The Adoption procedures begin

Well, Last night Adam and I had to attend an adoption orientation meeting. It was about two hours long, and we got to listen to a foster mother explain some of her experiences with us. It was pretty interesting. I believe he and I would have been scared off if we had not already done so much of the research and talked about it so much already. They really focused on the bad things about being a foster parent. I think they were just trying to make sure you were serious and could handle everything. I sometimes feel frustrated that we have to attend the foster stuff, since we don't want to be foster parents. Not really, we want to Adopt a child from foster care. In Nevada though it's all the same process. We have to go to a three day all day training next month out of town. Its 27 hours of training thrown at us in 3 days. Then the real work begins!

So, Jacqueline wanted to watch a movie in their room. I have no idea how to get a movie on in there. You have to do some switching with the VCR and something with the vsmile... I'm not sure, so I asked Alexandra if she could start a movie for her sister. She looked at me and said, "I don't know how to do it, But I will tell Jacqueline" and with that she went off.Jacqueline came in the living room to collect the baby (her baby doll ) and I asked her if she knew how to start the movie she replied "Oh, it's not on yet but I can do it by myself" and she was off. Sure enough about 30 seconds later I heard that THX music from the other room!
SO now it seems I have to ask my 3 year old to teach me how to work there DVD player!

So, I was answering some emails this morning and Jacqueline was sitting on the floor by my "putting her baby to bed" She laid her down, covered her up and told me to "be quite baby was sleeping" She then began to sing to her. She Kept getting stuck on the same part of a song. I then said to her in my whisper, "why don't you sing her you are my sunshine" Her, and I sing that song every night before she goes to bed! She looks at me and says, "I can't that song is not in my IPOD!" She then pushed a "button" on an imaginary box and changed songs to itsy bitsy spider...
She's always good for a chuckle in the morning!

Hi!
OK so it was took longer and was a lot harder to accomplish than I thought it was going to be but...
Today I finally did it. I took my last test. While I don't have that magical little paper in my hands yet (they have to send it to me) I am as of today a High School graduate.

It hit me a lot harder than I thought it was going to also. I thought it was going to be just a cool I did it and that would be that. I am however more proud than I have ever been of myself and I keep fighting back the urge to want to cry! I set out 9 months ago determined to finish what 11 years ago I thought was unimportant-how wrong I was! Even if I never work another day in my life I will never have to look at my kids and be embarrassed that I didn't finish high school. I did all 4 years of high school over this past nine months!


Thanks to everyone who was so encouraging to me and to those who helped me through tough exams or watched the kids so I could study! It truly means a lot to me that so many people were behind me!!