Misleading Title .......

I suppose our blog title is a little misleading these days.  We are done with the adopting part, but adoption will always be a part of our lives.  We will still be blogging updates on our family, but no more major adoption news.  3 kids is it for us!  This is for various reasons ....... hard to fit more therapy appointments into our schedule, Luke is starting 1st grade and has some special "needs" of his own, and we no longer qualify for many countries to adopt from.  Plus, we just finished paying off the last adoption, so we need to rebuild our savings and make some serious progress on retirement and college savings.

We will also be including some things about the new journey we are on, which is for all of us to get healthy.  We just joined our local Y and hubby and I have both joined their "boot camp" class.  They focus on nutrition and exercise, so we are hoping for great results!  I recently completed another "boot camp" and it was wonderful!!!!!!  In 6 weeks, I lost about 10 pounds and several inches.  I'm so glad that we are doing this as a family.

It's funny ...... I know that we are doing exactly what we need to be doing.  When I did the boot camp last month, hubby had band practice on some nights, so we needed to find a babysitter.  Within minutes of asking, I had 2 babysitters available for all the nights!  Then, today in my first class at the Y, the leader paired us up and I ended up with another mama and we have a LOT in common.  Her son and Luke are 3 days apart!  We talked and talked and are excited to have found a new friend.

I hope all of you reading will continue to read about our antics .... seems we always have sort of drama going on!

Summer is Here!

• Luke's last day of Kindergarten was today.  He is very excited about 1st grade!
• Kenzi's palate surgery is scheduled for July 24th.
• This summer, my family will finally get to meet Kenzi.  I'm excited and I know they are, too!
• We have lots of fun stuff planned this summer.  Luke needs structure, so we are working on loosely "planning" each day so that they all know what to expect.
• Jacinda has had some speech therapist developments.
• Her wonderful speech teacher at school will not be returning next year, due to school district budget cuts.  We are very sad, but we hope that the next one will be just what Jacinda needs at that time.
• She hasn't yet started with the private speech therapist.  We are working to get our insurance to approve it.  Our insurance is apparently notorious for being difficult for this type of thing.  Our coverage documents clearly state it is covered, so it's a bit confounding as to why it's taking so long.  Thankfully, the new therapist is very familiar with the process and she is committed to getting it worked out for us.

That's about it from here!