News maybe?

Well today or tomorrow we should hear back on the two sisters we put in for almost 3 months ago. Well let me explain a little. I sent in the inquiry and homestudy 3 months ago, I received an email from the case worker letting me know she got my information and if I had any questions I could call or email her (she gave me her phone and extension number). Almost 3 weeks later I was wondering what happened since we hadn't heard anything yet so I called her. She said matching was in another couple days and she assured me she would email me even if we weren't chosen. A couple days later I got an email saying they chose someone else.
 A couple of weeks later I noticed they were back up on the site. I immediately called the social worker (bet she's regretting giving me her number now) and asked if it was a mistake that they were relisted or if they were back up. She said the other family backed out because they couldn't handle the girl's needs but she still had my homestudy and had already put it in the file for them. Three weeks later I still hadn't heard anything so I called again because I'm annoying like that. She remembered me (yay! right that's good?) and told me they just got a matching date for the end of August. Now to me end of August is anytime after the 15th and yet here it is the 30th and still no news. I figure if I don't get a call by tomorrow at 3 (5 pm there) then that means I wasn't chosen and will receive and email letting me know that in the next few days after. So now I am anxiously checking emails and staring at the phone.
 On a side note we STILL don't have any foster placements which is weird. I even mentioned to our licensing worker that we hadn't had any calls. She said thats because they've only been taking in teens this week. That's one of the reason I love our licensing worker, she gives me information even when I just hint that I want more information. I think we'll make her cookies at Christmas time. She's my favorite.

Shameless promotion

 Well today I am promoting my favorite father in law's book. (Yes I know I only have one but he's my favorite of all the father in law's ever because my husbands parents are AMAZING. No they don't read my blog but they are great. Ok ok I'll stop talking in parenthesis) So they book I'm talking about is called Human Interference. Its set just a little bit in the future and its about an air traffic controller (which is surprise surprise both my husband and father in law's career). I didn't think I'd like it I thought it was more of a guy book, you know technology and stuff like that but I ended up really enjoying it. Its set to be released 11-01-2012 and is the perfect stocking stuffer for your husband, my anti reading husband enjoyed it. Oh and the worlds cutest couple is on the front cover ;)

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Goop and Halloween

 So after school today my kids and I talked at great lengths about what we're going to be for Halloween and how everyone's going to tie their costumes into each others. Why are we planning this? Well because of this conversation.
Legoman "Mom, when's Christmas?"
Me, "Um... in December."
Lego "When's that?"
Me "You know the months just count it- you know what its after Thanksgiving." Because this conversations getting stupid but I kept that part in my head!
Lego "When's Thanksgiving?"
Me "After Halloween."
Lego "Isn't it almost Halloween? I saw the stuff at Wal-mart. We need to start planning now or else we won't have good costumes."
Me "Ok fine, what do you want to be?"
Lego "Thor but I can't because that's what bestfriend is going to be. HEY can we all go as Avengers?"
Me "Sure that'd be cute. Cap already wants to be Captain America so who do you want to be?"
Lego "Ironman and Moose can be Nick Fury or Hawkeye or the Hulk."
Moose "SMASH SMASH HUUUULK"
Me "I think he's decided."
Lego "Yeah and you need to be Black Widow 'cause your the only girl. You're prettier than her but its ok cause its Halloween" Have I mentioned how he just might be my favorite?

 Then Legoman's bestfriend came over and we all played with goop. Easy to make and super fun because its both liquid and solid. Twice as much corn starch as water. If you want to color it put food coloring in the water before you mix in the corn starch.

Chandelier

Ok so I haven't posted pictures of my absolutely and wonderfully girlie room yet. I will but first I found an old chandelier at a garage sale and we've finally gotten around to painting it and putting on the bling. I am so happy with the results.  

Before

Wonderful Hubby painting since I kept getting frustrated with the drips.

After

 Hubby blinded by the camera flash while taking the ugly old light down.

 Hard to tell in the picture but its so sparkly when its on, it looks amazing. Hubby thinks I should start an etsy shop and sell them. You can even see my sparkly walls in this shot. Yes the walls are glittery. 

details :)

First day of school

 I'm sure everyone else is putting up pictures of their kids for their first day's of school. My Legoman started second grade (when did I get old enough to have a kid so big?) and my Cap'n started kindergarten. Still no new kiddos which means if we get school age kids I'll have to have them start partway through the year in a new school, unless of course we actually got a child from our area. That could be nice so far all our kids have been at least 45 minutes away from their homes.
So with out further ado my kiddos first day morning shots. 

 Walking to school

 Yes they're holding hands.

 He wasn't so sure about this whole mom leaving thing.

 I'm going to be the only child? I'll have to figure out how to out smart mommy without using the others as a distraction....

Reorganizing and PONIES!

