I feel like i've had a good day! That's a great feeling! Tired, yes, but otherwise i sure can't complain.

I woke to a phone call this morning at 6:50am... "sorry to bother you so early, but can you watch the boys for the day shift?" (instead of just the 2 1/2 hours this afternoon).

"Um, ya, sure." I was kind of expecting to be watching my nephews from 9:30-7:00 (Robbie ~ the one that keeps us all BUSY ~ lol ~ and his brother Andrew), so we didn't have any other plans ~ didn't even plan to do any school. Sure, i'll watch them.

So about 10min. later I was over at their house. She told me later that her boss (or co-worker?) had been impressed ~ she managed to get a sitter and be at work in 15min. The boys were still sleeping, so when they got up and dressed we came back here.

I ended up not having my nephews, which was fine, but I see this as one more way that God is providing... AND, I get them for another day shift tomorrow as well (also a change from the original plans). The boys really seem to like it here, and we like them too :-) so it's been a good thing for all of us.

I've been a little impatient with our bank account situation... i think we are ready to apply for adoption and begin our homestudy just as soon as we have enough money set aside for the home study (AND are out of our line of credit), but just when it looked like we were almost out of our line of credit again, we're back in WAY too far! With Jonathan's raise, and my baby-sitting, plus a tax break for families that leaves us a little more on Jonathan's pay check each month, (all of which do make a little difference), i was hoping to see a bigger difference by now, but I guess we had a lot of catching up to do after paying property taxes (almost $3000) and building the deck ($1000). I'm trying not to be impatient though because i really don't want to run ahead of God with the adoption thing either. We just feel at this point that our "green light" will be when we're out of our line of credit and have $800-$1000 saved for home study. (Oh, i have been putting some of my baby-sitting money into savings for that, so i'm almost up to $400 there).

Oh right, i also got to baby-sit for my sister last week Friday. Their 7yr. old foster child is no longer with them, but they have another baby ~ 11 mos. old. So doing 2 babies was a novelty here ~ and a bit of an adventure. One of them had a few VERY messy diapers that I needed help with ~ lol ~ and the little boy got a bath out of the deal too. Something about watching these babies though (and i've fallen in love with the other one by now ~ we'll all miss him when he moves on) makes me almost want to adopt a baby too (like a baby with an older sister)... but i'm not totally convinced yet, and Jonathan even less so. He enjoys the babies, but... well, he says he likes to spoil them and send them home.

Janique has started therapeudic riding and absolutely LOVES it! I'm a little concerned how we'll keep her content when the 5 months are over ~ it's really quite expensive on our budget, but i think it's a good thing for her, so probably worth the money at this point ~ just not sure that we'll be able to keep her in it long term. Maybe we can find something more affordable if it's not necessarily "therapeudic"... guess we'll see.

Well, i better get going... tomorrow morning is another early one...