{"id":770,"date":"2007-10-15T08:08:22","date_gmt":"2007-10-15T15:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/?p=770"},"modified":"2007-10-15T08:08:22","modified_gmt":"2007-10-15T15:08:22","slug":"big-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/?p=770","title":{"rendered":"Big Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just realized that today is a pretty BIG day for us!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>J1 is home!  We toyed with the idea of having him finish this week (Friday is the end of the quarter), but worried he&#8217;d just be a distraction to the other kids.  So, he&#8217;s here!  At 9am we&#8217;ll start &#8216;school&#8217; &#8211; mainly he&#8217;s going to write letters to his friends at school &#8211; and at 10am we are going to go try and get more of the curriculum we need!  I&#8217;m also hoping to squeeze in a trip to the skate park as a sort of &#8216;hurray-for-homeschooling&#8217; celebration &#8211; but the weather says rain!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m going to call the foster care certifier.  I plan to say &#8220;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?&#8221; I think. I don&#8217;t know.  I&#8217;m pretty nervous about it! Please pray for us today!  I still haven&#8217;t heard from the foster mom &#8211; emailed her a week ago, texted her 3 days ago.  I&#8217;m hoping &#8220;Princess&#8221; is doing well.  I hate not knowing!  At least we are getting closer to being ready here at home!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Prayers on both of our BIG deals is definitely appreciated!<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-official sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><div class=\"fb-share-button\" data-href=\"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/?p=770\" data-layout=\"button_count\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"share-pinterest\"><div class=\"pinterest_button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fosbornz.net%2Famy%2F%3Fp%3D770&#038;media=http%3A%2F%2Fosbornz.net%2Famy%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2014%2F10%2Fcropped-poppy-150x150.jpg&#038;description=Big%20Day%21\" data-pin-do=\"buttonPin\" data-pin-config=\"beside\"><img src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/images\/pidgets\/pinit_fg_en_rect_gray_20.png\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/?p=770\" data-text=\"Big Day!\" data-via=\"Knitnmom\" >Tweet<\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-tumblr\"><a class=\"tumblr-share-button\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tumblr.com\/share\" data-title=\"Big Day!\" data-content=\"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/?p=770\" title=\"Share on Tumblr\"data-posttype=\"link\">Share on Tumblr<\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-print\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-print sd-button\" href=\"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/?p=770\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to print\" ><span>Print<\/span><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#\" class=\"sharing-anchor sd-button share-more\"><span>More<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"sharing-hidden\"><div class=\"inner\" style=\"display: none;width:150px;\"><ul style=\"background-image:none;\"><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Big%20Day%21&body=http%3A%2F%2Fosbornz.net%2Famy%2F%3Fp%3D770&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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