Cute Shirt

I found this shirt that I really like on a website full of shirts related to adoption. So, if anyone was thinking to themselves how they really wanted to get me a present...this would be a good shirt to get. ;) I have a hard time spending $25 + shipping on myself when we're in the middle of a process that will cost $18,000+. I've included a picture of the shirt, as well as a link to the website below. So I'm really just kidding....well kind of!

Click here to see the website!

Approved!

We had our interview with Bethany today and it went really well! At the end of it we were informed that we were "approved" to be adopting through Bethany, and since we paid our $600 homestudy update fee, and our $3000 networking fee (ouch!), we can now be shown to birthmothers. We will also be added to their online profiles as soon as we send in our "Dear Birthmother" letter and pictures. As soon as we are on their website I will post a link so you can see it. After our interview (which lasted 2 hours!), we went to Joann fabrics where I bought some cute material, we went to Schlotzskys for lunch, and then Best Buy for Nate to look around. I thought we were going to have the rest of the afternoon and evening free, but as we were walking around Best Buy, my phone gave me an alert reminding me of the Searcy Children's Homes appreciation dinner tonight! So, we had to hurry home so we would have a few hours to rest before getting dressed up and going to that. I did manage to get all the stuff for our profile emailed, and I also finished our taxes...thankfully we will be getting a refund again this year! It was a good day, and I feel like we got a lot accomplished. Please pray a birthmother comes to one of our agencies soon and chooses us!

Agency info

Well we are finally moving along with Bethany. We ended up needing 2 separate visits because of a change in their "rules," but one of those was just her walking around our house to make sure it would be a "suitable" place for a baby. She came today and I didn't even have to be there, Nate just let her in and said it took around 15 minutes. I think we have to have more than one exit to our house, windows in bedrooms, a fire extinguisher, smoke detectors, a separate bedroom for each child, and no obvious problems that would be dangerous for a child. We have our interview scheduled for this Saturday at 10 so please pray that goes well, and we are able to move forward quickly afterward.

School Funny

So I had a semi eventful day at school today. Along with covering a duty I had never done before and having a kid steal another kid's necklace in my class and lie about it, I did have one funny exchange I thought I would share. During my last class of the day (kinder), I had a kindergartner named *Billy* raise his hand and tell me "My daddy is a president!" I'm assuming his dad is the president of some club or something, so I ask him what his dad is the president of. He tells me his dad is the president of the state. I say, "Your dad is the president of Arkansas? So is his name Mike Beebe (our governor)?" He said no, so I told him his dad couldn't be the president of Arkansas, and he should go home and ask his dad what he was the president of. I assumed that would be the end of it, but right at the end of class, he raised his hand again, and told me, "My dad is Barack Obama!" I say, "So your dad is the president of the United States?" and he said yeah. Well then I tell him he needs to tell his dad to give teachers a lot more money! I finally try to get him to tell me he is just joking and his dad isn't Barack Obama, but he was ready to go to his grave proclaiming that his dad is Barack Obama! What makes it even funnier is that this kid's skin color makes it even more obvious that there is no way he could be Barack Obama's son! Ah, kindergartners!

SNOW!

Well I really didn't think anything was going to come of it, but we actually got a lot (for around here!) of snow last night! Of course school is canceled, which is both good and bad because I have a program coming up, and this means I won't get to have my Monday classes for 3 weeks in a row since we are off next Monday for Martin Luther King Jr day. Oh well...modify and adjust I suppose! Here are some pics around our house!

Look what I made!

I had created these images a while ago, but I finally transferred them to baby outfits (not sure how to spell "onsies.") Unfortunately, I only got 4 out of my 6 images to work correctly...one of them I accidentally ironed on upside down, and the other one started coming off when I ironed another image onto the back. So...I will have to re-do those later. Here are pics of them...even the ones I messed up.









These two are the two that I messed up. :(

Yes the front of this one said "small", but some of it came off when I ironed on the back.