 So the last couple days I've been cleaning, organizing and setting up. I have completely reorganized my pantry and a couple of my cabinets. This was a lot more work than it sounds like. Especially with Moose trying to help the whole time and getting into things every time I started working. Legoman was a lot of help though, he gathered up all the trash and made a tower out of it before hauling it all outside to the trash. Isn't he awesome? 

By the way ignore the mess that is there I'm in the middle or reorganizing and everyone knows how messy that can be.
 Hubby and I also finally got started on the chandelier for the girl room. I started to spray paint it, Hubby realized what I was doing and quickly put a stop to it. Apparently I'm not good at painting and its men's work. So its now purple and I have to wait for my beads in the mail to finish it. I will do before and after pictures of it later.

 Also see what I scored on craigslist for $25? I'm thinking this would be good especially since our age range is 0-7. I still have to go through and finish putting all the sets together because I still wanna play with ponies!

More waiting...

Well I'm still waiting for my next placement so I'll bore you with another story about some of our previous placements. I got a call for a brother and sister. The sister is 4 and the boy is 2.
"No I'm not supposed to take boys, I have a room set up for girls. There's fairies in there"
SW- 'Oh that's ok he's only 2 he won't mind. If you can't take them we'll have to separate them. It should only be for a short time. They'll go to their aunt in a couple days.'
"A couple days? Well I suppose I could just this once...." This whole time I'm thinking well Moose is 2 I have all the stuff I need for a 2 year old. If he doesn't have clothes they can just share for a couple days.
 Later that day 4 year old BrightEyes and 2 year old Hulk were dropped off at my house. Hulk was the biggest 2 year old I had ever seen he was bigger than BrightEyes and Cap! He had to wear the clothes Legoman had just outgrown. BrightEyes was a doll, sure she whined when she needed to clean but was very good at listening most of the time. The most annoying thing she did was coat herself, the house walls and play structure in mud while she was outside. Oh and she refused to flush the toilet or put her toilet paper in the toilet. Icky but not anything that was really difficult.
 Hulk on the other hand was the most articulate 2 year old ever. It was hard to remember he was only 2 between his size and speech. The only problem was he was 2! Two year olds hit and play rough because they're still learning their boundaries. Most of the time that's fine because most 2 year olds are too small to really hurt someone. Well not Hulk. He jumped on Legoman's chest causing a sever asthma attack, I was starting to dial 911 when his inhaler finally kicked in. He also managed to get Moose into a choke hold and squeeze until Moose was turning purple. Luckily Moose bit Hulk and got himself freed before I got over there. I've never come so close to spanking a child that wasn't mine.
 Both the parents in the case were great. I love it when I have parents that aren't mad at me or blame me for things. I had the kids call them almost every night and bent over backwards so they could have extra visits. Note for any parents who have kids in the system. Foster parents can be your friends. I personally go out of my way for the kind parents. Plus the reason the kids were removed was odd. The kids were loved, taken care of and not abused.
 So aunt didn't get them in a couple days. In fact they were here for 20 days. I know I know not long at all but I was so done when they left. They ended up going to another foster placement as we were going out of state for our anniversary and had let them know about it BEFORE we accepted the placement. They had said oh sure not a problem they should be at aunt's by then. Yeah see if I believe that line again. (Seriously though this isn't the first time I've fallen for it.) Kids will be home soon though so that will be good.

The waiting...

We haven't really ever had to wait too long in between placements. We've never been completely empty for more than a month and that was only because we had a 2 and 1/2 vacation and then another vacation withing 5 day's of getting home. The still called me on the day before my last day of vacation asking if I was willing to take a placement. I said yes and came home early even though they didn't get there till the next day. 

So anyways when a placement leaves I deep clean the room and bathroom for them. I don't know why but I feel they should see a spotless house the first time they see it. Goodness knows its not normally clean. Its really similar to nesting when you're pregnant. I spend the whole gap cleaning and then when the house is clean I move onto organizing closets and the garage. Drives Hubby crazy. 

 Today to keep myself from some more crazy cleaning for a few minutes I'll tell you a little bit about my favorite placement. Yes I realize I shouldn't have favorites but shhh don't tell the others. We had an emergency call at about 4 am for a 4 month old little girl. Hubby answered and said yes. Didn't hand me the phone so I could go through my list of questions. Didn't ask any questions. Just said yes. So of course I was asking him these questions once he hung up 'Does she need any clothes?' 'What kind of formula does she drink?' 'Diaper size?' 'Length of stay?' Nope still nothing. I really haven't ever been so annoyed with him, how could he not ask questions? A couple hours later the social worker arrived at our house with the most perfect little girl. No blankets or matching clothes, apparently she just grabbed the items off the top of the laundry basket. Goal was reunification with dad and it was pretty stupid the reason she was taken (if I do say so myself.) Dad was also the main caregiver. We'll call her SweetiePie because that's what she was. We had her for 20 days and she was the easiest happiest baby. SweetiePie came with us to a wedding and everyone was telling me how cute my daughter was and how she looked just like me. No, I didn't correct them because I didn't want to go into explanations. When her dad came to pick her up I was sad but thrilled, he obviously took such good care of her and her whole little face lit up when she saw him. While we would have loved to keep her forever seeing her go home with her loving father was the best thing for her and it made me so happy.

