Note to self.....

......remember that the kitchen and bathroom cabinets have childproof latches on them!


Geez! I can't even tell you how many times Michael & I have tried to open a cabinet to be stopped dead in our tracks. Proof that the latches do indeed work :)

Assigned!

My phone rang at 8:12pm from a (713) number and low & behold, it was our agency director! She was calling to let us know that our case worker has been assigned and that they are scheduled to meet to discuss our case/file on Thursday. The caseworker will then contact us Friday or Monday to schedule our home study! WHOA!

Won't you please be praying for the Lord to work in the hearts of the director and the caseworker during their meeting and especially when we meet with the caseworker for our homestudy. We really appreciate it.

We're a little apprehensive about this but we know that the Lord is in control and He will give us His perfect peace through the rest of the process. We'll keep you posted!

Childproofing party!

That's right! We had a big childproofing party for 2 at our house on Friday night....we opened up all the windows (yay for fall weather this past week in Houston!), turned on the music in every room, gathered up the drill, screwdriver, screws, hammer, cabinet & drawer latches, mouting tape, pencil, measuring tape and partied down! Doesn't that sound like your kind of party?! Well, it wasn't so much that it was fun, but we had to approach it like it would be to be motivated to get it all done. Now, some of you might be wondering what childproofing was left to be done, thinking that it had been completed months ago. WELL.....one cabinet was completed a few months ago and we've been procrastinating ever since. However, Friday night was THE night to get everything done in the house.

Here's what we were able to accomplish on Friday night/Saturday morning: safety latches installed on all 18 cabinets, all ceiling fans were cleaned, all air filters were finally changed (now that we're not using the A/C ~ ha!), broken toilet fixed, kitchen cabinets cleaned out to make room for the re-arrangement of all the cleaners normally found under the kitchen/bathroom sinks (products can't be left under the sink under the State of Texas rules, closet in nursery was cleaned out, bookshelf and all it's contents were sorted through, cleaned out and moved into another room, and 5 loads of laundry washed, dried, sorted and put away!

Michael & I finally retired to our bed around 2am....it was a full evening indeed. But do you know how wonderful it was to wake up Saturday morning and have everything on your list marked off? PRICELESS! I was able to spend Saturday morning with the girls at their gymnastics class, as well as go shopping & out to lunch with them. Then Michael & I were actually able to watch both of the movies that we rented for the weekend! Yesterday was a great day of relaxing, watching football & BBQing.

One last thing...we received word from our agency that our caseworker is to be assigned to us by tomorrow (Tuesday).....just 4 weeks late, but better late than later. Hopefully, we will actually be given the name of our caseworker tomorrow. We're praying for just the right caseworker to be assigned to us, as this person really makes the final decision in the approval process. Won't you be praying for us? We'll keep you posted on the status of our homestudy, as soon as we hear something. Hopefully, it will be soon!

24 pages later....

and dare I say it, our last paperwork has been completed and forwarded to the agency for review. This was all that was needed to complete our file and to be assigned a case worker for our homestudy. We have been told that we SHOULD get a caseworker assigned to us in the next 2 weeks, but we're doubtful that it will actually be that soon.

We still have to complete childproofing the kitchen cabinets....this is probably one of the few times that I've procrastinated on a project. It's so time consuming and frustrating! But we just need to get it done.

We'll keep you posted with an update as soon as we hear anything. Thanks for your prayers!