closer...closer...closer...still waiting

There is nothing new to report. At all. Well maybe some new stuff. We got all the mattresses in, and sheets for everything. We actually found some inexpensive mattresses that weren't awful & they delivered them for free. We got a comforter set for the day bed that makes it look like a couch. It's a great place to read, Sean and I have already tried it out. The sad thing is that we have to keep a layer of plastic over it so the stupid cats, that like to throw up on everything, don't get it all yucky. The girls have even tried it out while they were here. They seem to like it. For them it's a great place to hide from us. At the moment we are waiting for a reply from the case worker in the state were our kids are. Or at least the kids we want are. We are really hoping that we can go get them and bring them home. sigh, but we wait.

Getting ready......to wait

Yesterday Sean and I went to Home Depot and got the plywood for the 2 bunk beds in the "blue room." 1 more thing on our list of stuff that needs done that has been completed. Sean also spent the day putting together the day bed for the girls. That stupid thing takes up half our basement! It is bigger that I planned, but eh, what can we do? We'll make it work. Now I just have to figure out where to put my huge steamer trunk. Might have to go up in the attic for a while, like until we move and get a bigger house. We also did our research on mattresses. sigh, what a pain. We need 4 of them, so we would like to get something inexpensive, but has anyone laid of those cheap mattresses. yikes!! You could get tetanus from the springs poking you. seriously. anyway. We found a couple that were okay and won't break the bank, but we didn't get them, since it was pouring down rain and we will need to transport them ourselves. Still no word on any kids. We've put our profile out there for quite a few groups, but no bites yet. We are hoping that we will get a call this summer. so we are waiting. me, not so patiently :)

in the blink of an eye....

Sean and I went to DC last weekend to celebrate our 8th wedding anniversary. Can't believe it's been 8 years, I feel like we just got married last summer. I guess that is a good thing. Our trip was not as fun & uneventful as we had planned. I booked the hotel online on Hotwire.com a week before we went. We left at 8am, after dropping the dog off at a friends. Then we headed to the temple, no traffic problems, no construction problems, nothing. Got there, did a session, did some sealings, had such a nice peaceful time. Then we went to the hotel. I have this thing with hotels... I don't trust them. Not sure why, might be from when I coached basketball, I NEVER park the car until I know we have a room. Sean doesn't know my rule. Well, he didn't, he does now :) The parking lot of the hotel was a madhouse. I went in and told Sean to stay with the car. He parked it in a parking garage that charges by the minute. grrrrr. I went in to check in, they were overbooked and didn't have a room... grrrrrrrrr. So they said that they would give our money back & give us a voucher to stay in another hotel in the area that was on par with the Hyatt. I'm thinking, ok, whatever, as long as we have a bed. We go back to the car, try to leave and they want 6 bucks for 10 minutes of parking. HA, not gonna happen. I'm driving and Sean is in the passenger seat yell  talking loudly to the guy in the booth. But I have to say, Sean had a point, they didn't have a room, we weren't paying for parking! And if they would have had a room we wouldn't have had to pay for parking anyway. If I would have known he was going to park, I would have talked to the desk so that whole scene could have been avoided. Anyway. We head to the new hotel, check in, and head to our room. yyeeaaaaa. We open the door and both of us just stand there.... it's got a DOUBLE bed. And since Sean and I are such small people at over 6' tall...... And of course my battery died in the camera so I couldn't even take a picture to show the minuteness. There was only enough room on each side of the bed to walk. At the end of the bed, same thing,  there was a space big enough to walk through and then the dresser with the TV on top of it. And then the bathroom. I think the room was maybe 10' x10' and that included the bathroom. So we dropped the bags, headed back to the front desk, told them the problem, and got nowhere. They told us that the Hyatt hadn't called them about what rooms where available and the one that we got is one that they usually give to single business people or to employees that have to stay on site for some reason. fun, I tell ya. The girl at the front desk told us she would call around and see if there was anything available while we went out to dinner with the nieces and nephew. When we got back...nothing. It seems that DC is a super busy place on Memorial Day weekend and rooms are hard to find. Well, now we know!
Another eye opening/blinking moment was a call we got on Friday before we were supposed to leave. Sean and I have been kind of lollygagging in the painting, setting up the rooms department. We've been thinking that we'd get to it eventually, we have time.....blah, blah, blag. Lazy is probably a better word :) So we got a phone call on Friday asking if we wanted to come pick up 2 girls, ages 2 & 6.....like NOW. Needless to say after praying about it, Sean and I felt that those girls were not our children and we didn't go get them. BUT, it opened our eyes to the fact that we could get a call any day and have to come pick up our kids. yikes! We were not prepared. So when we returned on Sunday we put the first coat of paint on the other room and on Monday I put the second coat on. All painted and reset. So now all we need is 4 mattresses to go on the new beds we have. We also have to put up the day/trundle bed, but we can do that some evening, since there aren't any more new shoes until September. We are hoping that by next week we will have all that done. I was able to empty some space out of the closets by getting rid of a bunch of stuff I was hoarding in the garage. I finally got sick enough of it sitting there that I took it to the Goodwill. Then I went to Target and bought metal shelves and 4 Rubbermaid containers. Hmm, I need a photo of that. The garage is now nice & neat and I was able to move stuff from the closets out to the shelf in the garage, mostly the space bags full of winter clothes. I'll need another shelf & more containers, but for now what I have works. Our first priority is some beds, then it's onto my obsessive organizing :) Hopefully this means soon we will have a houseful of kids. We can hope, right?!