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Friday, April 11, 2008

Posted in In The Family Room

We've been working diligently to prepare our home for kids to placed here with us.  It really is starting to come along nicely.  We have nice living room furniture, our table and chairs are due in within the next two weeks or so,  bought a bunk bed for 100.00 on craigslist and NOW are waiting to purchase the mattresses and bed linens.
 
I moved the treadmill downstairs to the basement, got rid of an old chair that was odd looking, moved OUR bed over a bit more, took things out of the childrens closet...filled it with cute baskets filled with bath towels specifically for the kids, bought new white bath linens for US to put in the bathroom closet, and deep cleaned the upstairs AND the downstairs.
 
I bought some of those safety knotches for the cupboards, moved chemicals either down in the basement or the highest shelf in the bathroom, and as far as safety is concerned, I'm looking for a safety gate I can use on the top of the stairs so toddlers won't crawl out of bed and want to run down the stairs at night.  (I'm so freaked out that we'll have a toddler and I'll sleep through them getting into something)  We'll also need fire extinguishers for each floor and two fire ladders for each room THEN we're done ((laying down from exhaustion.Haha))
 
Our classes start soon and run until the first or second week of July.  We have a homestudy, a fire inspection and lead testing to be done.  Apparently we should have placement by November.  In my head, I honestly didn't think it would take so long.  I'm SO glad we've started NOW.

We're not stipulating which sex or race the child should be but have decided we'll let them know we'd like infant to 4 years old (we had teens in Ohio and would like to have young ones while we're still young enough, THEN add some older ones later on) with any child over 4 years of age on a case by case basis.  We want to be open to Gods plan and figured if we worded it that way, we'd have a bit more information on any older children coming in and a bit more say on who can be placed with us if it's written in our file.

At the same time, my parents are moving into their FIRST home since the 80's when they lost everything because the business they worked for, filed bankruptcy and everyone who worked there lost Everything they worked so hard for. 

It blesses my heart to see them so excited! It really hurt their spirit during those rough years and while they'll have a mortgage way into their 70's, I pray they enjoy all that God has given them.

In the meantime, we've been trying to help mom go through junk, get rid of it, pack, move things upstairs, and had high hopes to help them move next week.  Doug took a personal day on top of his day off AND the sellers pushed the closing back another week during the weekday when neither doug nor I can help them.  I'm an only child so no sisters or brothers to help out.  I'm trying to see what I can do though.  I'd hate to have them do it alone.  At least they hired movers though.

So, as you can see, we have been busy, busy!  I look forward to posting again REAL soon.

Love to you all!