A little update on our adoption search (not that you know me or care about me). About 3 months ago we inquired on to little girls in another state. CUTEST girls ever. 6 and 5, the 6 year old looks like a girl version of Hubby/Legoman minus some freckles and the 5 year old looks like my cousin. I fell in love with their picture, the information that was provided about them was minimal but I saw nothing that stood out as a red flag (ie Not good with pets, shouldn't be placed with younger children, learning to control emotions) so I sent in our homestudy. The state that they are in isn't allowed to tell you any information about the children unless you've been chosen at matching. Matching date happened and they were matched, with someone else. Couple weeks later I noticed they were back up and immediately called their social worker (yes she made the mistake of giving me her office phone number.) Nope it wasn't a mistake the family they were matched with didn't work out. She said she'd already resubmitted out home study, were we ok with that? Of course we were! I've been thinking about these girls for the past month almost! I also sent in a letter giving more details of what we've dealt with in foster care, what we're willing to work with and what we can't handle. Then I never heard anything back. So finally yesterday I called the social worker up again, were they already matched and we just missed the email or something? Oh nope, apparently she'd been meaning to call us but she's been so busy. Matching hasn't happened yet and no being in another state isn't going to hinder you at all. We care more about the right family. Matching will happen at the end of August. She sounded very positive and encouraging, Hubby says I'm over analyzing. So hopefully we hear good news at the end of August. More waiting.....

Intro and Rules

Intro 

So this is my first blog. Why am I doing this? Well because I love stalking people's blogs and reading them, I feel like I get to know that other person. Like there's other people out there going through the same things I am. I love DIY blogs but this isn't one of those, sorry. I love being crafty but I don't have the awesome ideas. This is a foster care/ adoption blog. We (My hubby and me) our foster parents. We intend to one day adopt until we find out girl(s) we foster. Hopefully you get some information about fostering/adopting or you at least enjoy. If not well that's fine, I don't really care this is to help me vent/talk things out. Now introductions!

Me: 

I am a stay at home mom and I love being able to stay at home with my wonderful kiddos. Even when they drive me crazy. I might go to college after my youngest begins school I'd like to be a speech therapist and work with the school. I enjoy baking and dream of being an amazing cake decorator... sadly I am not near amazing but I defiantly get the As for effort. I love reading and will read just about anything. I am hoping that we are able to adopt sisters because I think the bond would be so wonderfully strong and I've always dreamed of being close with my sister.

Hubby:

My wonderful husband of 9 years this past August (together 11 years if you count dating). Hubby is AMAZING he is my perfect fit. Where I have weaknesses he has strength and the opposite is true where I am strong he is weak. He also spoils me rotten ;) Hubby has been in the US Navy for.... 5 years I think. He is an Air Traffic Controller, basically he tells planes what to do so they don't crash into each other. Right now he works a lot but his hobbies include playing video games, flying (if we ever had the money) and building stuff in the garage. In view of the whole adoption process Hubby is much pickier than me. He wants the girl(s) that are meant for us and he would prefer just one. Talk about a spoiled little girl.

Hubby and me in high school 

Legoman:

My oldest child. Legoman is 7 and enjoys playing with Lego Bricks (haha legos isn't correct plural lego is lego bricks) and the child is addicted to his 3d DS. He is supper responsible and one of the most helpful kids ever. He is kind and compassionate and makes friends so easily its just amazing. He is also an excellent reader and an amazing student.

Cap'n: (As in Captain America but Cap'n or Cap is easier to type)   

The middle boy, oh how I love my Cap. He is the most athletically inclined child I have ever seen and is so disappointed they canceled football for the little kids this year. Oh he is 4 and will be 5 this September. Cap will be starting Kindergarten this year he is thrilled and I am still on the fence.

Moose:

My baby. He is 2 years old and the fastest 2 year old ever. He is able to climb the kitchen counters in two seconds flat and get into the knives. Moose loves cooking shows especially Paula Deen, Nigella Lawson and  Alton Brown. 

 This took Moose about 10 seconds.

Rules:

1. I don't want to hear anything negative about my kids ever.I will hunt you down.

2. I don't give out my kids real names because I don't want to have that floating around the internet so if you know my kids stick to their nick names please.

3. Foster children I mention on here are entitled to privacy as well, I'm not allowed to post their pictures or names so don't bother asking.

4. My opinions are just those. You can disagree with me and that's fine I just don't want hate mail or hate comments about it. 

5. I can add more rules whenever I want. My blog my rules.