Brittney has the other bedroom downstairs. We've talked for the last 5 years about putting an addition on our house and it's all been talk so far. But it might have to come sooner than we'd like. I only purchase things that we're able to pay for with cash so we don't have to worry about debt. When we had Mills Construction draw up plans and give us an estimate on cost, the addition was in the neighborhood of $60,000, but that was 3 years ago. In the plans, we would add two more bedrooms downstairs and then upstairs we would be adding on to our bedroom with a bathroom and bigger closet. Also upstairs, where our deck is now would be a dining area added on to our kitchen so that we could put in a big table where we could all eat together. Probably not happening anytime soon but we'll probably have to get there eventually.
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My 20 year class reunion is this weekend here in town. I'm not going. Ok. I keep wavering back and forth. Friday night there's a family-friendly get-together at the park and then ending up at Skinners. Saturday is a tour of the high school, golf and then the actual reunion at the Swiftel Center Saturday night. I'm just not sure that I really want to go. With facebook, there's no need to satisify curiousity about anyone because it's plastered all over the internet. Plus, it's nearly impossible these days to find somewhere for my kids and Brittney is already babysitting elsewhere for money. I guess we'll have to wait for the weekend and see what I decide. Really leaning towards NOT going!
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