Sheets – my nemesis?

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This weekend I caught my coworkers up on our situation and I shared the following:

So, hopefully I’ll have more answers later next week.
One thing that struck me as funny. I had set up our crib and stashed the car seat we’ve been loaned underneath it. I felt sort of presumptive – but I wanted to show that we had room. I knew it made sense, but I felt a bit silly having an empty crib in our house. She walked in our room. Looked at it. I was sure she was going to make a crack about ‘jumping the gun’ or something. She just looks at me and says – you have sheets, right? LOL I laughed out loud. I’d resisted the urge to buy sheets TWICE this week – not wanting to get ahead of myself!
Amy, who’s buying sheets today – PINK ones!!!! 😉

Saturday, Ruth, J3 and I hit Wal-mart (and a few other places lol) where I bought crib sheets! Sadly – no pink ones. I’ve measured and measured this crib mattress. I bought the sheets that say RIGHT ON THE PACKAGING that it is the right size. But they lied!! So, today I have to take sheets back to Wal-Mart.

And, then Sunday my sister-in-laws (Eric’s younger sister, Sue, and my brother’s wife, Christy) came to Target with me — who doesn’t want to go to Target?!?! 😉 and I found sheets just a bit bigger – but still listed as the correct size for my crib’s dimensions and PINK!! – but they are still too small! 🙁 So, I’m returning sheets to Target today too.

At this point, I’d buy a WHOLE new crib if I thought

  1. I could fit it in our room and
  2. I could find sheets for it!

I’m afraid to buy sheets online – imagine the chaos in returning them?!?! So, I’m going to try the local Penny’s and the semilocal Toys R Us (as soon as I can figure out where one is!?!). And, I’m going to quit getting so tired that the fact that I don’t have sheets is making me cry! If anyone is local and thinks of another place for me to look – please let me know!

PS Wednesday the Oregon caseworker meets with the D.A. and by Friday the California caseworker should have her report done! I think that means by late this week or next we’ll have more information on what will happen next!!

PPS I’m doing cloth diapers this time. If anyone has suggestions for knitted soaker/wrap patterns and yarn suggestions (affordable is a consideration) – please let me know! I want to get busy on some!

Thanks for letting me vent! 😉

Wow…that was anticlimatic

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The caseworker from California came today. She talked to us for awhile – and if we hadn’t been so chatty it might have been shorter – walked around our house with her clipboard, met our boys …. and was gone!

So…..um….now I guess we just wait for her to get our fingerprint results – 2-3 days – and write her report. Then she’ll send that report to Oregon (I think) and we’ll go from there. She said she’d call us next week. So, I guess we are back to waiting – but I was sure I’d have reams of paperwork to fill out all next week and I won’t!

I sort of feel deflated….thrilled, of course… but wow….that was it?!?

😉

How can it be Thursday already??

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This week is flying by!!  My mind is all a jumble…so here are some thoughts…in no particular order:

  • How weird am I think think that the caseworker will notice that my windowsills are clean?
  • Homeschooling J1 & J2 is going great!  Most days we’ve been done in plenty of time to spare.  Today, however, we’ve been focusing on company and the rest of the work (math) will be done tonight.  But there is another plus to homeschooling – blessing others can come first, the work will still be there!
  • Tonight is Tiger Scouts Den meeting.  No one has replied to the email I sent yesterday asking for a snack volunteer – or acknowledging receipt in any way.  I hope someone shows up!
  • I have a crib and an infant car seat in the house!
  • I’ve decided to cloth diaper – now to find out how to do it! 😉
  • Please pray for me blogless friend T – she’s got 3 weeks left in her pregnancy and she has Shingles. I can’t fathom the pain she must be in!  She and her son, A, spent sometime here today – I was hoping it was a nice distraction for them both.
  • Went to dinner with another couple last night – sooo nice not to have to cook! And, Lemon Supreme pie for dessert!  YUM!!
  •  Before I go to bed tonight I need to – finish laundry folding, mop the kitchen floor, clean the tub (yeah…still not done!) and dust the living room.
  • I want CHOCOLATE!!!!

Sorry this was so random and quick…that’s my brain right now!!  Hoping I have something interesting to share after tomorrow’s visit!

Ooooh! That was fun!

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Last night I skipped out on the Boy Scouts (feeling a bit of guilt!) and went to a WACHE meeting of the year. It was the deadline to register for membership. To be honest, I was feeling like there was little they could offer me. I was only homeschooling one child – who’s special learning style precludes any co-op classes and he doesn’t like the park days. Then with the conflict with Boy Scouts I can’t make the monthly meetings, that was it. I was a member in name only.

But the new leadership is doing some fun things! Last night was alot of fun! If they were all like that – I wish I could make more of them!

We had a guest speak share about Letterboxing. My friend Robin has been doing it for about 3 weeks with her family and it has sounded like SO much fun! We got lots of info last night and I can’t wait to try it with the boys! If you do it – please let me know!!

Here are some links she shared with us – hope you enjoy them!!

On an unrelated topic – anyone want to keep me accountable? Today I need to do the following (but all I want to do is climb back in bed!!) in addition to my normal chores, homeschool, work:

  • Clean the tub  (moving to tomorrow)
  • Put everything back under the kitchen sink done 9:40am
  • Clean out the bathroom cupboards done 3:00pm
  • Buy two cupboard locks for the bathroom (tomorrow)
  • Email my Tiger cub scouts and plan this week’s meeting
  • Take J1 & J2 for haircuts (done!)

Now I REALLY want to go back to bed! And, if I remember correctly – I’ll have our home spotless for this home study but then we’ll just sit in one room and talk and get paperwork. However, I still MUST have this house perfect by then…wouldn’t you?!

Big Day!

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I just realized that today is a pretty BIG day for us!

  • J1 is home! We toyed with the idea of having him finish this week (Friday is the end of the quarter), but worried he’d just be a distraction to the other kids. So, he’s here! At 9am we’ll start ‘school’ – mainly he’s going to write letters to his friends at school – and at 10am we are going to go try and get more of the curriculum we need! I’m also hoping to squeeze in a trip to the skate park as a sort of ‘hurray-for-homeschooling’ celebration – but the weather says rain!
  • I’m going to call the foster care certifier. I plan to say “My name is Amy and you should have gotten paper work from ICPC last week RE our adoption. What can I do to bring my baby girl home as soon as possible?” I think. I don’t know. I’m pretty nervous about it! Please pray for us today! I still haven’t heard from the foster mom – emailed her a week ago, texted her 3 days ago. I’m hoping “Princess” is doing well. I hate not knowing! At least we are getting closer to being ready here at home!

Prayers on both of our BIG deals is definitely appreciated!