Hard choices and hard wired?

All right, I guess it's time to post another blog.

Sorry I am so bad at it sometimes! Guess that it's not that high on my priority list when it comes down to it.

So, let's see.. the update:

I think we've had one more call since the last time I posted, Mala called to tell us we were going to staffing about a sibling group, with a 5 month old baby boy and a 2.5 year old girl. They went to another family. Turns out we don't have enough experience with babies who were exposed to drugs. (Praise the Lord! Though if that's where He leads, us, that's where we'll go!)

We're trying to get our bathroom/closet remodel done before my dear friend, Diane gets here from Canada early next month. So I pushed Baron to try to get the electrical work done yesterday. Boy was that a mistake. Sweet husband, is not good at electrical work. Turns out when he did it for a living (as an apprentice) all he learned was when the lunch cart came, and how to race certain things with wheels that are commonly found on the construction site. Great. So we had to call an electrician. $520 later, we have the bathroom rewired, and an estimate for $10,000 of things that need to be done to bring our house up to code. Thankfully because these things are original to the house, we don't have to actually bring them up to code.. But they said some of the things do present a safety issue. It's ok though. I have little faith in a company that was going to insist on putting -6- fire alarms in a tiny tiny house!! We already have 2, and 2 more to be installed if we so please, but really, 6? in a 1,500 sqft house? You've got to be kidding me!

I have also decided to try to get into graduate school! I would like to go to UTD's joint Master's/PhD program in Communication Sciences and Disorders. Because I'd be working on both at one time, it'd take me a lot less time to do both. Basically, although I had planned on staying at home during my kids early life, I will be able to work school hours if I so choose, so it would be better all around for our family in the long run.

I guess that's about it!

Stay tuned for more.
-Megan