Adoption plans

Our hearts have been moved to go ahead and request a boy age 3 or younger and baby girl. Our dossier is in Ethiopia and we have been waiting for the call. I hate this wait its the worst not knowing who are children are. As of today we are number 1 on list for boy and 12 on list for girl so hopefully it will be soon. I will update soon. Hopefully with new of little ones.

Poem

"“Some babies are so special,
They come in different ways
Some must wait for their babies
For days and days and days

Some babies come from close by
The Mom who had them could not’t stay
Other Mommies are waiting for them
For a baby they pray and pray and pray

Other babies are born in a far-away land
The mommy who had them no longer there
But some Mommies fly across the sea
A baby’s love to share

You may have a different skin color
Or a different kind of hair
But the love Mommy has for her baby
Will truly always be there

No matter how you or I look
One thing will always be true
You are my precious baby
And I will always love you"

Tossing and Turning

I go to bed at 8 every night since kids started school, but for some reason I toss and I turn all night. VERY ANNOYING. When I'm not tossing and turning I do like I did last night, sleep really good then 3:30 BANG I'm awake for the day. I usually get on the computer or watch tv. I have even laid in the bed once and tried to go back to sleep till the alarm went off at 5:45 and NOTHING! so by 4 I'm up and cleaning the house. Then get kids up at 6 on bus by 7. The rest of my day is a blurred tired mess but I know if I go to take a nap I will not go to sleep that night. I have these dreams that are just plum crazy don't even know if they would be able to be put into real life anything. VERY STRANGE I guess its better being awake and thinking about our new little princess then asleep having some weird dream about who knows what.

Packing.....

I started getting things together to go get our baby girl. I CAN'T WAIT!!! We will only need to do this another 8 times to equal 12. I just don't think Jason is going to go for it he said maybe 3 more. He is such a good dad I'm really proud of him. Of course we have our issues over the way he is so rough with the boy but it will be ok. I got three bags so far packed, I hope this is normal. We are changing names again our friends beat us to the name Laila so we are going to do Leia no idea about the middle name yet. Jason says Tia.... hahaha Leia Tia Brown I don't think so. I like Leia Faith or Leia Hope. I don't know we will figure it out. If its twins of boy/girl Silas and Leia, or Jacob and Leah, girls will be Leia and don't know yet. Anyway we will figure it out. That's all for tonight.

More Dossier stuff

Illien called and well we had to redo some pages in our dossier. Four passport photos CRAZY!!!! WHO NEEDS THAT MANY PASSPORT PHOTOS THEY SUCK, ALL THAT SUCKS!!! We don't even have a referral yet and we are talking a boy by this time next year. Its crazy how much you can love someone you never met even stranger than being pregnant. We just can't wait.

Family Basketball Game

Lots of fun! Even though the kids say mom and dad are cheaters hmmmmm...... maybe we need to work on that part!

Dr. offices

I took my nephew to the Dr. today and sat there forever. Not many people in the office but the Dr. just took foever to get into the room. We thought my nephew had been running fever because of an ear infection but nothing there. The Dr. gave him some anitbiotic that will clear up what we think is a bladder infection. This is something my daughter always fought with and still does if she isn't drinking enough during the day. I didn't think boys had those problems though. I guess you always learn something new.