I went through this time where life was so busy and so crazy that I didn’t even have one second to think about blogging. I forgot I even had a blog. But then I remembered that I used to love to blog, and I remembered this little space and I missed it. Now life is so busy and so crazy, but I do have time to think about my blog. Not think about it as in devote time and make it awesome — but think about it as in maybe I could actually write a little again.
So it’s Saturday night, and I’m laying on the couch watching the Olympics while Tommy finishes getting the big kids to bed. I put the baby to bed, and I have the easy job for sure. I haven’t felt well today and laid around a lot. I was relieved to find out I had a fever because otherwise I would have just been plain lazy. So now I’m giving myself permission to lay around and “rest” instead of the rest of the day when I was all like “lazy, lazy, lazy”.
I have so much to share and catch everyone up on. So let’s see, where do I start? Well I used to blog and then 2 years ago we became a foster family, and I stopped blogging because I lost any spare time I had. In that time we have had 11 children in our home — some just for a night or 2 and some longer. We have adopted our 2 precious daughters!!! Jack has grown TONS. Tommy has changed jobs, and we have moved to a new home. The bulk of those things happened in just the last few months. There are obviously many details and much I want to share, and I hope to break it down as I’m able. I can’t wait to share more about the girls and their adoption stories. They are the best additions to our family, and we couldn’t have 2 girls who fit perfectly with us more.
As for what is going on right now — school starts in 11 days, and we’re all very excited. VERY. The kids are ready to go back, and I’m very ready for them to. This summer started with some structure, but it just flew out the window pretty quickly with the move. I learned that moving with 3 kids means just holding on and hoping everyone gets to the new house in one piece. We still have lots of unpacking and settling in to do, but my expectations to unpack were low going in to this — just trying to be realistic. I think I’ll accomplish more once school starts back.
We spend a lot of our week in therapies. Sometimes when I mention that we do therapy, people think we sit on a couch and talk for hours a week. I kind of wish – haha! Our goal is to help our girls catch up and develop as best as they can in order to be the best they can possibly be. Right now we are working on that by doing a whole lot of therapy. We do occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech therapy, feeding therapy, play therapy, behavioral therapy, and have a developmental therapist. It’s a lot. And it gets overwhelming often. We typically have 16 different therapy sessions a week. It’s pretty crazy. But I remind myself that it’s worth it and this season of intense therapy won’t last for too long. Before I know it all of my babies will be in school, and we’ll be so thankful they had everything they could early in life to help them.
When we aren’t in therapy, we try to unpack. Before we moved when we weren’t in therapy we were working on selling our house. It’s been a crazy year. But a good year. We’re looking forward to some stability ahead and less chaos. Although, I’m pretty sure I’ve been saying that for the last 4 or maybe 5 years, so…. Here are some recent pictures of our precious kiddos! I hope you are all well! xoxo!
Jack at 5 years old. So handsome! This summer he got a buzz cut for the first time!
Izzy after her 3 year old check up last week. She turns 3.5 next week, so we’re a little behind on that. She was so proud of her finger prick that she had to show it off.
Cooper June and her sweet self. This was a big moment because she used to be terrified of swinging. She doesn’t like to swing for very long, but she’s made huge progress!
adventures of jack and me 