Thank you Photobucket!

Okay, I know this picture is a little odd. Josh took it with his camera phone, sent it to my phone which put it on the computer. Once I had it on the computer I played with it until the wierd blue stuff on my face was a little less noticeable. His camera phone isn't real great these days.

Well, on to the story behind the picture.

This is me (on the right of the picture) at the place where we had our fingerprints done for our adoption homestudy. I am waiting for the lady to finish what she is doing so she can take my prints. Just one more step in the process. I told Josh to take a picture. He thought that was weird, but I just had to have something for my blog.

We're coming baby brother!!

Garage Sale Blues

How much is two days (plus) of work worth??

Uhh? About ninety dollars.

A word to the wise, if you live out in the outskirts of town don't expect to have a sucessful garage sale. Oh well, that's ninety dollars toward the "Baby Brother Fund"

Life is...

Unpredictable.

Yesterday I got a call from the school nurse. Little Sis had fallen from the monkey bars and hurt her wrist. The nurse had iced it, elevated it and sent Little Sis ( who seemed fine) back to class with orders to the teacher to watch her. She called me to just keep me in the loop. Little Sis was using her hand to color and not complaining.

Well, I went to pick her up at school to take her to a dentist appointment. I reached to grab her hand to lead her across the busy school parking lot. She said "Ow, my wrist hurts." I looked at her and she was holding the hand kind of funny and out away from her body. Josh was with me, he said he thought it was broken. We proceeded to cancel said dentist appointment and head to the pediatric urgent care clinic. Two very long hours later they told us that Little Sis had indeed broken not one but both of the lower bones in her little arm, just above the wrist.

This is one brave girl. She cried at school when the accident happened, but the entire visit to urgent care she was tough, no tears, occasionally she said "Ow, ow" when the Dr, nurse, radiologist, etc would manipulate her wrist. I was proud of her.

Today we headed to an orthopedic appointment where her splint was traded out for a bright pink cast. (Did you think she'd pick any other color?) Now she is resting and relaxing watching T.V. Dr said she's fine to go to school tomorrow.

Big Bummer Alert: She'll have the cast on until after our Disney vacation. I told her that maybe the Princesses can sign it.

Life is good.

My hubby made it home yesterday. We were all so excited to see him. Thanks to all of you who prayed for us while he was gone. We survived. I am learning to trust God during these times without my husband. It's nice to be able to rely only on God, He is faithful.

The home study paperwork is moving along. Fingerprints will happen soon among other things. Our journey to Baby Brother is moving along.

One last exciting note. We are about three weeks away from our big vacation to Disney. I am pumped and so are the girls. Any advice from those who've been there before?

Sleepy and lonely.

Hi, I miss my hubby.

I don't have a whole lot of interesting things to say today. My husband probably won't be home for at least another week. This being a single parent thing really stinks.

I don't want to spend my whole post complaining. It has really been okay around here. I got to meet one of my blog friends in real life last night. Kara had a baby shower for her new baby boy. It was fun. I had to cart my kids along, due to my lack of babysitter. I told Josh on the phone that my baby sitter had skipped town. He said "Who?" I said, "You!!" He's a dork sometimes.

The days have been very normal. Nothing interesting. Laundry. Dishes. I'm not even sure why I am writing this post. I am reaching out for adult communication I guess. Josh and I talk on the phone but our conversations are short. Whatever happened to the days when we talked and talked for hours on end and I would cry when it was time to hang up. What's that all about?

Sorry for the rambling. I'm really tired. I don't sleep much when my co-spooner is gone.

Have you ever???

I was our running errands today and was stopped at a red light. To my left I saw a man get out of his truck and run up to the car ahead of him (also stopped at the light) He reached above the drivers side window, grabbed a hotcakes and sausage meal (from McD) and handed it to the embarressed mom driving the car.

I was wondering have any of you ever done that?

You place an item on top of the car, usually your hands are full and you're searching for keys. You get into the car and drive off, forgetting the item on the roof.

Once, Josh and I left his cell phone on the truck and drove off. We didn't realize it was gone until we got home. We back tracked and found the phone, in a pile, in the middle of a street about a mile from where we started. Funny thing, we put the pieces back together and the phone ACTUALLY WORKED!!

Any other funny stories out there?

Happy, Happy Birthday, Baby.

My sweet, brave husband turns 33 today. I love him so much. He does everything he does to take care of us. This mans man who grew up with one brother, rough and tumble and gross like boys are sometimes. He is so sweet and loving to our two little girls. His heart is for us and his favorite times are with our family of four. He is so excited to add our baby boy and wishes for him almost as much as I do. He and I started dating when he was twenty. We've grown up together and I still love him. I'm IN love with him and I always will be. He's my soulmate. Happy Birthday Josh. I love you.

P.S. I talked to our social worker today and our homestudy will get underway in Oct. Yay!!!!
So much paperwork to do, but, I know it's worth it.

Yucky Hurricanes

Some of you know that when Josh was deployed it had something to do with Hurricane Katrina. Another state was set to go but was affected by the storm and so Missouri was called up. We found out he was to be deployed a day after my birthday in 2005.

Well, over this past weekend Josh got a call that he was being sent to Arkansas to a staging ground for helicopter's flying to help people affected by the next hurricane, Ike. So tomorrow, which happens to be Josh's 33rd bday, he leaves to go to AR and then possibly farther south depending on when and where the hurricane hits.

I am bummed that he will be away on his bday and also that he could possibly be gone for two weeks. God has chosen to provide for our family through Josh's job with the military, and I'm thankful. But, sometimes it stinks, you know. Pray with me that he remains safe and that the hurricane weakens and all the people on the coast will not be in any danger.

Nothing much going on.

I am rather boring these days. Not a lot going on. As for the adoption, all I know right now is that our packet of paperwork made it to the agency. We haven't heard anything else yet. Keep praying. I know that really the waiting has just begun.