Wow, where do I start? There's so much in my head. I was really pumped on Thursday about the O-wide prayer day. I ended up working all day and not getting to pray as much as I wanted to. I knew I was scheduled to work it's just that the other day I ended up doing methodical work that allowed more adoption prayer time. An acquaintance through work (whom I really liked but not really "friends" per say) passed away that day too. Then A had 4 A's, a B and a really bad grade on her first 6 weeks report card. You know, the high school ones that matter for like, the rest of your life. A is definitely not all to blame as the teacher forgot to record a grade and then when A brought it up the teacher asked for the paper and A had already thrown it away. It's a frustrating situation to say the least. Didn't make for a great day. We didn't get any adoption news either. Sigh...nor today. Sigh... I was very encouraged by the songs and verses that the other adopting mothers posted on our group chat site. Good stuff.
We did go to visit a private Christian college with R today. It took some curvy roads to get there. About 1 3/4 hours of the 2 1/2 it took to get there were the kind of curves where you meet yourself going the other way about half way around the curve. T seems to like watching us grab on to the armrests as he sees just how fast he can take the curves. We drive a van for crying out loud, not a sports car. He was complaining about the people in front of us going too slow, but I think God put them there. They were really angels.
The college has awesome people, awesome teachers and an awesome atmosphere. Everyone was so polite and friendly. We went to a chapel service that was really good. We also got to sit in on a Musical Theater class. There are two things that are important to R that they don't offer; there is no equestrian program and no visual arts classes. Finances would be a potential problem too but we had no idea how we'd ever pay for an adoption either. I know that God will provide if He wants R to go to this college. There are only about 800 students and the teacher to student ratio is about 1 to 13. All the kids and teachers seemed to know each other and interact well together. When we walked into the admissions office there was a big TV screen that had the names of the visiting potential students. We walked up the steps just in time to see R's name on the screen.
We stopped at a roadside pumpkin stand on the way home. They had every kind of pumpkin, squash and gourd you could imagine and some that you couldn't. We got some squash, tomatoes, apples, plum jelly and apple butter. I asked if it was a farmer's market and the lady seemed a little miffed. She said her and her husband grew it all. Wow. You'd have to see this place to be as awed as we were. I heard her tell someone that "them tomaters ain't from Florida, we grew them right up chonder". Too funny.
When we got home R had some mail. One thing was from the local state college with an application for her to be part of an honors program. Only 20 students each year get to be in this program and they sent R an application! Wow! It would pay her tuition and fees for all 4 years and give her $1,000 per year for books. Wow! She is definitely applying for that.
J's b'day is Sunday. I never dreamed he wouldn't be home. It's looking like he'll miss the family vacation too. It makes me sad. This process is so frustrating. The kid was 7 when we started actively pursuing the adoption. He turned 8 just before we commited to him. He'll be 10 Sunday. I'm just not "getting" it right now. Sigh...We've been waiting for this signature to apply for the passport for 4 months now. 4 months. That's 17 weeks and two days. It's absurd. I think I better not continue on this thread. I might go crazy.
I'll talk about the cat, Sanome (pronounced sanna-may, we often call her "sanna"). She has an incessant habit of rearranging the food and water bowls. I bought some of that sticky, rubbery shelf liner stuff and cut pieces of it to put under the bowls. Ha! She got her bowl up on to the wood floor from the linoleum and pulled the rubbery stuff out and moved it across the laundry room. Then she proceeded to spill the entire water bowl. It wouldn't move and she had always moved it in the past so she just kept trying and it finally tipped. She also scoops out pieces of food and chases them all over the house before she eats them. In the process of getting one out to chase, she pulls several out. You can't walk in the laundry room without the crunch of cat food or kitty litter. Yes, I know. We have weird cats at our house. We refer to them as "neuro-kitties" when they exhibit their odd little behaviors. Well "Numbers" is on. Gotta go.
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