Life Lessons

Everyone is wanting to know..................................Are you ready????

Well the first part of the homestudy was very uneventful. Mark and I sat at a table with our case worker and answered questions like----- What is your biggest strength in your marriage?, Your weakness in your marriage? What does your family think of adoption? Your kids? etc... Most of the questions seemed very simple. At least to us. I don't know if thats a good thing or not. Our discussion was short and sweet. I didn't feel like it was a good opportunity to really KNOW us, but I'm sure its routine. Next week its at our house and a bit more personal I'm sure. I am really hoping for the chance for the case worker to really get a feel of what our family is like and not a cold interview. Of course you look back and wonder what you could have said differently or better since she doesn't know us at all but we just tried to be honest. I was a little discouraged to find out that it will take about 4 weeks to write our homestudy then 4 more weeks to be approved. THEN the matching process. I really expected this part to move faster based on other families experiences I've heard about. Oh well, this is where I get to practice patience AGAIN *sigh* Maybe in time for Christmas we will complete our family. Not that the one I have isn't awesome already!!!!!

School is out for the summer! Wish I had a summer! AH the good ole days! Why didn't I appreciate them more???? I am super excited about Brendan going to his new school this fall. He left school on his last day today sobbing because his best friend all through the year just decided to be mean, rude and hateful the past couple of days. It hurts my heart to know someone could say the things she said to ANY of my kids! Or anyone elses child for that matter! And that child that is hurting so much inside that causes them to be so angry and mean, my heart hurts for them too. I don't understand it and I have an even harder time explaining to my kids why some people act that way. I'm sure in some strange way maybe it was her way of dealing with the separation of friends or something. Who knows. It just makes me sad. I wish I would have been a psychologist like I planned when I was younger. Along with the architect, photographer, model, and whatever else there was! LOL. Full time mom is the best job! I'm sure when the alarm doesn't go off in the morning for school that Brendan will be OVER IT and happy again!! Life lessons are so hard! And everything Mark and I have learned or been through in our lives effected the outcome and the answers we gave in our homestudy yesterday. Everything we have gone through had an effect on that very moment! Thats why its so important to help our kids along the way.

My family and I went to lunch at Chick Fil A today to try to cheer Brendan up a little and there was a nice, sweet black man that was working there. Just carrying trays and refilling drinks. He came by our table several times to talk. His name tag title was Marketing. I'm not sure if this is a new thing at Chick Fil A or what. Anyway, he was facinated with Nicks height.....6'5" or say :) The man couldn't believe Nick didn't play basketball. We have tried to get him to play to no avail many times. But this man really got Nick thinking. The man told Nick that his height was given to him by God and ONLY God and it was up to him what he did with that gift. WOW! I wish I would have listened to advice like that. That is one of my regrets. I hated being tall. He went on to tell him "I promise it will change your life!" HMMM? Who really was that man? Thank God for him!!!
I also want to remember friends today that are going through a rough time right now. I don't want to say names, but you know who you are. I am thinking about you and praying hard for you!



Love you all!