trips and updates

So, I do believe it's time to update!

A lot has gone on this week. I've been helping L pack a little, and working on other stuff around the house. We were supposed to go pick up the casefile for the kids on wednesday, but tuesday evening we got word that it hadn't made it yet, so we would have to check back to see if we could come and read it on thursday. Thankfully they let us come pick it up and bring it home because it took us 12 HOURS to read. Seriously. The stack of papers was 7 inches tall! We didn't find out much that we didn't already know. A lot of a casefile is "he said this.." "so and so called so and so," a letter was sent on this date informing the parents of what their services would be and when they needed to be completed" etc. only about 100 pages of it was important information. I'd say about 1/10 of it was fax cover sheets, and another 1/8 was empty forms that were never filled out. another 1/10 of it were forms that had one little line or word that was relevant. And to top it off, it didn't change our answer, and it really didn't tell us that much more about the kids, or their situation. (which, just a reminder, we will only divulge things we feel necessary to you forming a relationship with the children. Please know that we can't/won't tell everything)

The only thing that is important, is that any child coming into care through the state CPS will have been through a lot in their short lives. They will take extra care, and we may or may not parent the same way you would parent your biological children, or adopted children that have been with you since infancy. We are asking that those of you who love us and care about us not expect us to take your advice because these children will need different things/different amount of things (like attention and affection) than your children need to develop on track. Don't take offense to it, it's just that often times children adopted at an older age need different things than other children of the same age group.

Ok, so enough of my "teaching," I'll continue with my update!

I spoke with the caseworker, we'll call her TP. (and no, it does not stand for toilet paper!) and she said that she might want us to come down to meet the kids this next weekend! EEEK! unfortunately, my best friends wedding is that weekend to. So the current plan is to leave the 2 days post wedding free so we can drive down to meet the kids, the boy's teacher and school counselor, and their therapists. Now most of you know that we live in DFW, so the drive wouldn't be that big of a deal, but Baron and I will both be in Arkansas all week. So it's now a 10 hour drive down to where the kids live. CRAZY! Oh well, I am ready to give what these kids need, and if they need us there next weekend, then so be it!

So on the subject of the wedding, I started breaking out into full faced acne. All over. it sucked. So mom took me up to our fav pharmacy and got me some of the doctor of pharmacy's new FDA approved acne creme. It quickly started to clear up my face, but unfortunately, I seem to be allergic to it. (as I am to many, many things) So instead of acne, I now have a full face/neck full of atopic dermititis, (a form of excema). It's so itchy! The good news is that it's a really mild case, so maybe it will be gone by the wedding day. That's what I get for acting vain. lol!

I guess that's about it. I am in Siloam Springs this week staying at my grandparents, and I am STARVING. They no longer keep food around that I like, though my tastes have changed so much since I last lived here I doubt they'd know what I liked anyway.. :)

I am going to go forage for some snacks!
-Megan