Plus more in a month?

We have 5 PS-MAPP classes left.  We have most of our paper work turned in as well.  I still need to set up a time to have someone come teach us CPR/1st aide.  In two weeks our home inspector will come.  I know we need to get another tot lock and two fire extinguishers.  They aren't coming to white glove test our house but I feel like I have so much I need to do.  I know it's not true but that's how I feel.  I want/need to finish painting the trim in the babies new kids room.  I want to get the office changed over to a play area and paint it.  In a dream world I would have nearly the entire interior of the house painted.  I want to finish putting together my organize board.  Spray paint picture frames for the new room and spray paint some doors.

Today I am stuck in bed.  Every time I get up my whole world spins and I get sick or nearly sick.  Princess has been here to save the day a couple of times.  And as I type the kids are down stairs finishing up the lunches they made for themselves.  I have thought more than once about what I will do if this happens when our new ones get here.  I keep telling myself that I rarely get this sick so it's not something to concern myself with but when I try to get out of bed and have to catch myself on the wall I keep thinking about the possibility of a crack baby and no one here to help.  I guess me and the new kiddos can just cry together.  That's just part of being a mom sometimes.  When your kids get older it's something you don't think about much any more.

It is very possible and most likely that we will have our kids at the end of August.

Well that's wasn't all that bad

We had our interviews with our case worker today.  Since we were having it in our home I made some planned activites for the kids to try and keep them busy.  They did really well.

I had the case worker and another lady shadowing her follow me up to our room to do the interview.  I figured having them up there would keep the kids from answering questions for us again.  I sat on the egde of my bed facing the workers while they sat on our love set, all the while wringing my hands and trying to remind myself not to rub my ear (nervous habit, what can I say, it soothes me).  To sum it up, it wasn't bad at all.  She just asked some question refering to some paper work we filled out.  We finished up in thirty minutes and then on to J's turn.

We found out tonight that our worker A likes us as well.  She told us after she met us the first time she told her boss she just had to have our case.  That just thrills me.  I was just telling J that I wanted to be personable with her.  I figure if she is going to showing up at my home unannounced then we should be more than acquaintances.  I am trying to convince her that our neighborhood really rocks and she and her husband should stop looking and just move near us!

I don't know how much sense any of this made.  I am on a "our home interviews went great and A really likes us" high.

A thousand words

I shouldn't be doing this.  I shouldn't be sitting here looking at this screen.  What I should be doing is compiling finding a picture to submit with our paper work.  Do you know how hard it is to get a picture with every family member in it smiling in addition to getting the dog to look in the right direction?!  Nearly impossible.

I don't want to just settle for a picture.  I have one that I really like, all of the kids are smiling big smiles.  And it's not that J and I look mad there just isn't much of a smile....plus no dog.  So I can't send in one without J and I not smiling because who wants to give people kids if they can't even smile with their own kids and the kids have to be smiling because who wants to give you kids if you don't make your own kids smile

All this being said they are going to get over kill because I know no other way.  I need a smiling pic of me and the husband, one of our house, one of the dog, a smiling picture of my babies and just to appear well rounded maybe a picture of the pet rock.


First thing on the list  for tomorrow: get a pet rock