Welcome to our home Mrs. Mackey!

Today we met with Brittany's adoption case worker Mrs. Mackey! She is super nice! She called to make sure the house with the giant rope on the fence and hidden in the woods was the right one. Yes it is us! Everyone calls to ask this. I guess our house kinda looks "hidden for a reason" scary or something.

So anyways she pulls in and looks at our yard in a kinda shock when I explain how a giant tree, which the roots and stump is now burning about 3 ft from where half the porch is still standing, fell on the house and took out the rest of the porch with it. She didn't seem to mind too much as far as CPS is concerned but came in and tried to take off her shoes, this is always a polite gesture when someone comes over, I told her she didn't need to do all that!

We sat at the table where Brittany continued to charm her and eat her cherrios and drink her juice and look cute and repetively say the word "No" like she has been saying over the past 3 weeks to anything and everything we ask or tell her. She I am afraid is becoming ...what do people call it? "Spoiled?" yes well this word descrives her perfectly. I read it a book that its just a phase but dear God if it lasts too much longer Momma's gonna snap. lol

We explain to her that we want to wait until her 2nd birthday to finalize so she can receive her benefits and she tells us how to drag it out and it would be no problem. She will just make monthly visits until April. Then in April we will sign the adoption paperwork and file with the state for her subsidy. Once that comes back we should finalize around June. SWEET! She says it works out good cause the holidays is a good excuse and once thats over we still need to do a developmental analyses just to make sure "what we are adopting" lol. She said to wait awhile to do it so she will have an excuse why her "case load is not empty". She said since we are with DDC these things usually are so quick but legally we wouldn't have been able to sign those papers until Jan 15th when she had been in our home for 6 months. So I am happy our worker is on board and she is such a sweet and informative woman. Brittany had to go to the potty which Jeff took her while she pooped in the potty and made a fit because she didn't want no help with her big girl panties and me and Mrs Mackey stood outside the bathroom talking about other families and donations and the holidays and Brittany's second bedroom. LOL!!! We cleaned out our 3rd bedroom this weekend and made it a play room. Spoiled???? maybe.

Then she said once we finalize in June we can immediantly start on placement #2!!! I think by then Brittany will be almost 2 1/2 and with the amount of time waiting for a placement to begin with, June should be a good time to open our house back up to the possibility.

Hey there, what's going on?

So Brittany's brand new CPS adoption worker just called!!!! YAY! She sat up a time to come out to our home Monday at 9 am!

I am a bit nervous about the yard! I mean the place is a freaking train wreck, I am worried she is gonna be all, "There was no note in Brittany's file about your yard looking like SHIT!" But they should understand its because of the hurricane...right?

Her last CPS worker NEVER came out to the house and quite frankly bearly came at all, but the last 2 times she did it was to Brittany's daycare! She never asked if we had any damage from the storm so we never told her. Our clincian knows and has been out! She wasn't too worried and understood, but then again she is kinda of whatever about allot of things.

I have soooo many questions to ask her, I have no idea what to look forward to from here! I guess we will know soon enough.

Also the previous foster dad emailed me to invite us to his foster daughters birthday at the end of the month. I politely declined. I think it's too early for Brittany to see him and although we ran into the foster mom at Renfest and Brittany did not recognize her, I think there was more of a parental relationship with the foster dad.

I am going to check the forecast now and make sure I shouldn't reschedule, I would hate for the new CPS worker to have to wear rain boots to get to the house on her first visit! LOL

Brittany's Twinn doll!

So I ordered Brittany this Twinn Doll online. You get to pick the face shape and eye and hair color and hair type and length to make it look like your child's twin and it came in the mail today at work and it is soooo freaking cool!



This doll looks just like Brittany! She is going to love it!




Look how chunky she is! heh heh......

Present Events

So here I am posting about Christmas and puppies and Elmos when everyone else is talking about our economy and what's going on around us. I just figure it's gonna work out the way it's supposed to. That may sound a bit chillaxed, or lazy or passive or whatever you want to label it. I like to think of it a bit as fate if you will. There is this thing most people refer to as The Bible. And in this Bible there is a book called Revelation, it speaks about the end times and things coming to pass and such. Now allot, and I mean quite a few people have recognized Obama fitting the profile to be the "anti-christ". What I say about this is, bravo for recognizing what you decern to be the truth but judging me for not going out ot vote for McCain doesn't mean myself and other's like me single handedly put the anti-christ in office. Logically you would think if this was already in the bible, there wasn't a thing me nor you could have done about it. Silly thing to get mad over the wrong things now isn't it? Boy I just talked a world of circles.

Just wanted to point out the obvious.

Friends Til The End

Okay so if Chucky was going to come back in 2009, then he would totally be reincarnated into this Emlo Doll. Have you seen this thing? He is the Elmo Live and it absolutely realistically scary real. We got him for Christmas for Brittany and I can't shut up about him. I just had to post a pic. We also got the Elmo Chatters that is just freaking funny. Find one next time you go to Target or Wal Mart. He is addictive.



So here is Brittany's new room I repainted! Isn't it beautiful?




Here is the bed Adell made that I repainted to match the room. It's so cottage cute! I need to find some new safety rails, those are kinda temp.

Mocker Socker Ghoulies

Here they are....Mocky's four beautiful babies! Two black females, one fawn male and one black male. They are sooo cute with their eyes open! They are only 3 weeks old but are already started to play.



Wake up little babies!

Humpty Dumpty is back Together Again! YAY!

The outside totally still looks like shit but hey at least there
is no longer a giant hole in the corner of my house! Can you tell that
half the porch has been ripped off? We are starting on that hopefully as soon as we can
get some freaking help out here!



My room! FINALLY get to sleep in my bed back in my room!





YAY!





The Ghoulies totally dig the new carpet! The carpet is so beautiful!
Much nicer then the kind we had in the room before! It's so soft I could have
basically slept on it last night. Yesterday was the first day back in our room
and me and Jeff haven't slep that good in 2 months.