I need a break!!!

Man! Things are just so insane and I’m so ready for life to slow down! Luckily, we are almost done with a few different things. Foster care classes will be done next week and I’ll probably be done working right around that time also. It’s amazing how crazy life gets. Life is good though!!! Hope [...]

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Self-Cleaning House

When is someone going to get on the ball and invent a self-cleaning house?!?!?! For crying out loud they have self-cleaning ovens, DVRs that can learn what you like and automatically record it, vacuums that can go around the house and clean the floors without us having to move …what’s so difficult about having a [...]

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POLL: Is a 4-year old old enough to play outside alone?

Ok so I’m looking for opinions here and I KNOW that I have people that stop by so please add your 2 cents.
Here’s the back story…
We went to a foster home the other day to meet the little girl we are going to be taking care of for a week and when we got there [...]

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New “Carter”ism

Ok so last week, we had the foster care licensor come to our house for a home study visit. We had been talking to Carter about her coming and we were telling him that the “special lady” was going to be coming to the house to make sure it was a safe place and to [...]

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We’ve got the layoff blues!

Well, things are a little hairy at Mike’s work right now. They are going to be laying people off, but we aren’t sure who or how many which means he is in danger of being one of the unfortunate. At this point, I’m just trying not to worry because it never seems to do any [...]

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Gotta Love American Idol

How cool!!! So I just watched the last American Idol tonight. (We Tivo everything!!!!) Anyways, I thought that was so awesome that they sang Shout to the Lord. They did an amazing job too. I got chills the whole time they sang it!

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Mary Kay

My sales director gave me a goal of getting 5 bookings within the next two weeks and hold 2 of them in the next two weeks. We have to complete this in order to continue in a special training class. I was super nervous, because I had absolutely NO bookings at all!!! So I went [...]

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Praise God Already!!!!

WOW that was a quick response to my prayer!!! God is amazing! Mike just sent me another text saying that his supervisor told him that he had nothing to worry about. They aren’t going to layoff that many people!! WOW I have chills right now! Well if anyone out there happened to say a prayer [...]

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Please say a prayer!

I woke up this morning to a text from Mike saying that they just posted the voluntary sign up for layoffs. Typically this means that forced layoffs are coming soon. This could either be really bad or really good… He does have a couple of guys underneath him in his department that would go first [...]

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Carter’s Doctor Appt.

So Mike took Carter to the dr. for his check-up so we could get his medical form signed off on for foster care. At the appt.they decided to do an eye test. For the younger ones, the eye chart has pictures instead of letters… this one had a house, an apple, and (something else, I [...]

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