Archive for November, 2007
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Thursday, November 15th, 2007Annie had her four year well check today. She did very well. She had herself completely worked up all morning over the impending shot, yet when it was administered she was completely fine. My silly girl. Annie continues to be the same size as Kimberly. She is in the 50th percentile for height and the [...]
Startling facts about Ethiopia
Thursday, November 15th, 2007DID YOU KNOW? · Every year, more than 80,000 Ethiopian children die from Malaria. · One third of almost 80 million people living in Ethiopia stay alive on less than $1 a day. · Only 31 percent of women 15 and older can read and write. · Safe drinking water is available to only 24 [...]
What’s Next?
Monday, November 12th, 2007“What’s next?” ~ Madeline AKA Dorothy Today she was playing with the white board in the kitchen. She was scribbling and said she was writing Dorothy’s name. She asked me, What’s next (she has heard Annie and Kimberly ask what letter comes next when they are working on spelling something.), I told her “O” was [...]
Not Quite
Sunday, November 11th, 2007“Bob the Builder. can we fix it? Bob the Builder. I think so.” — Kimberly Sung while walking down the stairs. I’m pretty sure she’s never seen a whole episode. (For those without kids, the lyrics are a more certain “Yes, we can!”)
A Well-Deserved Day Off: The Other Side
Friday, November 9th, 2007I took today off to give Sandi her day off—luckily, my day off was paid (unlike hers). A day off for her is a day on for me which is a day off to me. I spend my time with the ladies in little batches, so it’s nice to get a whole day with them [...]
A well deserved day off
Thursday, November 8th, 2007Tomorrow I will be taking a mental health day. I will be scrapping all day and all night in order to get some scrapping accomplished and some time to myself. I really need both. I have had so much stress lately with the children, the adoption, in-laws and just life in general. I am such [...]
How can you say no?
Thursday, November 8th, 2007“Mom, someday can I please get a new kitty like this?” ~ Annie “Why don’t you have that one?” ~ Cousin Michelle Today we went out to Cousin Michelle’s house to get our hair cut. Michelle’s cat had kittens a while back. Today Annie asked this question when we were there . . . Now [...]
Cute as a cupcake
Tuesday, November 6th, 2007I am going to make another tonight. I think I would like it with .5 to 1 inch less cupcake holder. I will see how that looks then I will list them for sale.
Homestudy
Monday, November 5th, 2007The homestudy went very well. The children were polite and well behaved. The house was clean enough to be inspected and the conversation was easy. It was 1 hour and 15 minutes long. She asked questions that ranged from how Bill and I met to how we discipline our children. This go round I was [...]
Homestudy scramble
Sunday, November 4th, 2007Our first in home visit for our homestudy is tomorrow afternoon at 2:45. We just found out this afternoon. If we didn’t take this appointment we would have had to wait for our first at the end of the month and then the second some time maybe in December, but with the holidays that is [...]
He’s Not Amazon, After All
Saturday, November 3rd, 2007“I hope he has it.” — Annie Said quite seriously to Kimberly when Kimberly mentioned that she was going to ask Santa Claus for a new bike like Annie’s. I think she thinks—quite appropriately, I might add—that Santa’s operation is basically like a mobile Costco.
Adoption Paperwork Progress
Friday, November 2nd, 2007We have been very busy the past 2 weeks getting more and more done for our adoption. *Mailed our packet into our homestudy agency and are waiting on a date for the in home visit. Should get that date next week. *Fingerprinted with CIS *Bill and I began our shots for the trip *Received 2 [...]
Our Brave Girl
Thursday, November 1st, 2007Madeline is such a brave girl. Her knowledge of hospitals, especially Phoenix Children’s, makes her eerily calm when she is there. Bill rode in the backseat with her holding the toilet paper to her wound. There was no parking in the ER area so I jumped out of the van with her and headed in [...]
3 Government Agencies and 5 stitches
Thursday, November 1st, 2007Today we started out on our big adventure. We left the house about 9:30 for the MVD. We found it fairly easily and went in to get my new photo taken for my current license. I went ahead and got my SSN removed as my license number and changed my address to my current one. [...]
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