Happy New Year!...

To all our friends and family!  We sincerely hope that 2011 is the year that sees all of your trials and tribulations end.  We hope that whatever your wish for the year is granted.  We hope that everyone who is waiting for their new children meet them soon and bring them home!  After all that's all a child really wants.  A family to call their own and to know that there are people in this world who will be there for them forever!

So far the new year is starting out good and not so good.  The good part is that we are all happy and healthy.  The not so good part is our very expensive boiler system (furnace) went kaput and there isn't anybody around here who knows how to fix it!  The other not so good part is that our oldest is having a very hard time getting back into the routine of homeschooling.  Which is also trying my patience terribly.  ( A wise woman once told me that I should never pray for patience because God will just give me more ways to practice it. LOL  She was right!)  I've also had to cancel a very important appointment with a specialist 3 times now because I got sick and the uncertainty of the weather.

So, with that stuff out of the way (for blogging) I'll move on to good stuff.

In less than a week we are meeting with our SW to go through the bulletin and hopefully find some children that we may be able to adopt.  We're so ready.  Our oldest asks almost daily when we're going to bring home another brother and a couple of sisters for him and his little brother.  It's so hard to keep telling him that we don't know and that we just have to trust that God will bring them to us when it's the right time.  Our son is awesome!  He just tells me, 'that's right Mum.  When God decides it's time, then it's time and we'll just go get them!'

I'm really happy too that in less than a week we start our regular adoption support group meetings again for the year.  I miss our group through winter break.  Even though I saw most of them at our Christmas party.  That was a fun time.  Watching all of our kids playing together and the grown ups playing like children.  What a sight to behold!

Even with the financial strain we're feeling right now (yes that comes under the not so good category) I wish there was time for hubby and I to go out for our date night.  We have the sweetest little babysitter that comes in when we're just doing a date night.  She's 13 and so very awesome with our boys.  She just adores them.  It's also wonderful that when she's here both boys are so tuckered out from playing with her that they sleep soundly through the night and sleep in the next day!  Have I mentioned that I absolutely love our Jenny?!  (Jenny if you're reading this tell your Mum and Dad that I think they're awesome parents for having raised such a wonderful daughter!)
Soon we'll have you over again and then everyone will be happy!

Monday is usually my favorite day of the week.  I've mentioned that before in a previous post.  But yesterday was NOT my favorite day.  My oldest decided that he was not letting go of last week and carried it over to yesterday.  Today has been better but tomorrow will be better still.  On Sunday my youngest decided that instead of taking his nap he would redecorate his room!  His choice of artistic material?  You got it!  Rather, he got it...EVERYWHERE!  On the walls, on the heat register, all over his dresser, his door, carpeting covered, bed, bedding, stuffies, toys...you name it he painted it!  What a joy that was!  It took 3 adults to get his room back in order.  But it's done now and we move forward.  Nothing left to do but laugh it off!  Oh he was a very proud artist!

So there you have my first week and a bit of the new year.  Hope yours is going better! 

Remember, when life hands you lemons, just say pass the salt and the tequila!  (OK OK anyone who knows me knows I don't drink, so go ahead and set up a lemon-aid stand instead. ;))