It is very possible that I will be re-using this title again and again.
Tonight I took the kids up to PA because the high schoolers had their spring play "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown" BTW....the actors were good, but man is that a pretty bad play.....
Jake and Ryan were pretty well behaved. They enjoyed seeing the older kids up there on stage. L and L were another story. Mainly Luke. He squirmed and just would not be still. I think he was ticked that everyone wasn't looking at him and clapping for him. Laine watched it mostly and only got a bit restl towards the end. I loved looking at her as she sat in that big chair with her ankles crossed and looked up intently at the stage. I could almost see the stars in her eyes!
It is hard going anywhere with them now that they are PT. They want to go like every 30 min. They just enjoy public restrooms really. Oh and Luke has to strip his pants and his underwear completely off. What a PITA.
I just keep trying to remember that by the time we have Baby Smoosh that they will be so much better and easier and be able to do more for themselves. I may just be kidding myself but it is working for me now, okay?
Thursday, May 5, 2005
Tuesday, May 3, 2005
Short Version of the Paperchase
Ok I am a lamo and I have not written at all about the paperchase part of this adoption process. The truth is it is just not very exciting. You see it is just a bunch of paperwork and red tape. Honestly it is tedious and boring, not too much diary material.
Now though I am regretting not at least writing down what steps we did when, how the homestudy went and when we were fingerprinted etc etc blah blah blah. But I am not going to wallow in the regret too much because...................da da da....IT IS ALL DONE!!!
[this was going to be a short post about how we are now done with the paperwork, but I got a bit sidetracked] Yes, that is right, we finished the paperchase in what I am sure is record time. We are lucky because we have never been married before or had bizzare name changes or criminal histories..uh oh.... I mean I have no criminal history. L on the other hand has quite the rap sheet we discovered.
***** County government has a memory like an elephant. We had to request all the court findings and records bearing his name because he had a hazy and vauge memory of being written a ticket for underage possesion. The record we got has about 4 things on it though! It even included traffic violations from when he was 16! Whew!
No arrests though, right? Just some tickets, right?
Right?
uh uh.
My sweet husband is actually a felon! He was wanted in the state of Florida for skipping out on probabtion. He was leading a double life. However, it is all in the open now. It is with great shame that I reveal to the cyber world that my husband L was arrested at the age of 19 (nineteen, y'all for heaven's sake!) for shoplifitng a shark tooth necklace ( 2.99$) from Alvin's Island in Destin, Fl. Oh and if you are ever there shopping for trinkets and cheesy souveniers and you see him, please do not tell the manager because as part of his sentencing he was banned from Alvin's for life. I will let L be the one to explain the lurid and sordid details of his criminal past. Please, just don't ask him in the middle of the store.
Unbelieveably, the United States still saw fit to grant us the much coveted I171H which is our Official Permission to Adopt a Foreign Orphan. Halleluia!
Finally all of our paperwork,including 12 pictures of 'family life', is at our agency in Denver (Chinese Children Adoption International) and it is currently being translated and will be mailed to China next week.
Now though I am regretting not at least writing down what steps we did when, how the homestudy went and when we were fingerprinted etc etc blah blah blah. But I am not going to wallow in the regret too much because...................da da da....IT IS ALL DONE!!!
[this was going to be a short post about how we are now done with the paperwork, but I got a bit sidetracked] Yes, that is right, we finished the paperchase in what I am sure is record time. We are lucky because we have never been married before or had bizzare name changes or criminal histories..uh oh.... I mean I have no criminal history. L on the other hand has quite the rap sheet we discovered.
***** County government has a memory like an elephant. We had to request all the court findings and records bearing his name because he had a hazy and vauge memory of being written a ticket for underage possesion. The record we got has about 4 things on it though! It even included traffic violations from when he was 16! Whew!
No arrests though, right? Just some tickets, right?
Right?
uh uh.
My sweet husband is actually a felon! He was wanted in the state of Florida for skipping out on probabtion. He was leading a double life. However, it is all in the open now. It is with great shame that I reveal to the cyber world that my husband L was arrested at the age of 19 (nineteen, y'all for heaven's sake!) for shoplifitng a shark tooth necklace ( 2.99$) from Alvin's Island in Destin, Fl. Oh and if you are ever there shopping for trinkets and cheesy souveniers and you see him, please do not tell the manager because as part of his sentencing he was banned from Alvin's for life. I will let L be the one to explain the lurid and sordid details of his criminal past. Please, just don't ask him in the middle of the store.
Unbelieveably, the United States still saw fit to grant us the much coveted I171H which is our Official Permission to Adopt a Foreign Orphan. Halleluia!
Finally all of our paperwork,including 12 pictures of 'family life', is at our agency in Denver (Chinese Children Adoption International) and it is currently being translated and will be mailed to China next week.
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