For all my faithful blog readers:  Obviously I have not been posting here lately.  Life has become so busy that I have found updating on Facebook is much quicker and more efficient.  So that's where I am these days.  Please come over there to find out the latest news and updates.  xoxoxoxo

Yesterday Birthmom asked me how long we were planning to keep J.  She wanted to know if we would ever give J back to her. 

• Life has been very good and very busy around the Mosby house.  We are of course as busy as ever.  I'll try to give you some general updates. 
• Jasmine keeps us laughing all the time.  She tries very hard to sound like she knows what she's talking about.  For instance, it's a bit chilly here today and she just took off her sweatshirt.  Scott asked her why she took it off and she replied, "Because it's hot out tonight.  It's cold out tonight." What???
• Nikita is growing much more quickly than I ever imagined she could.  She does very funny puppy things.  She is hilarious with baby toys that make any noise or music.  Today she growled, barked and wrestled with an Old MacDonald singing toy for a good half hour.
• Foster care stuff can be a real bummer.   As I mentioned in a previous post we are moving toward out trial date in August for the termination of B's birthparents parental rights.  However........at the same time they have increased visits with Birthmom to 2 hours twice a week including one of those visits being in her apartment.   I hate hate hate having to take him and leave him.
• We are almost done with our 2008-2009 school year.  We can hardly wait!  This was a fun semester with the older kids reading classic novels for reading.  L has read Robinson Crusoe and King Arthur and his Knights.  N has read Jane Eyre and Sherlock Holmes.  And D has read Oliver Twist and Tom Sawyer.  After each of their novels, we then watch the movie version as a group and they share the things that were the same or different from their books.  Claire wanted to get into the action so she is now reading an easier version of The Swiss Family Robinson.
  
• I bought 40 bins and am organizing a packing up items to store in the attic.  What in the world do I put in 40 bins you ask.  Let's see, for footwear alone we need 2 bins for ice skates, 2 bins for winter boots, 2 bins for mud boots,  1 bin for slippers, 1 bin for crocs, 1 bin for hand-me-down shoes for a grand total of 9 bins JUST FOR FOOT WEAR!  Now figure in winter coats, snow suits, off season clothes, and all the other miscellaneous items you would think should go up in the attic. 
• Scott has been busy clearing all the junk and garbage out of the brush around our property this spring.  The previous owners left tons and tons of 'stuff' around the property.  We should make a good deal of money when we take all the metal to the scrap yard.  We are really looking forward to having a completed yard!
• Our AWANA year ends this coming Wednesday.  Natalie will be the first one in our family to receive the Timothy Award.  To achieve this reward she had to memorize 286 Bible verses in 4 years.  We are so proud of her!

About 2 months ago my mom had knee replacement surgery.  She is not doing well at all.  So Scott suggested I fly out to see her last weekend.  It was a nice coincidence that it was also Mother's Day weekend.  Devon joined me so I was with one of my children as well.

Mommy & Devon

Today was our 1st court appearance regarding the Termination of Parental Rights for B's birthparents.  Birthdad was a no-show which is Strike One in our favor.  We were also given our trial dates:  August 11th & 12th.

We also have a due date for Baby #3.  October 7th.

Saturday night Claire had a Daddy Night.  She and Daddy went bowling all by themselves.  They had  a wonderful time.  Claire even beat Daddy on a round.  (or so SHE thinks )  Daddy let her have as much Sprite as she wanted and by the time she got home she was so giggley I couldn't understand a thing she was trying to tell me.   After bowling they went out to eat and had a wonderful time. 

Sunday afternoon Natalie had some Mommy Time.  She and I went to see Confessions of a Shopaholic.  Very cute.  Before the movie we went out to Ruby Tuesdays and ate until we thought we would burst!  We got three different sampler plates and had a great time trying all the different items. 

After our movie we went over to Best Buy and bought the family a Wii with money the children had saved up from Christmas.  We didn't tell anyone we were buying it that day so it was a big surprise when we walked thru the door with it.  Scott got it all set up and we only had time for everyone to set up their 'characters' before bedtime.  Monday afternoon everyone rushed to get school done for their Wii time.  Jasmine is GREAT at the bowling, I tell you!

Today was our annual eye doctor appointments.  We always look forward to this.  All 8 of us go as a family and have a lot of fun helping one another pick out new frames and watching one another get the glaucoma puff.  We love our eye doctor AND her staff.  They are so good to us and LOVE that we all come together.  They love watching our family grow and are so good with each of the children.  Today's big event was that Devon and Levi recieved their first set of contact lenses.  Just another grown up step.  *sigh* 

To cap off our day we found out that we have a trial date for the termination of Blaine's Birthparents' parental rights.  It will be April 6th.  Please pray for all involved.