Back to Normal...Whatever that means

We had quite the nine days in Utah. Lagoon and Bear Lake and lots of time with cousins. It was so amazing and relaxing. I was watching Lee with his cousins and feeling a bit jealous that I never had that relationship with my cousins. At Bear Lake there were ten kids all nine and under. I usually hate camping but it was great. Lee's cousins go every year and we are considering making it an annual trip as well. Now we are buried in dirty laundry that smells like a camp fire. I am now back to decluttering and spend today working on the kids dressers. Tomorrow we will finish all the dressers (excluding Lee's)

Life is good. I work 60 hours this week and I really would rather just work the 20 at the hospital and not CPS. I applied for a new job. We will see how it works out. I have started looking for ways to cut back. We have one debt that is driving me insane. I need to get rid of it. Then we will be able to focus on student loans. Now that I am (sort of) done with school I am hoping to pick up a counseling client or facilitate a group. There is so much I want to do with my degree. But for the present I have four adoptions to get done before the end of the month and pick an adoptive home for another child. Plus a dad that is out of jail who would like to see his daughter one final time (gag).

I love working with the kids and I love adoptions but it is all getting old.

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Here is what we have been up to for the past couple of weekends, Jake had his first soccer game. Shawn came to visit. Lee got a new RC truck that he loves and so do the kids. They spend the weekend chasing the truck which totally wore them out. We did some gardening. Victoria and I went to Weiser to a baptism of one of my previous foster kids. It was so great to see the family again. I really miss seeing them on a monthly basis. We played newspaper tag with Shawn and Demitri. Grandma Gina and Grandpa Don stopped by for a little while on their way home. Oh yea and the primary had a bug day where the kids dressed up like bugs. Victoria was a butterfly and Jake was a bee. I have four more days left of the semester. Lee is in Kamiah this week to spend some time with Shawn before basic as well as some other things.

Time to dust this off

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A Little COVID Update

SO what have been up to. Lots of nothing COVID sent me into a huge mess of depression and anxiety that I have slowly been getting through thanks to medication. The medications have made me a much better mom and wife. We spent a week with Lee's family at his family reunion last week. There was so many good fun times but there was also some frustration where Lee and I felt like we were the built in babysitters and people kept just leaving their children with us. I tried to be compassionate but sometimes it is hard. We are thankful for all the great memories we had, older kids got to go to Lagoon with their cousins which was fabulous despite snide comments about how much we make and what we can afford. We are thankful for Lee's brother and family hosting and always for the generosity of Lee's dad and Gina. And Lee's cousin took amazing pictures Jake got his permit and overall isn't such a bad driver just inexperienced. Marching band sort of kind of was cance...

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