Waiting (not so) Patiently

It's been almost 3 weeks since we mailed our paperwork to the USCIS office in Dallas. Still waiting for fingerprint appointments. I was hoping for something in the mail today, but it didn't come.

The kids are going to try cyber school this year. We've been cutting costs every way we can, and short of sending them to public school, we've decided cyber school would be a good thing to try. We tried a Christian-based online school last year, and it didn't work out at all! We were so disappointed, but after only a week I couldn't deal with all the crying (me!) They had to type everything, and being 8 and 9 years old, they could only hunt and peck and it was very frustrating being behind after only 3 days. So we sent them back to the Christian school. Anyway, we got a desk for Jerremy at a yard sale over the weekend. Their books for cyber school came last week and their computers were delivered Monday. Praying for a great school year.

We are getting an exchange student! Ran is a 15 year old boy from China! He will be here in a few weeks and will go to school at the Christian school. We're hoping to learn some key phrases in Chinese that will help Winn transition to our family. Maybe Ran will even still be here when Winn gets home and we would have an interpreter!

I haven't baked a gob cake in almost 2 weeks! I'm not complaining. I was so busy with work and baking that I was getting pretty stressed, so until my second part-time job is over in November, I'm not going to push the gob cakes. Once that's over, I hope to be baking up a storm, including some pumpkin spice gob cakes!

Marlee's birthday was yesterday. I can't believe she's 20 already! We got to skype with her and Russell last night. It was so good to be able to at least see her on her special day. Kendall and Brandon are at the beach. They stopped at Marlee and Russell's on the way there for a few days. It makes me so happy to have my girls spending precious time together and loving it! As kids they didn't get along much, so to see them as adults wanting to spend time with each other is a great blessing!

Off to work on yardsale stuff!