Jumping a Mountain with an 8 Ft Stick...

So this is to be the continuation finally of my previous post. for those of you who do not know yet, well lets just start at the beginning shall we. 2 months ago we were pregnant. We were a little over a month along, when we lost our baby. It was one of the most devistating things I have ever gone through, however I do not want you to feel pity in your hearts for us. please. God has all the answers to all the questions we ever will ask him, we may not know why things like this happen, but I do know that I am going to make this experience in my life as positive as I can, and one day I am going to meet that precious baby of ours in heaven, but for now that little guy is going to hang out with God. About three days after the miscarriage, this guy Chris called me from the New Jersey Foster / Adoption Agency called me, and asked me if we were still interested in doing foster adoption. ( I had requested information from them) I told him we were, and so he asked if he could come over the next day and meet with us, and give us information. So the next day he came, and gave us more information than my mind could handle, so it was a good thing that everything was written down on paper. We thought and prayed about it and realized we still wanted to do it, so then we met with our case worker Lisette about two weeks later, and we started filling out paper work and telling her all about us. Last week we started our "parenting" classes. Its not really about parenting though, its about what kinds of situations kids go through, how to deal with them and so forth. we have the classes twice a week, on tuesdays and thursdays for three hours. the classes are alot of fun and are also really informative. I think that when we walked into that class room last week tuesday, we shocked about everybody when they realized first how young we were, and second that we WANTED to do this out of our own free will. Because everyone else in the class is there because they have family members in their home that they are fostering right now. Honestly, the people in the class can be so negative at some points, which frustrates me to no end, but then at the same time, I know that this is a different form of patience that the Lord wants me to work on. So I am marching forward.. I also may have told a few of you that I really wanted to adopt a baby girl named Patience. Well I was very sad to discover on tuesday that, that precious little Patience is getting adopted already. She is an African American baby and she has the brightest red curliest hair you have ever seen.. I hope that she has a really good life ahead of her. I cant wait to meet the kids that will be coming into our home, and may possibly become a part of our family!!!!! I am sooo excited! Now some of you may think we decided to do this becasue we lost our baby, but no we will continue to wait patiently on the Lord, knowing that he will bless us with our own children. I also have gotten involved in the church too. I am going to be a counselor/leader for a girls club called Explorer Girls. Its kicking off on the 27th of this month. So Im excited for that to start. Last Sunday I met Patience' s foster parents in church. Milly and Paul are very nice people. They also happen to live on the Coast Guard Base, and they are the only family on base who are foster parents until we get licensed. So its was so exciting to know that there is another Christian family on base. You have no idea, how weird it is to live beside people who drink over the weekend as a form of "fun" .. it can get a bit noisy sometimes...and the language!!! ...O.k. Im done..Oh and the other thing, I got a job at a yarn store ...yes that yarn store I really disliked...I still will only be ordering yarn from UnWind in Florida, because Ellen is such a great lady and I would still rather her have my business than the "other" store.... Oh and so guess what! My Mum-in-law started a little blog of her own which you absolutely must check out and comment on. It is so funny and for those of you who dont knit, you will get a sense of the secret world of the knitting life....its not always knits and purls...its a true story about that hate love relationships with YO's and Decreases.....www.knittybitty1.blogspot.com or in my links under KnitBit or something knittingish or momish in it... Well I must continue to organize the house as the "season of guests" approaches...oh and by the way, Ben and Jerry's Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream is a very scrumptious little treat...dont worry mom Im on the run an extra 10 tommorow!