Family Fun: August

Tuesday, October 3, 2017

Now that summer has ended I'm shifting back to a monthly family recap. Our lives are just not as exciting during the school year so I can't really justify a weekly post! The big news this month was the Eclipse. At first I went from "who cares" to "omg it's scary" to "wow this is gonna be cool." I ended up getting glasses and I'm SO GLAD that I did! I heard from many friends locally that because of the amount we were able to see that many of the diy things didn't work. The glasses worked great ! It was so funny when you put the glasses on it was COMPLETELY DARK. So many of these exact pics flooded social media that day haha Zach ended up being home for it. Our visual time fell during naps. The older kids had a half day so they got home and watched it but Tess slept through it. This is what it looked like through the glasses, at least the best I could get with a picture. But it was REALLY AWE...

17 Months Waiting (AKA The Month We Met Mama E)

Monday, October 2, 2017

Labels: adoption / adoption monthly summary / ultrasound

This post covers August 30th through September 29th...our 17th month into this process and a very special month :) Please visit our Adoption Page to catch up on our journey! Thanks again to Lemon Treehouse for our "in waiting" cards Things Learned and Accomplished This Month: It was a very, very exciting month for our family! While it's easy to get caught up in the baby news, I had to also make sure to complete our home study stuff too so it could be renewed. I had several people say "Oh yay! You're matched so no home study right?" Nope. Home study has to be current and up to date at the time of placement. I'm not sure if it has to remain current for finalization or not? But either way we should be good with this being our last renewal of the home study! Yay! August was a month of major downs followed by MAJOR ups for us. After the first week in August when we had 3 "nos" in a row I was really, really down. And when I...

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