Today, we got a call from Samantha’s case worker down in Massachusetts. He got the message that we want to go forward with the disclosure meeting. He will read over our home study and get back to us soon. I guess there are a couple of families that are interested in her, so he wants to pick out the one most suitable. Oh, I do hope it is us that he picks.

Pork and Chop are set to go to the butcher on Saturday. We have borrowed a crate, and a truck from neighbors. We are trading them for a pound of ham, and some eggs. A cheap trade I think.
Unless we get kids in the house soon (and lots of them), I don’t think we will be able to eat all the meat from the pigs this winter. We will get  close to 300 pounds of ham, bacon, and pork. That is a lot of meat for just the two of us. At this rate, we may not have to get pigs again next year.

Tiera had an ultrasound today, and we were invited to go to get to see our grand child for the first time.
It was an awe inspiring event. There she was up on the screen with her little fingers, and her itty bitty toes. She even sucked her thumb for a moment. The best picture they got of her was when she actually put up her tiny little arm, and made the peace symbol. That was just awesome.

 The phone rang.
It was the garage on the other end of the line. The man spoke softly as he gave her the news of her beloved mini-van. “Sorry,” he said. “There really wasn’t much we could do to save it.”
As Taps played softly …in the distance, she knew the van would want her to move on. They had alot of fun together, but it was time to move on to her new car…

Being that our car is probably on it’s last legs, we decided to purchase a new one. We went to one car lot, and test drove a couple of SUV’s. Each one seemed to have an issue, and decided to hold out.
On the way home, we decided to get some lunch. As we sat in the car having a picnic, we thought about going over to see Bruce to see if he had found anything for us.  We decided while we were already in town, we might as well go see him.
At first, he said he didn’t have anything. We had told him a few weeks ago to keep his eye out for a mini-van for us. Then he told us about a great deal on a Buick Century. We told him we would take a look at it.
The moment I saw it, I knew it was ours…it was maroon. For some odd reason, I like maroon cars. As far back as I can remember I have had a maroon car.
We took it for a drive, and told him we would be back in town tomorrow. We were going to think on it overnight. We got out to the car, started the loaner. We both knew it was a great deal. We shut off the car and went back in and bought it.

While on the phone today, the case worker for the sibling group of 9 called back. I immediatley called her right back, and of course got the voice mail.
We intentionally stayed off the phone for the next hour. By a little after 4, we figured she must have gone home for the day, and we went to the library.
Wouldn’t you know, we missed her calling back by just 15 minutes.
So, we again left her a message letting her know to call in the morning. She is sure to get us then.
Oh, I can’t wait to find out more.

If with 6 you get egg roll, what would you get with 9?
Yesterday, we learned of a sibling group of 9 that was is need of a home, and we called first thing this morning. We are anxiously awaiting the return call to learn more about them.
We do hope they call back soon.

This morning we got up at 4:30 to go to the Adoption Option down at Jordan’s Furniture in Reading, MA. After all the animals were fed and watered (us included) we hit the road about 6:30.
We made good time. Being that it was a Sunday, there was hardly any traffic. We arrived in about 2 hours.
We signed in, got our name tags, and began the journey around “Bean Town”. I must say that “Bean Town” sounded more like a night club than an adoption party. It was hard to hear anything. It was not what we had expected at all.
We met with most of the area caseworkers. We even got to meet the girl and boy we are interested in. It was nice to get to see them in person.
Other than getting to talk face to face with several case workers, we thought the party was way to loud, to much confusion, and it was not a good situation where you could actually interact with the children and get to know them a little.
Hopefully, the next party is a bit more low key.

Six cords of wood doesn’t sound like much, until you go to stack it.
Luckily, Ed and Peggy gave us a hand. We got most of it stacked, with just about half left to go. The rest will be stacked up by the house when the flower bed has died off.
It was nice to have someone else to cook for. They always like my “creative” side of cooking. Ed always has to have the recipe…only I don’t usually write them down. Maybe I should. Maybe I should do a cook book.

With camper in tow, today my in-laws came for a visit. Out pops Cricket (their Cocker Spaniel), and the cat runs for the barn. Little does he know that she has no interest in chasing him. She just wants to run through the fields of corn.
They will be here a week or so, and we will have a nice visit.