Not enough time for pictures, no time to blog....no time for anything

That title pretty sums up my life these days. So busy. I have given up on any sort of organization to my house. I am strictly sticking to cooking meals, regulating everyone's laundry day, (and finding myself slowly getting more and more of everyone else's mixed back in with mine), quick sweeps for trash that baby Z can get in his mouth, and the quick mad dashes in the case that someone may be coming over for a bit.

Since I haven't been blogging, we have celebrated a 1 yr old's birthday. This week has marked a month that baby T has been in the hospital. We are still awaiting the judges decision on Z's fate. I go from dying to know, not even wanting to think about it. I gave up trying to continue to homeschool through the summer. I plan on starting us back the 2nd week in August. I have been trying hard to still give the kids a fun summer, and the last 2 weeks have been jammed packed with fun. Lots of libary programs...we are signed up at 2, and they are both offering all kinds of fun stuff. Painting, Mosaics, Magicians, Cooking, Zoo Friends...it has been fun. The kids have been checking out books and reading like crazy. Noah is only checking out history biography books, and can tell you all kinds of crazy random facts about our presidents. Leah will get huge stacks of books, and then spend the next 2 days reading all of them. Last I checked, we were nearing 200 chapters in our online reading log for one of our libraries for her. That girl loves to read. Rachel and I have been continuing on with her Hooked On Phonics reading, and has made it halfway through that. She is doing great...I am finding she is almost as easy to teach as Leah. It makes me glad I had 2 girls!

We had a blast at a homeschool fieldtrip downtown last week, and a fun day swimming at the Parker's. You can check a photo of that out here....http://www.thejoyfulchaos.com/the-two-crews/. I have been to see baby T at the hospital almost everyday. This has been a very draining, and also uplifting experience....but I am so ready for him to get back home. It looks like he will still be in for a couple of more weeks. We have seen a couple of dollar movies, and check out the new Heifer Program educational center downtown.

Lot's more....and I think I have slept some in there...that is questionable though, as Z has decided it is a fun thing to wake up at 5 am for no reason, and going back to sleep about the time everyone is getting up. This is after waiting up for Clay to get home, and going to bed around 1 am. Last night was my first step in trying to correct that. I hope tonight goes better. He had his shots today, maybe he will be tired.

I also have heard daily...someone say, "you have your hand's full" or "I don't know how you do it". I mean daily. Especially since I am going up to the hospital. Everyone asks me questions, b/c they are curious b/c I am a foster mom. I don't even know how to answer that. I usually stumble over my words....you would think I would have a whitty comeback by now. I know I am crazy, and super busy all the time, but I can't imagine things any other way. In fact, I kept another foster girl this week just for a night, but wanted to have her longer...she was such a sweetheart. Yes, I do have my hands full....and things do get wild and crazy, but I love them all so much, and my heart feels so full. How do I do it? I just love them, and take care of them. I guess that is just what I need to say. I have several friends with a lot of kids, and to me, it seems normal, so I am always surprised by other people's reactions....and then when I try to look at my life through their eyes, I know I look like a lunatic to them! haha