Sweet Life in the City

We have had a great day celebrating Jeremy. Words cannot begin to describe what a wonderful husband and daddy Jeremy is to us. I am very thankful that in our unique journey to become parents that we have been a great team. I am thankful for how hard Jeremy works and even at the end of a long day he takes the time to play catch with Sam or play on the Wii with the girls and read with the kids. We are very blessed to call him ours. I do have to admit that I had a little bit of a break down this morning during church. You know when you let a few tears run out and then all of a sudden you are crying and you can't stop crying and then you realize that you are just crying and you can't tell anyone why you are crying? Samuel was extremely worried about why I was crying but the more he asked me why I was crying the worse it got! A week from today I am supposed to take the girls down to Camp Hope for the week. We have been planning on going for several months. A few weeks ago Jeremy...

"It's night time in Korea." This phrase was said or thought many times in our adoption processes. Those five words meant that work at the agency and work at the Korean government would not be taking place anymore that day. Nothing was being done to bring our babies home. During the week we would also know that after a certain time we would not be hearing any news from our agency in MI and we knew once the mailman came we would no longer be stalking him or our mailbox. There would be a few hours a day that we would just let the worry go because we knew nothing beneficial for our adoption would be going on. Then night time in the USA would fall and every adoptive parent is up through the night praying that as business opens for the day that their babies paperwork will move to the top of the pile or that the approval we are waiting on will finally be approved or we think more about the milestones and every day activity that we are missing. The end of business day comes on Fr...

We finally made it to the last day of school! This school year went pretty fast even though there were times (like the month of March) that it felt like this day would never come. Chloe was up early ready to go, but Samuel and Emma were not easy to get moving this morning. Emma said that in honor of the last day of school we should just stay home :). They brought every thing home yesterday, so I am not sure what they did this morning. This afternoon they all have class parties so their day should go pretty quickly. Although I am eager to pick them up at 3:30, I am trying to enjoy my last day of a quiet house, doing chores in silence, and enjoying my lunch without interruptions. I had to get some groceries this morning and I am going to have to get a new routine this summer so I do not have to take the kids with me to get groceries. I stocked up for the week hoping that I do not have to take them to the store this week, even though I have concluded that I do not care for grocery shoppin...

The kids woke up this morning bouncing off the walls excited about field day at school today and the anticipation of tomorrow being the last day of school. It was really cloudy this morning and when we got to the school it started to pour down rain! Thankfully for the kids (and the teachers) the rain moved out about 8:45 and it looks like field day will still be going on. I feel a little guilty not going to field day, but I learned last year that hundreds of kids running around outside at the end of the school year with little structure is not something I enjoy. In fact it drives me crazy! The kids are at an age that they would maybe like me to be there, but are totally fine if I do not go. My goal for today is to get the basement back together and get caught up on laundry. So I mentioned the other day that I was hesitant about posting our situation with Jeremy's job. One of the reasons I was hesitant because I feel like some people will judge our decision to buy a house. Just th...

Our plan Monday night was to have a great evening hanging out as a family and cheering on the Blackhawks in game 6 of the Stanley Cup Finals. The weather had other plans. We knew we had a place in our basement that sometimes leaks when it rains. We had lived here about two weeks when we first noticed some water coming in the basement after a few hours of rainfall. We had some guys come out and they dug up the ground outside where the water was coming in and sealed up the side of the house with tar and whatever else was needed to seal the outside wall.The weeks following them "fixing" the leak it rained several times and the first few times no leaks. The third time it rained we once again had water. It is not a lot of water and we can manage it by putting a towel down when it rains and once again it doesn't leak every time it rains. It is leaking at the downspout outside so Jeremy is going to try and reroute the water to see if that helps. Anyway, while we were gone this p...

I guess you have noticed that I took an extended break from blogging. There have been several times the last few months that I had ever intention of sitting down and catching you up on our life, but it just did not happen. We have been in our house 3 months and we are LOVING it! It is so nice to come home now. It has added extra housework, but I actually do not mind cleaning because it is so easy to clean and it actually looks clean after I have spent the time cleaning. I have come to realize how dire my laundry situation was in the apartment now that I can do laundry whenever I need or want to. I still hate folding socks, so not everything has changed :). We have been busy with kid's activities and we have had some difficult situations that we have had to work through with all three kids over the last few weeks. Our kids are in a new stage of their life (especially Samuel) and we are learning new ways to parent. The kids have a busy last week of school (yes, we are still in school...