Moving forward

It is here.... The home study. Next thursday will be our first interview, and apparently one where they will come to our home and it will take two hours. Eek! I've been trying to make lists of everything that needs to be done and I don't even know where to start. I mean have we really lived her 3 and 1/2 years, because it is still not put together!!! I am worried about our crazy dogs the most and hope that bones will last long enough to entertain them, but fairly positive they won't distract them from the fact we have a guest, and nothing could be more exciting to them. Please pray for us as this is the last and to me biggest step to becoming waiting parents.




Life moves forward without Mamaw, sometimes it's surreal, sometimes it's sad, and sometimes it's happy. We have to keep going moving on and doing what was meant for us even if it feels like part of us is missing. Kids are so perfect, and I only wish we could think like they do. They may not completely understand death, but a quote from my five year old nephew "We don't have go be sad, Mamaw is happy in Heaven." So simple, so true. We can appreciate how happy she is and move past our own sadness. I now have a new goal in my life, I should have had such a long time ago, but my new goal is to be as much like her as possible. She impacted so many people in a positive way and I hope I can do that with just 1/10 of the people she did. It was absolutely amazing to see the response we have had, truly indescribable. I am so lucky to have had a living example that was so close to me.