Still no house

We're back in the States and it has been wild. I don't have internet access where I live and then my laptop's screen went out last week, so it's been hard to get online. I finally had a chance today to use John's computer where I had access.

So........... on to the update...........

I could begin with a ton of my embarrassing moments stories, but I'll save them for later.
Actually, I need to go get the kids fed, so I think I'm going to make it a super short update and not tell any of the great things we've done yet.

We still do not have a home. We do have a home under contract, but we're waiting to hear back on it. It's a home in foreclosure, so the bank takes a while to let you know if they accept your offer, etc. We should be hearing really soon.

In the meantime, we're continuing to look at other options just in case.
I'm SO ready to get into something!!! I'm ready to feel settled.

School.........hmmm. That's been interesting. We've done our best, but it's definitely not the ideal. We did get a study in about Michelangelo and Renoir, as well as finish our unit on the Oregon Trail/pioneer time frame. That was intersting. Today we started an introductory unit on Shakespeare for all of the crew and then Ike and I will be studying his plays one by one indepth. It's pretty interesting so far.

We even read some great books about interesting "famous" American people-- such as Kellog (as in the cereal), Levi Strauss and others. I'm looking forward to digging deeper with more biographies now that we're back in the States and have the libraries! woohoo!

The kids have had fun at an indoor waterpark for a birthday party and of course their favorite thing of all is going to the library. Did I mention how much we missed that for 6 years??????? I think I could drop them off there in the morning and they'd stay all day and never get bored.

We've been gathering documents for the adoption and it's looking really good. We should be starting our home study any time now. We took a bunch of paperwork out to the adoption agency today for that. Now we just need the home! haha! keep praying..............

the kids are hungry and asking me to come home. I guess I'll have to finish the update later.