Our New Adoption!!!!

Tony and I have decided to adopt again. This is something that we have talked about for awhile, but nothing we really thought we would do soon. After we lost our second baby we really started to pray about what God wanted us to do. We thought maybe he wanted us to even be done having and adopting kids. We knew in our hearts that we did not want to be done though. As we sat in church one Sunday, we listened as the entire sermon was on adopting orphans. It was a total God thing!! We knew he was speaking to us. It was literally the night before that we sat there and prayed about what we needed to do.

We then began the process of picking a child. This has been a huge challenge for us. We ended up deciding to pick a child with HIV, and an older child, then we decided to take two!!

So... As of right now we are taking two boy's named Rafferty, and James. They are both from the Ukraine and they are both HIV positive. One of them is 6, and the other is 7. If all goes well we will start the process next week.

Please pray for us on this journey as we find out about the wait of the adoption and the cost, and if they will even let us with having 10 kids already!

We will post pictures when we know for sure and we will give more details as soon as possible!!

Big Apologies!!

I have to start out by saying I AM SO SORRY!!! I am the worse blogger ever. I would not doubt it if I even have people following me anymore!! I used to write a lot, but after we moved to Plano Texas things just got very busy!! There just is not a good excuse, I'm sorry!
Everything here is good. We still have not meet a lot of people so the summer has been a little boring for the kids. We just went back home to San Antonio for the last week and saw all of our friends. That was good, but taking trips now with the 3 babies is so hard. Nessie is still going through her crying stage which now I wonder if she will ever stop doing. She just gets so mad. She tries putting on shoes, or clothes and if she can not do it she just sits there and screams off the top of her lungs!! Lesska is well. She follows me EVERYWHERE i go. Its really cute at times!! She copies everything I do to. She is my little helper. Eli is just a handsome little guy. Eli is mellow. He likes to lay with his blanket everywhere. They all do very well in the car!!
My other kids are adjusting well here. They enjoy the pool. They are in it everyday! Right now that's really all they have. I'm praying after school starts again they will make a lot of friends. I know I will home school at least one of my kids, but we have not really had that talk yet!!
Our biggest news for now is that we are adopting again!! After my miscarriage I got pregnant again, then lost that baby as well. I finally did a lot of testing and found out I have a blood clotting disorder. I would have to take a lot of meds and such to keep the baby. I will have another baby at some point, but for now we feel like God wants us to adopt. We are not sure who yet, but we will post as soon as we know for sure.
I will post some pictures as soon as I get my other computer working! Thanks again

Emd of the year

The end of the year is fast approaching. The kid's are getting really excited about being out of school. Ill be just as excited once I find a nanny. I have been looking for over a month now. So many people say they want the job, then never show up.

The three babies are doing well right now. Eli is almost about to walk. I know he can, he just does not want to. I think he gets around faster by doing his bear crawl. Nessie is still yelling all the time, but I do think she is getting better. Leeska has started going through another strange stage. She has started doing everything opposite of what we tell her. She is just trying to see what she can get away with or not, I think.

We think we have found a church that we all like. I want to give it one more Sunday before we decide for sure. It has a great kids center. They seem to really enjoy it a lot.

As far as making friends, we have not done that yet. I just don't know how to get out there and meet people. There is not alot of activities or anything to go out and meet people. Im hoping once summer comes things will change and maybe more people will start coming out.

Well, Just wanted to keep everybody updated on the kids and how we are adjusting to Plano. We still are not pregnant yet, but we are still trying. So,,, soon enough I hope.

Sorry!!

I have to say I am sorry really fast. I just went back and read a message on my blog from the lady Debbie that I was so upset with. I have to say I respect the fact that she got back on my blog and said she was sorry to me. Debbie if you are still reading, I am sorry for attacking you as well on my blog. I should have known better than to get so upset and say the things that I did. I just took it very personal when you said I adopted kid's to impress people. That would just be way to much work for anyone. Any way's I just wanted to say that I hope you do not delete my blog Debbie. I hope we can just continue from here.

I am sorry for all of my other reader's that have had to read all of this too. Debbie , I understand that we all have our bad day's and say thing's we regret, so Its all forgiven. I am sorry as well!

Better Week

Hello Again,

I am doing much much better this week. I'm a little concerned about Nessie though. Many of you know that the Dr. last week told us that she had MRSA. She has open wounds so she is NOT allowed to go back to school for the rest of this yr.(Right when I was trying to get some alone time) Anyways, I feel bad because I have complained about her screaming for so long. This Dr. thinks this is why. Im mad that the other Dr. in San Antonio NEVER saw this. I guess she said she got this in her orphanage and has carried it with her all this time. Now every scratch any kid gets I have to have it checked. Nessie also bit a teacher this week so they are concerned about that too! How embarrassing huh??

Other than that I am getting around Plano more. I am finding new Dr.s and still trying to find a new church. This is huge for us because that is where we found most of our friends last time. We are praying that God will lead us to a great church this Sunday.

The other babies are OK. They have double ear infections and strep throat that they are slowly passing to each and every other kid in the home, but it could be worse right?

As for me and Tony, so far we have managed to not get sick, and are praying that we don't. I did not end up being pregnant. The Dr said after a pregnancy alot of times you get positives when you are not really pregnant. I was bummed, but over it now. We will start trying again at the end of this month again. The Dr took a lot of blood work to see why I have had 6 miscarriages and called me and said they wanted to see me to talk about the results. They could not tell me over the phone. Soooo... I'm a little anxious to see what they have to say.

