hump day

Hump day has a whole new meaning for me these days and Friday an even more new meaning because in first grade we have FUN FRIDAY and I can't wait for fun Friday.  I love this class. I feel so attached already it's crazy.  How can it happen so fast. I go to sleep thinking about them and wake up thinking about them. They are the most street smart kids I have ever met!   I love my cooperating teacher and the school is great but I can't help but feel the anticipation of 61/2 weeks to go in this placement  of first grade and 8 in the next  3rd grade and then graduation day!!!  But until now celebrating hump day can help get me through.
I wish I could just go to school and teach them but I'm loaded down with mounds of homework from the university. It's overload  every night I am playing catch up to all this crazy stuff due so I've pretty much had to take everything out of my life that I don't have to have except blake's football games and adoption classes.

On a different note adoption classes are going pretty smooth. I am anxious to move on to the next level but I also know until the homestudy is complete we can't really do anything. We have our first home visit next week. I feel a little anxious like I need to clean everything!  I can't help but wonder who will be joining our family. Is it a baby, toddler, child, first grader... it's so hard for me to be patient. But I realize as we prepare and pray for the heart of the child we will be bringing into our home to be ready for our family that all things will happen in the Lord's timing and I just have to be patient. It's so weird to me that I can feel so much love for someone I don't have or don't even know anything about really.  When I was carrying our babies I grew such  a love because it was a sacrifice throwing up everyday and hurting and getting as big as an elephant but this is a different sacrifice and the love feels so much the same the only thing is not knowing if it's going to be 1 year-2 years-9 months-3 month.

Updates for family-Caroline loving 3rd grade and her new school starting up dance again next week at a new studio.
Leah-she has made a great connection with middle school-I'm so grateful for good teachers. She starts young women in 17 days but has began to be invited to Wed. night activities she is lovin it.
Andrew-back to work at the ballpark. Exhausted from late nights and early morning seminary and tons of honors class homework.
Blake-got his first real girl friend!(uh oh) Almost 16-practicing driving but not enough because he's never home. Between football, scouts, guitar lessons, homework, church  and a social life we never see this boy.