Summer Begins

The kids have five fun filled days left of school and then we have them home for the summer. I am glad. I would rather the kids never go to school but then when they do stay home it is one fight after another and I am glad they have to go to school!
Chase will be running off with Grandma to tour the southeast US. They have a two week fun filled trip planned with theme parks, water parks, camping, jem stone searching... on and on. The girls and I will just be home here keeping up the house and swimming.

Also, my Alexis is potty training herself! She is such a smart cookie. We put her potty chair in the master bath and she has been taking her diapers off for about two weeks now.. well the other day she just went in and used her pot. She came out to tell grandma "Ali a good girl" as she was patting herself.. so grandma went to investigate and sure enough.. she had used the potty chair! We have now put her in big girl pants for which she things is great... and hopefully she will be fully trained within the next few weeks!!

I went this week and tested for enterance to the nursing school just down the road. Amanda will go there on Monday to take the first test. I am hoping the government will be so kind as to give us a student loan to help out but either way we will be going. I wasn't exactly excited about blood and the rest but I look at it this way.. if it gets my daughter into a job that will take her into old age so she doesn't follow my foot steps.. then all of it will be worth it!

Now down to the nitty gritty.. Adoption. We are still in limbo. I did talk to our attorney this week in Taiwan. He had gotten a few leads on birth moms that might be looking for an American family... this is like finding a needle in a haystack... but at least he is trying.
I have sent many letters out to doctors and clinics in Taiwan about two weeks ago but I haven't gotten anything back yet on these. So we will just keep waiting!

I get so jealous when I see all these families getting their referrals or the travel but I know our day will come!

Well I am off to have a six year old birthday party today!!
Happy Summer to all!!!!!

Happy Mother's Day! 2008

Happy Mom's Day to all the mom's with kids, the mom's expecting a kid and the best, the adopted moms of the world!!!

Well I sent our package out yesterday to another agency. Yep, one more try. Call it punishment for such a perfect life- at least I thought is was perfect- just these crazy countries don't find my life to be so perfect!! We found a wonderful agency that is not going to take ANY money from us until they are sure that we can be matched with a child. They have been working with Taiwan for a long time and know who to have do the translations on the home studies, how to ask the social worker to write the home study so that it is correct but not to add useless details that can be badly translated, and other things that just might help.
We are not out anything if it doesn't work.. so that is a great thing.

I also got to talk with a woman that has adopted from Taiwan and now works with Independent adoptions in Taiwan. She gave me some great pointers on a few things to try... so that is also in my plans.

And of course.. I am going to keep praying that China changes the rules and that I can go get Wei. It never hurts to have a plan and a dream in life!

Happy Mom's Day!!

Also if you haven't bought a ticket for the fund raiser.. PLEASE DO!! If you are the winner you can book a cruise, a family vacation, air line tickets.. any thing a travel agent can book and it is a FREE $500!!
The drawing is on the 24th of this month so not much time.. and it can be used anywhere in the world.. you just have to go on line to the agency that is offering the $500 voucher to book. I checked out their prices and they are the same as booking direct!! So it is a good deal!
My sales pitch for the evening.