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Way up in the Sky

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:45:02 GMT

This kids song is in my head this morning:

Way up in the sky, the little birds fly.
Way down in the nest, the little birds rest.
With a wing on the left & a wing on the right,
The little bird sleeps all through the night.
Sh!!!! Its sleeping!
The bright sun comes up, the dew hits the trail.
Good morning! Good morning! The little birds wail!

I just can't keep life all sorted out in my head anymore. Its like an internet bandwith issue- too much traffic at once, and everything slows down and packets of data start getting lost. So it is with my brain at the moment. I want a wearable computer where I can start organizing everything going on and then call up the relevant stuff as needed!

Right now, I'm going to pieces wondering what kids we'll get matched with. From our adoption workers attitude, I can see that I won't know anytime soon.

Our lease is coming up on the end of July on our rental house- we still don't have a new copy of it yet. Last year we got our copy in early June! Early on, we were told not to buy or move during the adoption process, but our adoption worker doesn't care and says it is no issue. So I think I'll ask for a month-to-month lease, even though I'm sure she'll charge more and get serious on this house buying thing.

We're almost caught up on finances from our little business experiment, so we just barely have the required 5% downpayment. I've started a separate blog at http://3bed2ba.blogspot.com/ just to keep track of things. I found we were driving by houses and then two days later, looking at their listing again and saying, "Why didn't we like that house?" Hopefully that little blog can help me document the process so that I'm a little less scatter-brained.

Another issue is the impact of moving and adoption on my dayhome. I was really hoping that the adoption placement would happen this summer because that's when all my dayhome kids have the backup and flexibility to take time off. If the house we buy is very far away, I'll have to start over with new children. I'm also kicking around whether or not to only accept part-time kids and take a morning or afternoon off a week for appointments and errands.

So, right now I feel like my whole life is floating around in a hotair balloon and no one knows exactly where it will come down! In the meantime, I'm just trying to enjoy the view the best I can.

Socks

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:27:44 GMT

Photoblog from my family daycare

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 02:04:36 GMT

What my day looks like

Thu, 21 May 2009 15:17:04 GMT

a tiny update

Mon, 11 May 2009 01:18:29 GMT

Saw the New Star Trek. It rocked. I want to be a trekkie now.

Finally finished our homestudy report. So probably about a month out from finding out about our matched child or children, if our timeline follows anything like other people that took the foster/adopt class with us.

Just finished reading : The Shockwave Rider By John Brunner

I wasn't thrilled about the back & forth style. It stopped the flow of the story. The storyline itself was good- I'm always into books with the "gov't is corrupt" plots.

Now I've decided to go through Asimov's Robot & Foundation series. Not in the order they were written, but in the order he recommends.

Starting with:

Don't Worry, Be Happy

Sat, 25 Apr 2009 20:02:16 GMT

Mark Fiore Cartoon: Fuzzy the Concilaiton Caterpillar

US to release photos of non-abu gharib torture
- http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/04/24-1

Monday, April 13, 2009

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:00:24 GMT

Back in February 2007, my Canadian hubby & I were living in Boise Idaho. We had sold our house the previous fall and looked at buying an internet cafe in Red Deer, but backed out as it wasn't that great of a deal. We had general plans to move to Canada in the spring of 2007, but didn't have anything concrete decided yet.

Then one day, we packed up our uhaul and our 3 cats, left a voicemail for our landlord, dropped our housekeys in the mail & made the 1100 mi /1800 km trek to Edmonton Alberta. Hubby was born in Edmonton & lived here until he was 11. When we moved, we didn't know a soul in Edmonton, it was just a landing zone for us.

I am liking Edmonton, but for the past couple years, I haven't really had a lot to compare it with. This Easter Weekend, we drove down to Calgary so I could see that city a little bit. I didn't like it. Definitely not my cup of tea. Boy am I glad we're in Edmonton! Thanks Hubby!

Rainbow child

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 10:38:43 GMT

Your rainbow is intensely shaded green, white, and red.

What is says about you: You are a contemplative person. You feel strong ties to nature and your mood changes with its cycles. Those around you admire your fresh outlook and vitality. You get bored easily and want friends who will keep up with you.

Find the colors of your rainbow at spacefem.com.

[thanks Soobee72 for the quiz!]

Look at Little Sister

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 02:32:50 GMT

While I was off in Arizona at my bro-in-law's wedding, my brother was here in Edmonton doing a Stevie Ray Vaughn tribute. Check it out.

No Pacifiers in Hockey

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 05:01:23 GMT