The kids have started the extra curricular activities. K-man has started hockey and can't wait to play a game. Jumping Jack is taking ballet and jazz this year. She is excited because in school band she is playing the clarinet. Our local movie theater was playing the movie Grease sing a long yesterday so we went to that as a family. It was fun as this is one of my favorite movies. Both the kids enjoyed it and yes I did sing a long!
     I went to a stamp a stack on Saturday and made Christmas cards. I know it's early but Christmas is a busy time and it actually feels really good to have them done.
     Last weekend Jumping Jack and I went to Justin Bieber!! She LOVES him. so I went among all the screaming girls with my ear plugs and Advil. Does that mean I am getting old? He is a really good dancer and did put on a good show.

Adoption news:
-We got our first round of travel vaccinations
     1 needle for Jumping Jack
     1 needle for K-man
     2 needles for T.
     2 needles for me
then we go back in a month for more! fun times.

-Our Homestudy is in the hands of the government right now waiting for the official seal of approval. It should be back in 4 weeks or so.

-our Profile is finished but it seems that every place we get it printed it prints out differently. The colours are too dark or the pictures are too orange or the font is unreadable. So we are working with our local print shop to get it the way we want it.

-I talked with our agency and they said we don't actually have to wait until the citizenship part 1 comes back before we can send our dossier to South Africa. so that makes me happy because that form was going to take 27 weeks.

-We were told that I need to get a psychological evaluation because of my experience with postpartum depression. At first I was shocked and kind of unsure of what a psychological evaluation was. They want to know my personality, about our marriage, emotional health and how I cope in stressful situations. I am not really sure why they don't just ask our doctor? as I have already included a doctors note. Whatever just another hoop for us to jump through and more money to spend.

So once we finish all this we will be officially waiting.

     I have met a really nice lady from South Africa (S.A.) that owns a local coffee shop here. She was a few S.A. options at her shop. I have tried a S.A. tea and we tried a dessert milk tart that is sort of like cheese cake. Jumping Jack said if the food S.A. tastes this good she can't wait to go. I wonder if she will think that after we try the curry?

Please keep praying for my Auntie Lisa. She has better days and worse days.
Please pray for my Grandpa Carl as he had an operation on his legs.

Thanks for reading, Love, Dilly