O Happy Day!

Ok so I got a phone call today... and we have our court appointment in Ethiopia! Yay for us! Unfortunately it's not until April 22nd and we may have to go through a second court date due to any whim of the judge who sees our case. BUT I'm so happy to have a date! It's like I am checking off a list (which I love to do by the way - I'm a list person. So if I can accomplish or have things accomplished (which is even better HA!, then I am a happy camper). I also haven't blogged in a few weeks or so and need to give the fam update.
First of all, we moved. Woohoo let's hear it for no more boxes. Man I hate moving. Yuck Yuck Yuck. Trying to figure out where everything goes.. it's just beyond what this unorganized girl can handle. I do admire those like my own mother who can organize (even though she's got her own messy rooms but I'm not gonna get into that). I just literally closed a few door or shoved stuff into a few closets and will 'deal' with them at a later date. Not sure when but that's the beauty of a list, it will go on one eventually. When I start 'nesting' before our boy gets here. I will look like a mad woman preparing the house to look all good, and then throw him off by not maintaining it! Hehe. It has been nice cause my mom has come over 2 times and "helped" the girls clean their room. It's a battle I just loathe. So I hear her in the girls room giving them the age old lecture I rolled my eyes at for years but these days has a much sweeter ring...' This is unacceptable, You should be listening to mommy and helping her not making messes and leaving them for her to clean. I better not have to come back and see it messy again, you girls, you should know better.' I did smile and giggle to myself, oh how I hated those words around oh 20 years ago, but now they are so wonderful. Funny how that works huh?
Anyway, so the girls are LEARNING about keeping up their room. A task that proves harder to implement as they get older. My arch-Nemesis LAUNDRY has been dragging me down. Man, 5 people can put out a lot of dirty clothes. My idea no one seems to agree with is getting down to 1 pair of pants, undies, socks and a shirt. For some reason no one is on board? What's the deal with that?? :).
As far as the new church goes... it's going awesome. Jas feels really overwhelmed with the whole like "where to start" bit but he's doing a great job of getting together with the board, preaching on Sundays, and managing to still be here at the house in the evenings. Pretty sweet gig! Oh and since we live on church property now, Sunday mornings don't consist of HURRY UP WE GOTTA GO, we just walk across the lawn. Yay for me!

Well I don't have much else to write. Oh except I wish I would've gotten Hope on camera the other day making up a song about gas (like for cars). She was in the back seat singing to a tune I'm sure she mustered up herself "Fred Meyer has gas, Safeway has gas, but Target doesn't have gas...yadayadayada" It was hilarious. She was running out of stores that had gas so she just trailed off. Too funny.

More next time (whenever that happens!)
Kala
OH and here's what happens when a 6 year old gets a camera..some random fun pics since I"m sooo bad about putting pics on here.


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