One Year Ago Today

One Year ago today we officially started the paperwork process. I cannot believe its been a year. A Lot has happend since then. These pictures are from when we finished our paper chase. As I said before I have to give credit to Fil for all this. This paper pregnancy, as most people call it, was his and he did a great job. Here are the kids back in May when we sent our dossier (all those papers) to our agency and our wait began.
If you look up at our ticker you know that tomorrow is our court date. We are praying that everything will go smoothly and nothing will need to be rescheduled. We received our referral for our baby girl back in October and it has been a long wait not only for us but for the other 4 families who received referrals on the same date as we did. We are looking forward to meeting them on our trip. Please pray for us so we can go pick up our children soon. February sounds good to me.

Congratulations

to the Harpolds and Wegners on their sucessful court date. We are rejoicing with them and their new family members. If our court date is sucessful on Friday we will get to travel with them. We are looking forward to traveling together.

And The Teacher Of The Year Is ...

.... Sam?... Nate?

(I see a profeser here by the way.)
... Emma?
As you can see the kids had fun with my new glasses. Yes I do wear reading glasses and I blame it on too much blogging. Maybe not. I do read a lot with the kids and by myself. I sure hope none of the kids will have to wear glasses any time soon. Anyway I hope I will make as Teacher of the Year in our household.

Tuna Sandwiches and Nate

Ever wonder how to get your 6 years old to eat tuna fish? Here is a true story on how my boy got to love tuna sandwiches. I asked my family on Saturday what would they like for dinner. It was late and I was running out of time and ideas. Nate looked at me and asked for tuna sandwich. Both Fil and I looked at each other and said:" Sure Nate". He persisted on having a tuna sandwich for a long time. First let me tell you that Nate is very passionate about Star Wars and since we put him on Star Wars detox he moved his attention to the Calvin and Hobbes comic strips (thanks to Fil). For those of you who don't know this comic strip it is about a little boy named Calvin and his stuffed tiger named Hobbes. Even though Nate doesn't have a stuffed tiger he has his brother Sam with whom he has many imaginary adventures like those in the comics. Hobbes loves tuna so I guess that is where the idea of having a tuna sandwich came from. Nate showed no interest in tuna fish sandwiches earlier and I never realy pushed it. We live on a east coast and we all have been spoiled with fresh fish. All of our kids love fish and chips and I tried to make them regularly (that reminds me I haven't made them in a while). They like fish a lot but never expressed an interest in tuna. We tried to explain to Nate at the dinner table that tuna is fish that comes from a can and he argued with us that he loves fish. I pulled out a can of tuna and Fil made Nate a tuna sandwich for dinner. And guess what?
He loved it. I guess that is one way to get your kids eating fish. I will have to search through the comic books and try to find some other good ideas (I never found the comic strip that Nate got his idea from). Here are some pictures from the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip.

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heart of the matter

I don't know if any of you noticed but I do have a few links on homeschooling on the right side of my blog. I love reading The Heart of the Matter and today I came across their blog roll. Since I updated my blog rolls last week I added the links to my blog as it contains helpful homeschooling resources. If any of you out there are homeschooling I encourage you to have a look.

Hearts for Homeschooling: Top 100 Blogs

Lotion

I'll admit that I do sometimes weird things. This is one of them.

A few years ago a friend of mine from Denver showed me how to make lotion at home. As you can imagine this interested me and since I made several batches of homemade lotion. You need all sorts of different oils and butters which I had never heard of. They all smell very nice and when you put it all together you will get lotion (ok it is more complicated then that but you get the picture).
I haven't made a batch in a long time and for some reason on Friday I decided to make a batch. Fil calls me a Voodoo women when I start melting and mixing all the ingredients. This time Nate was fascinating with the whole process. He watched me most of the time and after he put quite a bit on his face. He is my little scientist.