SRP Court Today

Court today was postponed until March 5th BUT...

There are no family visits for the next month plus. GREAT news.

Bio Dad is not allowed to contact us any more. GREAT news.

A Guardian Ad Lidem needs to be appointed and present at the March 5th hearing. GREAT news.

Keep the prayers coming. This is far from over but seemingly moving in the right direction!

What is Worse than Vaseline??

Many of you will remember a certain scrap book weekend in which my husband called to tell me that something bad had happened. Remember? The kids, only Cole and Lexi at the time, had gotten into the diaper cabinet and spread Vaseline all over the house.

The next bad "spill" was a 5 gallon paint bucket. You have to remember that?? We were doing the addition at our other home and Tim had left the paint bucket on the living room carpet where he had been showing me a color sample. Cole and Lexi decided to use Daddy's work shoe to "paint" the surrounding area and themselves. Good times!

Well, this one is about that good. Want to know, don't you??

KARO SYRUP!!! YUP... Celia had left her backpack downstairs and the tots decided to get into it while I was outside washing the car. (She had Karo syrup in there for a science project.) Dad stepped out to help me with a few last details and at the time, I thought to myself," I don't know that it is a good idea that Dad left the kids in there alone." Well, turns out that my every instinct was right.

I walked into Abby with an empty, but quite sticky bottle pressed against the water dispenser on the fridge. Karo in her hair, in Cole's hair, and Lexi's too. There were 2 big puddles of this intensly sticky goo on the carpet as well as many invisible spots later to found as crunchy spots under ones bare feet when walking on the carpet. ANd yes, this is AFTER the spot cleaning and a thurough carpet shampooing. We all know that this sugary substance will be a magnet for every dirt that one didn't even know existed in my house, and ordinary dirts alike. I continue to spot clean and the fibers crunch below my feet but still have not gotten them all nearly a full week later.

So what is worse than Vaseline? Paint.

And what is worse than paint? Karo.

I should invite the school here to complete the science experiment that was once intended to be in Celia's science class.

Great Few Days

The last few days have been SO PLEASANT. Everyone in the house has been so upbeat, happy, and uptimistic. It really helps to have fun when everyone is in a great mood... sounds like common sense, but it is easy to forget when typically atleast one of our children is either moody or just plain down.

We went to see Bolt at the theatre yesterday. It was awesome. No really, really good! We all had our laughs and enjoyed the completely original plot. It was like "Lassie Meets the Truman Show". Clever, and fun. Lexi was so proud of herself sitting with the kidpack that Daddie got her. She took the whole movie just to eat the little baggie of gummies that came with it but found great pride in putting her cup in the real cup holder and sitting behind a bag of popcorn. I put up the armrest and pulled her close to me. She looked at me like I was crazy and then put it back down and sat normal, as if to say" that is NOT how the big kids do it." Super cute!

Then Lolo and Papa came over for dinner and rocked out to Rockband with the fam. Super good times.

Today we had Anna and Rainy and Laurie over to watch the Cardinals WIN!!! That was awesome. Anyway, we have been working out as a family and having fun and just enjoying each other. I never thought I would say this, especially at the start of winter break, but I almost don't want it to end. We have really been having fun. The house is a real mess. The laundry is behind. But what has mattered most has happened and that was family fun. We got to see people we love. We got to play games, watch movies, eat fun food, and celebrate Christ. What more could a person ask for??