Excitement is in the air

We are getting really excited to be done with all this preliminary work and be approved so we can go visit our kids and then bring them home. My last class is this weekend and Sean's will be on the 16th. I have to go get my TB test done tomorrow and read on Friday. ya, one more thing out of the way. I got the physical part done already. Sean had to have one for school, so his is all done, he just needs to go get the paper filled out. The "homework" we have to do for each class is kind of annoying but I guess they want to make sure you are paying attention and really thinking hard about what you are about to do. We have kids in mind that we want and we check on a daily basis to make sure they are still there. We really hope we can get them cause those are the ones that we are drawn to and think they should be ours. We got an offer the other day for a free set of really nice bunk beds. so now all we need to do is get a trundle/day bed for the girls in the basement and we are set! We will probably be painting the 2 rooms before we move in all the furniture. I will also never ever be able to use my garage for a car. It was a goal of mine, but I think that ship has sailed. We are totally going to need that space for some kind of storage. I've also been thinking about ways to make the space in the closets more usable. They aren't very wide, but they are 3 feet deep, and most of the space in the back gets wasted. Never realized how many details there were to getting our house ready for some boys. crazy.

Encouragement?

Third training meeting down, 1 more to go. At least for me, Sean has 2 more. Then the home visit, then approval!! I think I've written on here before that I coach our young women at church for the annual basketball tournament. Over here in the eastern part of the US we don't have regional basketball tourney's like they do in Utah & Idaho :) Anyway, I've missed two practices and last week I let them know that I would be missing this Saturday as well and I told them why. So yesterday at church I had several people come up to me and say, "Rumor has it, you are adopting kids." Why yes we are, that's the plan anyway. And their immediate response, at least from two people was, "you know those kids are damaged, right?" WHAT??!!! What does that have to do with the price of rice in China? Seriously, we are looking to adopt kids who might not normally have a chance at having a "forever" family and you tell me they are damaged?! what the hell? Yes these kids will have issues, but don't your kids? My kids probably won't have the same issues as yours will, but we are being given tools to deal with them. Yes, we are going to be getting more than one at once, we will figure out how to deal with that too, but you've had lots of time to deal with all your kids and they still have issues. And who knows why they are in the system. What if they just had the misfortune of both of their loving parents dying in a car accident and they don't have any family left. Yes, they will have to deal with the grief of losing both their parents at one time, but that doesn't mean they can't love and be loved. Sometimes people annoy me. Luckily I know when to hold a grudge (my sisters can tell you I'm really good at that) and when to just shake my head and think, "they have no clue," and brush it off as total ignorance. Yes my kids are going to have issues, but we will deal with them in the same way that you deal with your kids issues. Find something else positive to say please, thanks.