Waiting for Homestudy

We mailed in Chris' health form to our homestudy agency last Friday, so hopefully will have our updated homestudy soon. We will have to mail this with a request for an extension on our I171h to USCIS and then we continue to wait.

Suggestions on a verse for our kitchen?

Place your vote here on what verse you think we should put in our kitchen! Hubby and i can't agree on one. He thinks it should have the words food/eat in it, I on the other hand want something to do with hospitality/family/love for God. So place your votes and maybe it will find its place on my kitchen wall.

Caroline 1st day of school

Caroline lost her 1st tooth
1st day of school at North Hills Classical Academy!

Cant seem to rotate these pictures! Caroline is loving her new school, she has 2 other girls in her class and 3 boys. She hasn't had any homework yet which is amazing. She talks about having 2 recesses and snack time when we ask her about her day! She is learning Latin chants and doing the usual 1st grade stuff. I am so glad she is enjoying it, as she says she doesn't have any friends yet! Her first day I introduced her to another girl in her class hoping they would feel comfortable to talk to one another later.

Cathryn has been doing homeschooling with me. So far so good. She is reading Caroline's books from Kindergarten which is great! We studied china and ducks yesterday. We are reading the book The Story about Ping. He is a duck in China. We also looked at what thinks float and what sinks for science. It was fun and she enjoys our one on one time together. We then went to the gym and daddy had the day off so they went swimming when I did an aerobics class. Enjoying the schedule, got a run and take Cathryn to gymnastics.

Finally done with our kitchen, just need new curtains and an area rug. I love my kitchen now.

New kitchen picture
Windows in eating area

new cabinets installed

old cabinets we removed and replace with above ones in the eating area

Old kitchen before picture

Waiting 8 months

Tomorrow will be September 6 which means that we have been waiting for 8 months now, since being registered in Bulgaria. As we wait we are keeping busy with house projects. We are in the process of painting our kitchen (blue) and cabinets (cream with a glaze). A couple of months ago we moved Caroline into the guestroom and made it hers with a newly painted red dresser, red desk, and canopy over her bed. Calvin's room is waiting for curtains and a blue rug (this will be our next project after Christmas probably). We also put up the last 4 doors that we bought a few years back.

While we wait, we pray for you my sweet little boy. We pray for your protection until you come home to us. While we wait, we worship our heavenly Father and serve Him. Trying to wait patiently, faithfully.

medical

Chris went and had his yearly physical for our homestudy last week Wednesday. His doctor had misplaced (lost) the form that needed to be filled out for our adoption agency. I had our social worker send us another one and Chris took it Tuesday to be filled out. Guess what, they still haven't done it for him. Once we get this form he is leaving that doctor's office and switching to mine. They are soo frustrating. Too big to give personal service! This will be the second day he calls to ask for them to fill it out so our social worker can finish our homestudy update.

I am trying to focus on other things such as painting our kitchen. We decided to adopt instead of getting new cabinets, granite countertops etc. So I am going to paint our cupboards, paint the wall and put up some nice curtains instead. I will post before and after pictures.

Caroline starts school next Tuesday, we are getting excited. She has also lost tooth #2, yesterday at her school picnic. Fun times.