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Hello to every one!
How is everyone? It has been awhile since anyone posted! I am wondering how your families are doing, those of you who have recently adopted, how are your kids handling things? I was curios as to what sort of issues you all are facing day to day and what you are doing to help your children over come those issues. I am always looking for new ideas and plans to help with my children, those I have now and the ones I will have later. It is neat to see how things are going for others in similar situations. To those of you waiting and looking in to adoption what new news do you have, how are your home studies going? Any one have anything in the process surprise them?
My story is coming along slow but sure. We have had 2 meetings with our worker and are working on getting all our necessary paper work in.
We had our worker over, I knew from reading that they wanted to see if the home is suitable and some said that they didn’t look around much. We, like most, wanted to clean up a bit anyways. I set aside a week before she was to come, to do a few tasks I wanted to get done, with 2 little ones I knew a quick pick up before she walked in wasn’t going to accomplish all that I wanted. Monday we were going to get the yard work out of the way, so we mowed and weeded, and then I was going to try and scrub the crayon off my sons room which other than that was fine, unfortunately there was so much I would have had to use about 6 packs of magic eraser which did work, slowly, but surely, my hubby came up to see how it was coming and commented on how by our sons bed there were sheets of wall paper loose. He had just torn up a whole section of paper and I was too busy scrubbing to see it happen! It looked so tacky and it was ripped so we couldn’t glue it back on. DH said we could peel it all off since it seemed to come off in sheets and just paint the wall. So, we started what in the end, took until Thursday. Working morning until night every day. The FIRST layer of paper came off in a breeze only to discover bright blue, super glued on, paper, underneath! 3 days of soaking and scraping, we finally got that off and then we stayed up all night painting the room! What a wreck I was when it was all over! It is a good thing that I usually keep things in order around here of we would have had a disaster by Friday! There was dust every where after sanding and scraping the wall. In the end it all worked out fine. Our worker came and she looked every where opened all the doors looked around our yard ask what we use every room for and who does what where. It was an interesting experience. I am glad though, that she was looking into things so much, I think I would be worried it she didn’t.
Now all we have to do is a few more meetings and some more paper work and we are all set to wait. Well I wrote a book so I will stop now but please if anyone has any stories I would love to read them!
LH
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