Monday, November 17, 2008

The past two week seem to have been crazily busy and just flew by. We had teacher conferences, board meetings, organizational meeting and Tae Kwon Do practice twice a week now for Samuel. Steven is done with Soccer for now until he starts up with Golf again in late March. Garry is trying to finish up his finals in his classes and of to the next set before hopefully in spring he will get this degree wrapped up.

And with the upcoming holiday season I am afraid that the schedule will not let off for a while either as we have xmass committee meetings, more board meetings, xmass programs and getting ready for the Holidays ourselves.

Oh yea that’s right Thanksgiving in two weeks……yikes… I could use another month or so in between.

But hey on the very exciting positive side our Homestudy passed its reviews with the China Agency and we received our certified copy yesterday so on to the so dreaded I800A, so at this point we will definitely need that DTC extension but yet one step closer to bringing Shawn home.

Sunday, November 2, 2008

We spend the last weeks carving our pumpkings, prepping the yard and garden for winter and the kids fighting off colds already. In about another week we are all to go into the doc to get a Flu shot, yes all of us including me for the first time ever. Not sure yet how I will get past that needle issue but it needs to be done.

The kids had a ton of fun when we where carving pumpkins Sarah dug right in as usual and it was her brother Samuel that was not a big fan of the goop digging part. We ended up with 4 big pumpkins sitting in front of the fireplace and they lasted well till this weekend and found their home now on our compost.

The kids had two days off and we all got lucky that Halloween was such a nice day for all of us and we did not have to bundle the kids up to much. We only went out for a short period of time since the hours to trick or treat are limited. Next year I think we need to take a half day off and get out right away as we live outside of town and drive into town to make our rounds. The nice thing is Mom and Dad both get to go trick or treat since we don’t have to worry about anybody coming out here to our house. No neighbors no trick or treaties