It never fails to surprise me how much stuff accumulates over time when you are taking care of three separate households - ours (the four of us which doesn't sound too bad but w/all of Shelby's special needs stuff - there's just more...more forms to fill out, more I.E.P.'s to file, more pieces of paper from the equipment people, etc.), my Grandma (again, how much stuff could an 88 year old have? quite a lot between her normal bills then all her bank statement things and the agency that provides her helpers sends me stuff weekly) and Baby (it's been TWO WHOLE DAYS since he's moved but there's still more stuff I found of his that needs to be filed in the proper folder, more paperwork to be filled out from my social worker). Add to 3 households the fact that July is just busy for us naturally with the 4th of July, the twins' birthday, their birthday party and my birthday then include the fact that Baby met his forever family, they did visits, a sleepover, more visits, and paperwork just gets taller and taller in the pile that just grows and grows.
Yesterday, Shane was w/his grandparents and Steve and I took Shelby to a 6 hour camp. After we dropped her off, we went to Walgreen's to download my pics of the Baby to mail to the new family and shopped around to waste time for that to happen, went to my Grandma's, we went out to lunch and came back to play a game of scrabble with her, we left and waited around for Shelby at the college campus she was at then picked her up. We arrived home in time to give Shelby a speedy shower and get ready for dinner then church. At church, we showed some friends pictures of Baby's last day (the before and after shots) and pics of JoJo.
Today was all about chores and being productive - dishes, laundry, pulling weeds, balancing the checkbook, making a master to do list, filing things, organizing paperwork, making meals, recycling things, changing sheets - in the two nights Baby's been gone, Shelby's woken me up three times. Ugh.
Tonight JoJo's new mommy and Baby's new mommy both texted me and it was soooo good to hear from both of them. I've really been praying specifically for Baby that his precious heart isn't sad or confused about where we are - I just truly want him to love, love, love his new family and feel adored and happy and at peace with his new life. I don't want him to feel rejected, abandoned, confused, sad or hurt. I pray he is smiling and giggling and loving every minute like he did with us. The day after he moved, would've been 150 days with us...he came to us at 9 weeks and left at almost 30...LOVE that boy...all "our" phenomenal foster blessings....
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