On the one hand being in bed at 10:00 on a Saturday morning is great. I do love to sleep in! However, I would trade it in a heartbeat to have my little ones waking me up at the crack of dawn to make them breakfast and play all day in this beautiful weather. It is extremely frustrating because I am out of stuff to do to prepare for my babies coming home. Everything else that needs to be done can't be done until we know more about them.
We have held off on making long term plans. It doesn't seem right. We don't want to plan ahead of fun things when we would rather just be spending that time at home bonding with our kids. I feel like I should be doing the opposite. I should continue to make plans and then get excited if I have to cancel them because my kids arrive.
Tomorrow morning we will wait around for the delivery of our new oven. Sometime this week they should be delivering and installing the rest of our appliances. I suppose that is something to look forward to. I have not been able to cook in an oven since November. I am glad we finally made a decision and purchased something. Tomorrow night we are having Papa Murphy's pizza for dinner for sure!
So far we still do not have our home study even scheduled. I really had hoped that they would at the very least call to schedule that this week. So far nothing. I will contact our FAD worker Monday and check in. I also plan on talking to her about respite care. That would allow us to care for other people's kids until our get here.
In the end it will all be worth it. Until then it is a pretty lonely place around here. I am just trying to find ways to keep myself occupied. This weekend I am doing that by spending time with my sister. She came to stay a few days. Her job allows her one day a year to volunteer. She offered to use that day to help me in the library. She was able to shelve ALL of our books. If you are a librarian with no parent volunteers you know how huge this is! She was also able to finish scanning the everybody books, graphic novels, and magazines for inventory. The bonus was having someone to eat lunch with and go to the mall with.
The other big weekend event was that we finally set up our IRA. I suppose now I am really an adult. I know we should have already started it but better late than never. Hopefully between out TRS accounts and our IRA we won't be too broke when we retire. That is just 23 years away!
I suppose at some point I should get up and shower and be productive today. I don't think staying in bed and farting around on the internet is the best use of my time. Moping around won't bring my babies home any sooner.
We have held off on making long term plans. It doesn't seem right. We don't want to plan ahead of fun things when we would rather just be spending that time at home bonding with our kids. I feel like I should be doing the opposite. I should continue to make plans and then get excited if I have to cancel them because my kids arrive.
Tomorrow morning we will wait around for the delivery of our new oven. Sometime this week they should be delivering and installing the rest of our appliances. I suppose that is something to look forward to. I have not been able to cook in an oven since November. I am glad we finally made a decision and purchased something. Tomorrow night we are having Papa Murphy's pizza for dinner for sure!
So far we still do not have our home study even scheduled. I really had hoped that they would at the very least call to schedule that this week. So far nothing. I will contact our FAD worker Monday and check in. I also plan on talking to her about respite care. That would allow us to care for other people's kids until our get here.
In the end it will all be worth it. Until then it is a pretty lonely place around here. I am just trying to find ways to keep myself occupied. This weekend I am doing that by spending time with my sister. She came to stay a few days. Her job allows her one day a year to volunteer. She offered to use that day to help me in the library. She was able to shelve ALL of our books. If you are a librarian with no parent volunteers you know how huge this is! She was also able to finish scanning the everybody books, graphic novels, and magazines for inventory. The bonus was having someone to eat lunch with and go to the mall with.
The other big weekend event was that we finally set up our IRA. I suppose now I am really an adult. I know we should have already started it but better late than never. Hopefully between out TRS accounts and our IRA we won't be too broke when we retire. That is just 23 years away!
I suppose at some point I should get up and shower and be productive today. I don't think staying in bed and farting around on the internet is the best use of my time. Moping around won't bring my babies home any sooner.