I hope everyone has a great weekend. We will be plating grass out front and fixing the swimming pool for the kids to enjoy!! Take care!

Another Week

Thanks to the many people that responded on here and my facebook. I know that what this lady said was said out of jealously. I'm over it now. I just wanted to post again and try to post of pictures of the babies. This past week we have celebrated 2 birthdays. Nessie turned 3, and Leeska turned 4. It really made me sit back and think about where they would be had we not adopted them. I'm hoping another family would have stepped up, but what of they had not. I know they said they would go to an institution. How awful would that be!! I just can not imagine!! It makes me hug on my sweet babies so much. They are so good and so loving. They bring so much happiness to us. Yes, Nessie still yells all the time and we are trying to deal with that. In fact we have a teacher, more like a therapist that comes over 2 hrs a week now to try to help her sign. They think the reason she yells all the time is because she has no idea how to talk. I think so far it is helping her.

Since we have moved into our new home the babies have started a new school with wonderful teachers. Eli's teacher cries when I pick him up because she loves him so much. She said she can see such a change in him already in the 3 weeks they have been here, I must say I have too. The school is really helping them.

As for Leeska, she is always melting there hearts. Leeska is always very friendly with everyone and smiling and kissing everyone.

I have really been taking a good look in from the outside lately and I do see what others may see. Yes, It may look like we have to many kids and that we are a very large family, but I also hope people see that all the kids are so happy. We are always goofing around and laughing. The babies have so many brothers and sisters that there is always someone there to play with them. So I guess it does not matter what others may see. I should not care as long as I know we are all truly happy.

It has been a really good week with all the birthdays. We have had a great time celebrating!! Thanks so much for reading my blog, and I hope you have a happy week! Excuse the makeup Leeska had on in her picture!!

Hello !

Well Im a little stunned right now about the last post I had on my blog. Any of you may feel free to go back and read it. I have read it to my hubby and a few friends and they are all shocked that a total stranger would write anything so hateful to someone they do not know. That is the point of a blog you read them to get to know them, but you don't just slam them for things you do not understand. I wanted everyone to know I was pregnant and what I was going through because that is the type of person I am. I like people to know these things. Then when I lost that baby I got a lot of support and did not have to do it alone. I guess this lady Debbie would enjoy to do it alone if it happened to her. Sorry, not me. Like I have said many times before this is a place for me to write about how I feel. Yes there are many times when I complain, but there are just as many good times to share with you as well. This lady Debbie can not tell me that she does not have bad times in her life. Just because I have bad times does not mean that I should not adopt more kids. She also stated that I adopt for the attention. OK You got me. Yeah, I spend all that money and time just for the attention. Are you crazy lady!! Yo really sound like you have alot going on in your life that you are struggling with and you are taking it out on me and my blog. I am not stressed out because I have to many kids. Its actually very nice. The kids all help and they all get along and have each other to play with. There is never a dull moment in this house. I would never never re-do anything I have done. This lady posting this non-sense has made me very happy actually because it made me realize just how happy I really am with all of my children and how happy I am that I am once again pregnant!! Yes Miss. Debbie Downer I said it if that's OK with you. I AM PREGNANT!!! I'm sorry you don't like me to announce this because its very early, but Im not like you you see.. I am very thankful for EVERYTHING God gives me. I'm sooo thankful that I want to shout it from the roof tops. I love my family, I love my life, and I love my God. I only wish I could say the same for you Miss .Debbie.

Don't get on some one's blog you don't even know and Judge them and slam them the way you did. You know nothing about me. The fact that you said the thing you said makes you sound like a very lonely, cold, butter person. Yes, I write about times when I'm stressed and when I want to pull my hair out. EVERYONE does. Please find me one blog that has not written about bad times in their life. Are you going to go judge them too and write crap all over their blog about what bad parents they are too!! By the way, where is your kid right now, or when you were blogging me?? Does that ,make you Bad parent because you took 5 minutes away from them to write. What non-sense!!

Well I was going to blog today about my house and how much I love this place, but this lady really made me very angry, but forget about her.

I live in Plano now. I will leave pictures of the house. I really love it here. I do miss my friends, but I am making new ones fast here. The kids are loving their new school. The 3 babies started school this week. It was so cute to see them get on their new bus with their new school bags. They really like school. There teachers love them so much and that helps alot.

We did end up getting pregnant again, but I am very early so not much to post about at this time. They took alot of blood to see why I keep having miscarriages. As I said before that made this lady so mad. I will adopt more. What some people do not understand is that God has called me to do this. I knew from a very young age that this is the life I had. I was very blessed to find a hubby that felt the same way. So, we will adopt more kids. Not now, but after the new baby is walking we will start again. I DON'T HAVE A LIMIT DEBBIE!! I never will. When I feel like I have enough then I will know that God is telling me to stop. As for now I have the space, I have the time, I have the money , and I have all the love in the world to give these children . If anyone where to ask my kids if they were happy I know without a doubt what they would say and that's all I need to know.

So, Debbie Thank you. Thank you for making me stop and really think about my life and how grateful I am, and how much I love my family, and how excited I am to have a lot more kids int he future. ( Sorry about the picture of the AC. That was an accident I could not delete)