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Now this is maybe more info than you wanted, but I am PMS'ing in a bad kinda way. I am feelin' whole new levels of grouchiness today and feeling incredibly pessimistic about some things and ridiculously warm and fuzzy about others. *sigh* I will be happy to receive menopause as a gift, I think. Conception and carrying children is amazing, a miracle....but it will be just as much a miracle to not be an evil troll once a month! Personal disgustingness aside, today was another simply marvelous shopping conquest. I decided to go back to Salvation Army and took my boys with me. We made out like bandits - my oldest got a very very nice suit (which appears to maybe have been worn once, for just under $4!). Plus, we also left there with a total of 8 t-shirts (nike,old navy,etc), two skirts, a dressy sweater, a sweatshirt with cute "mommy-isms" on it, a suit, three dress shirts, 3 pairs of jeans for my middle son, a pair of dress pants for him too, two belts, three ties, a beautiful purple winter coat (for my daughter for next season), an aquarium and roughly 20 books...for $59.04...... Oh yeah!!! We didn't know until checkout that just from the 25% off sale yesterday, everything was 50% off today!!! Yayyya!!!!!(My books were only 5 cents a piece!!!!) Then we went back to Trendy Teens and Kids First (a consignment shop) and there, got my other son five pairs of shorts, a suit (very nice as well), two pairs of pants, a short sleeve button down; two dresses for my daughter, two pair of shorts, a pair of jeans and two t-shirts for my youngest, three t-shirts and a very nice leather jacket for my oldest......total there was $89.00 (i forget the change). (Oh, I also got a copy of "What To Expect When You're Expecting" for the pregnant 19 year old daughter of one of my best friends.) We were piglets and went to Arby's and Burger King for lunch and just porkered right on out, plus had a lovely french fry fight in the truck and spilled a large amount of my iced tea in the floor board....but had a good time goofing with my teenage goober-heads. I got an email from one of the Kentucky social workers today, very encouraging...she actually sounded excited that we are interested. I am soooo impatient to get our homestudy done. I am still waiting for the packet from our county, nothing yet. I also emailed a couple of local agencies that do homestudies, doing a little comparison shopping. I had been told to go thru our local DFS, because they will pay for the homestudy, and being the thrifty chick I am, that was appealing. But not appealing enough to wait endlessly for the wheels to turn. So we are definitely investigating our options. Is it too impatient to say, I hope that one child in particular will be living with us by the time we go on our annual vacation to the North Carolina coast? I pray pray pray...so, lol....we shall see see see! Well, one of my finds yesterday was a giant bag of markers. Most are washable, ha ha ha, but not all!! Naturally the NON washable are the ones my two year old gravitated towards, so I have been snagging them from him all evening! Homeschooling is still at a standstill - again, somewhat laughable because this is supposed to be a homeschooling blog. Ahh well, one of the bright things about being unschoolers is things like the aquarium find. The oldest is already scrubbing and going through all the seed/plant catalogs, the scientific supply catalogs, etc, preparatory to making it into a terrerium. He wants to make a series of little aquarium habitats, so one with plant life, another for fish, another for reptiles, another for amphibians, another for reptiles and yet another for desert life. So natch, his brother is somewhat jealous, which prompted another endless debate about why we are NOT getting a bird of prey (of ANY kind), why we are not/cannot have an iguana in the same house as a two year old, and why we are not getting either one of them a monkey or a venemous anything!!!! Arrggggghhhh.....then he went slinking off muttering about how pansy-ish a parakeet is, insulted that I would even suggest something so foppish, how dare I?!? You know, I thought I should mention, not that this defines who my children are but that it is a fact of daily life. We are so used to it, but w/e....of the four children we still have at home, one has dyslexia and ADHD, two have high functioning autism, one of those has a seizure disorder and I think the two year old is showing early indications of ADHD as well. We do not medicate. We do not do therapies or IEP's or any of that. We tried it all, and wound up with very damaged children, very depressed children. So, we are homeschoolers. So I get a bit tickled when anyone thinks we might struggle with "special needs" encountered in the adoption process. Ha! it is a daily fact of life here, not to mention the damage we did to our own children by being stupid in our early adult choices and thus, divorce and all that that entails, including the ugly custody battles, the PAS, the child support issues. Becoming Christians was the best thing that ever happened to us, aside from having our children and marrying one another. God's love has filled gaps in our souls we didn't even know we had. It has allowed us to move away from past hurts and healed us all as a family. There is no possible way we could realistically consider adoption had we not accepted Christ and changed our entire approach in life to a Christ centered approach. Well, again it is getting late and I am prattling, so God's blessings to anyone who reads this. Night Night..
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