almost 2 years later

wow - i forgot i had started a blog... i'm obviously great at this. its amazing to see where God has brought my family since my last blog! that baby i had gotten a call about is now my son - Alexzander Shem's adoption should be finalized within 2 months and i will be an 'official' mom to an amazing little man. When i wrote the last blog i had put in an application only 2 months earlier to adopt this cute little boy, Daryris. Daryris is now Daryus and he is my son as well! God is good.

baby #6 coming next week

so, i got a call today from the county asking if chris and i want to take in yet another foster child.  i can hardly believe this child will be #6 since we started fostering less than a year ago... oh yeah, of course we said, "yes".  The newest addition is named Alexx and he is only 3 months old.  the county worker shared Alexx's 'story' with me and that in light of his story they are looking for a "pre adoptive" home for him.  i've learned, or at least am starting to learn, to not get my hopes up when words like "pre adoptive" are used anymore.  All but one of the 6 placements i've had have been "pre adoptive" or during the time the children were with us we were asked if we would be interested in adopting them, and 4 have already come and gone.  i guess this is the nature of trying to adopt through foster care.  i know what i'm getting into every time i take in a child but still hope that this placement will be "the one".  Chris says that every placement we get increases our chances of having an adoptive placement since 1:9 kids in foster care in NY eventually are freed for adoption.  i kept telling David that he's going to have a new "little" brother coming next week.  i wonder what, if any, effect the kids coming in and out of our home has on him.  he's been here through all the placements.

well i better go clean my house, or procrastinate cleaning my house some more by watching tv... one of the two.

so.. i'm blogging

so...  i finally decided to bite the bullet and create a blog.  i've thought about it for awhile but figured no one would want to hear my rantings.  then i realized that i rant all the times to my friends, more than i should, and most of them put up with it so i might as well do it on a blog and stop being a blog martyr.