It had been a while! I have been slacking in the blogging duties. I have been super busy and feel like i am going crazy sometimes and so it hasnt even crossed my mind that i am way past due for another blog entry. So here it goes finally
Mike has been finishing up his one last lingering class to finish his bachelors degree. He has one test left and then he is done. Thank goodness too! It seems like this class is taking forever. He has to wait a long time for each of his assignments to get graded so that is what is holding him up so much. He has been working hard and playing harder. He starts doing home health again next week! That will be awesome to have some extra money coming in to pay off student loans! After all... that is our goal for the year. We have cut down all of our extra spending and are putting every last dime we have into student loans. We hope to have it paid off by march of next year! It is going to be a super hard year but it will be SOOO nice to be free from that debt! Then all we will have left is our house and we plan to have that paid off in 10 years! Mike is so proud of himself to have a full time job and a house and a family and hopefully have it all paid off in the near future! He is such a hard worker to be able to get all of that done and I am so proud of him!
Maeli is growing and playing lots! She has been learning colors and numbers and she is a super smart kid. We enjoy our learning time each day and we especially enjoy our cuddle time to watch "Elmo" That she is always asking to watch! She is an independent and strong willed little girl who is starting her terrible twos with vigor! She has also been potty training and often asks to go potty all by herself and will actually go on the potty! We are so proud of her! But she has to have someone keeping a close eye on her at all times or else the cat ends up colored pink with markers and so does everything else she can make a little prettier with her coloring skills!
I have been super busy with all of my daily tasks that need to get done. Being a stay at home mom is a hard job! I try to keep up on all of the house chores while keeping up with Maeli too. We have fun together though! I also try to take care of myself too so we go to the gym with a friend for an hour most days and I have been loving it! Maeli does great in the child watch at the gym too! I have been doing classes and running the few days a week i dont do classes. I am signing up for my first race this summer! I am running an all womens 5K race with some friends and I am so excited about it. I have never been a runner so this is a HUGE accomplishment for me! I also just got a new calling to the cub scouts that seems like its been taking tons of time. It is like a part time job between all of the trainings and meetings! But the gal that I teach with is super fun so we are starting to enjoy ourselves with that as much as possible. I am sure once we get the hang of it all we will love the fun activities and goofy boys!
On a side note... Mike and I have applied for foster care in the state of Idaho and have been busy getting all of the requirements met with that. We start our PRIDE classes in April and then a homestudy after that. We should have kids this summer I am thinking. We are very excited to take that on and hopefully make an impact on some kids' lives. The reason we decided to do this is because when we bought our house, we both had this overwhelming feeling that our house would not old be a safe place for us but it would also be a refuge for people who really needed it. And I have had this undeniable call to foster care and I am so excited about it. I am super nervous about it at the same time and wonder if i am fit to take on the emotional challenges of it... but a quote always comes to mind when i start questioning it. I have no idea who said it but it goes like this " Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved." It is so true that my doubts and situations that i may have to deal with are nothing in comparison to the importance of these kids being loved.
Well that is pretty much all that is going on! We are super busy and having tons of fun at the same time! We cant wait for summer and for all the fun we are gonna have outside!! Hope you all are doing well! We love you all and miss ya bunches!!
