Waiting

We have managed to get through all of the visits with the social worker and finding all of the documents that she needs, with the execption of us going to the doctor for a check up. However, we are not going to be able to go pick up our new daughter this weekend as was planned because our criminal background checks have not arrived. Hopefully, these documents will arrive this coming up week so that we can go get her next weekend, Aug. 7th. We have her room all ready for her and we have been able to speak on the phone with her several times. Her mother is a wonderful lady that really just wants the best for this child.

My oldest daughter and her husband are planning to take a mini vacation that same weekend that we are to go pick up our new addition to the family. They are going to Holiday World with some other family members. All of them have an anniversary around that time, so it is their anniversary gift from my in-laws and us. I hope they all have a wonderful time! My daughter didn't get to have a honeymoon, so this is just fantastic that the two of them will get to do something for their anniversary this year.

As for my son, he is disappointed that he isn't getting his new sister here as planned. He is so looking forward to having another child in the household. I just hope he remembers that when the sibling arguements begin....HAHA.

My husband and I are staying quite busy as well. We have had canning and freezing to do, lawn work to do, housework to conquer, getting our new child's room ready for her, and ordering her home school curriculum. We will be using the same curriculum for her that we are using for our son, except geared for her grade.

I do have concerns that I will not be able to teach two children at once, but I managed before. However, at that time, one was in high school and the other in primary school. These two will be grade 3 and 6. I am sure Creator will give me the wisdom, strength, and patience to do this. My son is older, so maybe he can help me with my daughter sometimes. That would be good for all of us and give him a sense of acheivement as well.

Our garden, such as it was, is beginning to die off now, so I don't expect to be doing a lot of food preservation the rest of this fall. We do hope to run across more vegetables from local farmers to put up for the winter. Hopefully, next year will not be so harsh on the gardens and we will have a better one. Even with us watering and babying the garden each day, it has produced very little according to the time, effort, and money that we put into it this year. Well, Creator knows best and I trust that our harvest from the garden along with the produce purchased from others will carry us through.