Our social worker came over today with our homestudy for us to read and sign off on. It is soooo weird to read all about us. It is the story of our life. It is really long and was a lot of reading. She did really good. I think that it would be hard to write so much about people. She was very accurate about our personalities and parenting styles. I must say we look really good on paper.

    So now that she has it written our homestudy gets send to 2 different editors for grammar and spelling. Then gets sent to her supervisor and then the director of Christian Adoption Services. Then it gets signed and sealed by our provincial authority who is Ann Schully. Everything is such a long process. But I am beginning to understand and expect that.

    I have ordered our South Africa manual for adoption from MOT. I am excited for it to arrive so that I will have another ``to do list`` and can start ticking more things off.
   Thank you to everyone for all your support and prayers. Love, Dilly

We are home from Holidays in Beautiful British Columbia. It was nice to get away and enjoy the sun. We went to the Enchanted Forest and Sky Trek one not so sunny day. It was fun spending time together as a family. now we are back home in the rain.
Back at home we haven't even unpacked yet, instead we boxed up our upstairs because today we are getting new carpet installed. K-man had a few tears because he said he likes the blue carpet and doesn't want it to go!
We have received an email from MOT that Gordon has reviewed our application and we are accepted! This is exciting and means I wait for a package to come in that mail with a long list of things we need to do and papers to gather. I can't wait for it to come so that I can start gathering and feel like I am doing something to help this process get going. In some ways I am a patient person but in some ways this waiting, waiting and more waiting will be tough for me. We are also waiting to hear how our social worker is doing on our home study.
Please continue to keep our family in your prayers. We are putting all of this journey in God's mighty and powerful hands. We know that he has a plan for our family and we will follow where he leads us.
Love Dilly

This picture is of T and I with our preliminary application form for international adoption to Christian Adoption Services taken May 2010. We look like we would make good adoptive parents. Don't you think?

I will try and add some pictures. Here I go: This is a picture of Robyn (the social worker in South Africa) and Gordon the director of the agency in Ontario . This was at the Meet in Greet in Sask. but I thought you might like to put a face to the name.

Sometimes I wonder why I bother?

- Last night I thought I'd be "good mom" and made homemade cream of potato soup. I find a recipe, check that I have all the ingredients and start chopping away. The kids begin "mom help me with this, mom we need you." Yes I know but you also want supper. So I'm simmering away. the soup is ready, T. is still at work and the kids are whining before they even look at what I have made. Jumping Jack tries a few bites. K-man doesn't want any think to do with this homemade soup that I have made from scratch. So in the end he tries 1 bite and they decide to have Campbell's chicken noodle. Nice I spend time and effort to make a nice meal and my kids won't eat it and my husband is working late. So that means more soup for Momma. I enjoyed it. but note: celery salt and celery seed are not the same. as my soup was a lot salty. but I enjoyed it.
(For soup recipe click this link: http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Best-Cream-of-Potato-Soup/Detail.aspx Note decrease mustard powder to 1/4 tsp, use less cayenne pepper and watch the salt in the bouillon. These are some tried and true tips I have learned the hard way:(

- Why I bother is also true for cleaning the house. It takes me 2 hours to clean and them 2 minutes to destroy.
- Why I bother thinking I will take time to "do" an activity, game or craft with them that results in fighting, mess and me thinking why do I bother? just go watch TV.
I guess it's all about balance. That is why I'm drinking coffee, we are all still in our P.J's and I am making simple Kraft dinner for lunch. Why because I know that they will eat it, without complaining. and I will not have to worry about another meal until, snack time?? Why do they always need/want a snack? No wonder K-man thinks my job is "to make him food" that is what I do. Off to make KD, Dilly