November already!

Zoiks! Time flies whether you're having fun or not. I can't believe it's November already. T and the kids were off yesterday because of the elections. They use several of the schools as voting places so it's safer to not have the kids there. A went shopping with E and bagged a couple of bargains. When she got to one store she texted me saying that the purse she wanted was walking around in the arms of another lady. It was the last one, too. She kept an eye out though and the lady set it back down and A promptly picked it up. Woo hoo!

J spent the day at a friend's house and then came home and pouted over his homework. That kid wastes more time pouting and moving slowly. If he'd just do what he has to do and get it done he'd have all kinds of free time.

T got his jeep all cleaned up yesterday. He says it's cleaner than it was when he got it. Probably true since it's an older jeep.

A applied for a job yesterday at one of the stores she went to. They are hiring for holiday help and you don't have to be 18 to work there. We shall see.

Mrs. H's grandson will likely be discharged from the hospital on Friday. They said that a 25 year nursing veteran told them that the only children who recover this quickly from ADEM are those who have hands-on parenting and those who have people praying for them. How awsome is that?! Praise God and go W!

J continues to make us laugh at the funny things he says. He still hasn't figured out all the things he's supposed to say when life is interupted by "bodily functions". Like, if someone sneezes he doesn't really say anything but if someone burps he'll say, "Bless you." Or, if he toots he'll say "Sorry" instead of excuse me. Or sometimes just to be silly he'll say, "Bless you Plerry Platipus" for anything that might happen. Cracks us up. He still has trouble with the correct gender of pronoun as well as some other regulars that I of course can't think of now that I want to write them down. Sigh...

November is adoption awareness month. There are millions of orphans all over the world and more the 100,000 (I think the number is close to 130,000) children in foster care in America waiting to be placed in forever families. Adoption is not for everyone and you may wonder what you can do about the problem. Kristen Howerton wrote a great blog post about this; www.rageagainsttheminivan.com/2010/10/what-you-can-do.html . I don't know Kristen IRL but as I've shared before, you can't go through a Haitian adoption and not feel a bond with others who have walked that same road. She has one son adopted from foster care, two bio daughters and one son adopted from Haiti. The older daughter and the son born in Haiti are virtual twins, having been born on the same day. How cool is that? Good stuff in this post from Kristen. Take time to check it out.