Welcome to the family..............

It is true, I have not posted much lately. Mostly, this was due to Colin's prolonged absence during his training, but the past few days, it has been about some impending additions to our family.

The Burmese foster care program had been delayed. So, although we became licensed foster family, due the uncertainty, we weren't anticipating a placement any time soon. So in the meantime, our adoption network had led us to hosting a foreign exchange student from China. Her name is Sunny and she is due to arrive in August to attend our local high school. We are very excited to have her stay with us.

In the meantime, in the past couple of days, we were called by our foster agency. The first question they asked me was how many foster children can you handle? The answer........only one at this time. Gulp.....only one. So we don't know exactly when he is arriving (but probably fairly soon), we do know that he is 16 years old and speaks little or no English. The recent Cyclone in Myanmar has created an urgent need to place the existing children in the refugee resettlement program. This has led to an urgent need in our family to spring clean, reorganize and reallocate the toys in our house. The kids just lost their private playroom but it was successfully integrated into our Rec room and they are actually really excited about it. Thank goodness we have five bedrooms in our house, and it seems we need every one of them.

Things are going to get very interesting around here.......... :) as if they weren't interesting enough....ha, ha, ha, ha....................