Home study

Well! Tomorrow is the day! We are getting our fingerprints and background checks completed at 9am and then our case worker, Dale is coming at 2pm for the official home study. Saying that I am nervous would be an understatement. When I called him to schedule the appointment he told me not to stress about and it's not meant to be a 'white glove' kind of thing. But...clearly he does not know me THAT well yet. I am cleaning like crazy just to make sure there is no reason for anything to go wrong. We get new batteries for all the smoke detectors, cleaned off the hot water heater, vacuumed out the dryer filters, checked and pulled out our fire extinguisher, put up all the medicine, locked up the guns, and what seems like a million other small things. Hopefully I'm not missing anything. I'm actually nervous that Dale is going to tell us to slow down. We already have a nursery half way set up, around 400 diapers waiting for a cute baby bum to wrap, bottles in the cupboard, and some clothes in the closet. I know we are getting everything ready and all the paperwork done in record time (which I love), but it's not like we don't understand that there is a wait in our future. We know all that, but I am ready now and I think if I get things done on my end, blessings will come our way. There could be someone out there right now looking for us, and I want to be ready for them. And there might now be yet, but when they do start looking for us, we will be ready! I just know you are out there little one and I want you to know that I already love you so much! I found this beautiful image online that I just love. It will definitely be printed and hung up in the nursery!

On the flip side of life. Matthew and I are doing great and just plugging along through this semester of college. It's going super easy for me since I am only in one class and then working full time outside of school and then part time on campus. Matthew, however, is a different story. He works so hard for us and I am so thankful for him and everything he does for our family. I don't tell him enough, but I will today! He works every hour that he can. He runs to school and then work and then school again everyday. It would be so easy for him to take the 3 hours in between his classes to take a break or just do his homework, but he doesn't. He runs to work and gets as many hours in that he can and goes right back to school. Then he stays up late to finish his studies, crawls into bed and wakes up early the next morning to do it all over again AND he makes me breakfast every morning. Wow, what a guy! I love him! His grandma dies yesterday and it has been hard on the family, but it was her time to go and she was wanting to pass. That made it a lot easier for everyone to bare since we know it is what she wanted. His parents are going to come stay with us for the weekend to get his mom's mind off of the passing and to visit us here in Idaho. I always love when they visit! We have so much fun and play games and eat yummy foods that my MIL spoils us with.

I am working on my documentary project at the local candy shop called Florence's Exquisite Candies. They make everything from scratch and let me just say YUM! It has been so fun to get to know the staff and family and photograph them. Not to mention all the free samples! But, all in all, life is great. We just finished filing our taxes for the year and got so much back that now the adoption is completely covered. It is such a blessing. It seems that everything is falling right into place in order to make it as easy for us as possible. I thank my Heavenly Father for that. I know that He is looking out for us and has our best interests in mind.

We don't have school on Monday (woohoo) for President's day and it will also be my birthday! Lucky me! It's the best! I have almost always had my birthday off of school due to this holiday or it falling on a weekend.I know I'm still young, but I am feeling pretty old this year! Thus is life I guess!

So anyway! Here goes nothing. Wish us luck with the home study and I will update on how everything goes after I have calmed down enough to type.