Things are quiet this afternoon. Winston is asleep at my feet, Grandmother is doing her laps back and forth on the porch and Rob is downstairs on the couch recuperating from a softball injury he sustained during last Monday night’s game. Seems he got a little overzealous in an attempt to make one of his diving plays and wound up hitting the rock hard Georgia clay on his way down, cracking his rib in the process. So needless to say he’s been in some intense pain for the last few days, so it’s good that we have this long holiday weekend for him to get some much needed rest. He just had to go through one of those realizations that we all must experience at some point. Even though we may feel in our hearts and minds that we can play sports like 20-year-olds, our bodies will always let us know otherwise. In my case, it's usually bruises sustained from bumping into furniture or tripping down stairs. Not much you can do except pick yourself up, hold your head up high, put a smile on your face and keep on moving forward through this journey called life.
Last week, we turned in our money to cover the airfare for Olegs’ & Kristine’s trip from Latvia, which came to about $2,300.00. The total fee to host them is $3,120.00 so airfare makes up the bulk of the hosting fees. The children now know that they are coming and have most likely seen a picture of us. We can’t help but wonder what they must be thinking about taking this huge trip to the United States. We’re allowed to write to them now, so Rob and I plan to send them a letter and some fun pictures of us with the animals. One of our friends let us borrow her Latvian picture dictionary so we could make flash cards to help the children with their English. We also found out about a neat website where you can actually listen to the pronunciation of Latvian words. In addition to the flash cards, we’re gonna also stock up on post-it notes so we can label things around the house.
This Wednesday we’ll have our second home study visit from our social worker. During this meeting, she’s supposed to interview Rob and me separately just to talk more about our individual backgrounds and our plans for raising our children. Thankfully, our social worker is a super nice person and we have nothing to hide so we’re not concerned. We’re still working on gathering some more of the paperwork she’ll need. Rob and I already got our medical reports completed, but now we're waiting for Grandmother's doctor to complete hers. I dropped Grandmother’s form off at her doctor’s office last week and they had the nerve to tell me that their office charges $25.00 to fill out a form!!!! I’m hoping they’ll find it in their hearts to waive this fee. The lady who handles the form processing is gonna see what she can do to help us out. Then there are the employment letters we need to get. I have to get one from my company and then Rob will have to have our accountant do one for him since he is self-employed. They just have to say how long we've been at our jobs, what our positions are and how much we make. These things aren’t necessarily difficult. It just takes time to gather certain documents.
In the next couple of weeks we’re gonna get back to focusing on our fundraising efforts. Our garage is overflowing with items we plan to sell at our next garage sale. Looks like our next garage/bake sale fundraiser will be on June 10th or 17th. We'll post the exact date once we know for sure. I think we’ve sufficiently recovered from the last sale so we’re ready to do it again. So many of you have already donated items for us to sell and still more of you have said you’ll be dropping things off!! We can’t thank you enough!! We'll be needing a bunch of tables this time, so if any of you have tables you wouldn't mind loaning us for the sale, please let us know. Also, I can’t forget to thank those of you who placed Mary Kay orders this past week so we can continue to add those profits to our adoption fund.
That’s about it for now. Hope you all enjoy the beautiful Memorial Day weekend and don't forget to fly your flags tomorrow in support of our veterans!
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