Waiting children

I have recently thought about these three waiting children, twin boy/girl and a 6year old girl. My heart is really pushing me in this direction, but I'm afraid in some ways I will fail at handling it. I always wanted a big family 12 kiddos to be exact. So I don't really know what there is to be scared of. I have faith god will lead our hearts in the right direction.

Garage Sale Successful

Had another garage sale today and for the most part it went really well. Day one raised 500.00. YEAH!!!! I had so much stuff donated it was a mess to set up. But after getting up at 5 and getting out there to put things out I am pretty satisfied with the results. Another day to go though... hopefully as good as today.

WOW! BUSY WEEK!

This week as been crazy. Getting kids to school is crazier than I remembered. On top of that I am having a garage sale tomorrow to help raise more of my money needed. I just hope is goes as well as it did 6months ago. I joined a Illien yahoo group and it seems that referrals comes QUICK so now I am so nervous that I'm not going to have all funds in time. Don't get me wrong I love the fact that paperwork goes in and I could have a referral within a month or so. I love this child more with each passing day which is crazy since we have no clue who she is. I LOVE IT!!!

School in the morning!

My eight year old has been wanting to go back to public school every since the summer began and I didn't really want her in public school. Me and Jason had agreed before putting them in homeschool that if one is to ever want to go back it would only be fair to let them. sigh..... so after a lot of hoping she would change her mind we decided public school maybe right for her after all. We will enroll her first thing in the morning into 3rd grade. Oh how I hate this. 3:15 isn't going to get here fast enough tomorrow. I will still have the older two here with me but it isn't going to be the same. Why does she have to be so independent???

We got our poppy dips in today!!!

These dresses are so cute can't wait for the baby to be able to wear hers. My daughter didn't know about it until she put it on. See she doesn't like ANYTHING ITCHY and just as I suspected its not itchy. Thanks so much Sallee for such cute dresses. Oh and my son thought he wanted one also as you can see in the picture he was feeling a little left out. Sallee should find something for the boys. =)

Wordless Wednesday

Hmmmmm Arkansas??

So my husband is leaving for Arkansas in the morning for a week for work. He is going to check out the place. we will probably be moving there soon as the baby comes home which hopefully doesn't take too long since eventually he will have to stay in Arkansas to work while we stay in Texas to wait. We can do it. Lets just pray that the adoption runs smoothly and referral comes quick and court soon after. Never been to Arkansas everyone says its pretty and I guess anywhere is prettier than TX man this place is ugly, no trees.... no water.... nothing. I have lived here all my life so you learn to look beyond your surroundings but it does get old after awhile. My youngest has been crying thinking if we move her out of Texas that means she isn't Texan anymore....shhhhhhhh we told her she will always be Texan. In her heart she always will be that little stinker.

Finding a name

We have thought about names every since we made the decision to adopt. And have went through oh I don't know about 15 different names so far. Jaida, Zophia, Avery, Abigail......... list goes on but the newest is Laila and I really think its going to stick. Its meaning is dark beauty. I thought that was cool cause I like the name and when we went to look it up we find out the meaning and it was awsome. Of course we will keep babies given name as a middle name and may even decide to call her by that name. Who knows?? By the way if its twins Laila and Leah.

So nervous

Last night I had this dream and it just made me a nervous wreck. I dreamed that I had got a referral and..... hate to put this but I dreamed that the child was just ugly and we hated to say no. Is this normal has anyone else ever had any kinds of feelings like that before. Not to sure what it was about cause that has never came to mind any other time just in my dream and all day today that's all I could think about. I know no matter what we would love the child but having those dreams makes me feel like maybe I'm not ready or something. I had weird dreams like that when I was pregnant. Is this the same??? In fact when I was pregnant with my oldest I dreamed she came out a monkey and that really freaked me out for awhile. Then with my son I dreamed he was born the same size as my daughter who was two at the time. PLEASE someone tell me if this is normal.

My nephew cracks me up

This is Samuel and he is 1 1/2. He is so crazy everytime you ask him for a kiss this is what you get on your cheek so gross but as you can see in this picture he finds it pretty funny because his little smile is being held back. And clothes are non exsistent to him he hates them unless you say outside then he will grab anything to follow you. SO CUTE!!!!!

Dumb things people ask

I have encountered a lot of dumb questions from people here lately especially when they hear that we are going to adopt from Ethiopia. The first thing out of peoples mouths is " What if you get the baby home and find out she has AIDS?" oh let me see send her back..... so dumb of course I hope that isn't the case but if it happens it happens and we're confident we can handle the situation if it arises. Or I hear "How in the world are you going to take care of a black girls hair?" so you mean to tell me people wouldn't love a child because of hair? ITS HAIR FOR CRYING OUT LOUD you learn to take care of it. Sad thing is some of these dumb things actually come from friends mouths. No comment there....... Maybe they are just trying to look out for us.

GOT FOLLOWERS?????

SO HOW DOES SOMEONE WELL LIKE........NEW START TO GET FOLLOWERS? PLEASE DON'T LEAVE ME HANGING!!

Found a school

Well I was talking to a friend today and she gave me some information on a homeschool that has the kids get online and listen and speak to the teacher on a daily basis. THANK GOD!!! This is what I need someone other than myself my kids will be listening to.

To HOMESCHOOL OR NOT TO HOMESCHOOL THAT IS THE QUESTION??

So for the last two years I have homeschooled my kids and my oldest is awsome she just takes her books and does her work and at the age of 13 she is doing 10th grade work. I'm so proud of her she will graduate in two years. But as for my other two I feel that maybe I'm doing something wrong cause they don't always do their work. I have looked into our schools around here and just hate to see them go back, our school district is so bad teachers are terrible to the children not patient at all when it comes to their learning. So I don't know to go ahead and homeschool and not worry about the amount of school work they do in a day or just send them back and try this homeschool thing again another time. I hate decisions like this.

craiglist

A few weeks back I asked all my friends to start going through their things so I could have a garage sale in October. I have this wonderful friend who donated all kinds of stuff including 3 iphones that she went and upgraded just so she could give me the old ones. She kept telling me to put them on craiglist but I always put things off or forget. (my kids say I have Dori syndrome from Nemo) Anyway I put them on craiglist last night and with in 15minutes......THEY SOLD!!!! Wow that craiglist is amazing. Plus praying to god for the funds for our baby helps also. I was just amazed $400 closer baby girl.

Our son Me and my hubby

our children

Father and daughter so sweet

Miss sassy pants.

We are the Brown's

Well to start off we are the Brown family. We have 3 children and are currently in the process of adopting from Ethiopia. We are very excited about this and can barely contain ourselves right at this point. We are hoping for twins of girls or boy girl doesn't matter to us. Not to sure we are wanting to wait for twins so we are also willing to except one. We are using Illien and if anyone has used or are using Illien please contact me with experiences especially if you have adopted we would like to get an idea of how things work after you send your dossier which by the way ours is ready and waiting for October 1. thanks hoping to meet others who have adopted from ET.