Softball days

Hello again!

Like my new and improved blog? I changed quite a few things. It's more me now. However you can explain that.

Anyway, I am really enjoying softball at P.E.
We're doing fastpitch. Well, it's not really fastpitch, we're not doing the whole windmill throw or anything but it's really fun. I hit a ball to deep center field today, I was so proud of myself. Too bad they caught it. It was still pretty cool though. I'm also one of the pitchers this year. I didn't pitch that well today though. Usually I do ok but I guess I was just having an off day . :)
I got hit with the ball, again, on my shin. It didn't hurt as bad as last time but I'll for sure have a nice looking bruise.
Brandon had a softball game today too. He plays slowpitch with our church's team. He did really well, we were all so proud of him! :) He's turning 19 tomorrow! He's so old! I'll post what I got him on Friday. He's gonna love it!

Anyway, it's kinda late and I get up with our 6 month old foster baby J early in the morning so I better go. By the way, he's going to grandparents in a couple weeks. :( N is doing fine and is starting to attach to us. We're all praying that she can understand more about what's going on and know that a whole lot of people love her. We tell her everyday that we do.

~Brianna

Under Consruction

Well, for those of you that read my blog-all two of you:)-I am changing some things and putting up so new things so my blog is currently under construction. Only for like a day or two though so come back!

By the way I would like to thank Brooke who is helping me change my blog! Brooke you're awesome!

Rambling

Uhhh, I've been so busy lately, I haven't had time to post!

We still have the little boy J, for the time being anyway, I guess they're looking at some grandparents, so his time with us might be shorter then we all had hoped.
N, the 7 year old little girl we have, is settling in very nicely with us and we are blessed that she gets to be with us even for a short time. It makes us feel happy when we think about N. Her story is going to end good. She's not going back to abusive parents, she's not being shoved around to family members that don't want her. She's going to a loving aunt that does want her. We will all miss her when she goes though.

Anyway, I've gotten on a little more of a schedule lately. I'm looking at all the things I need to do for school, and some of things I don't need to do, and narrowing them down.

I'm debating two things, I mean what I want to do when I graduate, which isn't all that far away really, I want to work with children, I love playing and teaching kids, and I love to baby sit. I either want to be a social worker, or get a music degree and teach piano lessons out of my home. I actually am already teaching piano lessons. I started a new student last Friday. I haven't taught in a while, and I forgot how much I loved it. I'd love to get more students soon.

I'm also starting lessons with a new piano teacher in a couple of weeks. I'm very excited about that.

The choir on Sunday went well. We have another performance on May 18th.

Well, I guess I'm done rambling. I need to go put my clothes in the dryer for P.E., were finally on softball. I can prove it too, I've got about a billion bruises up and down my legs from getting hit with balls so many times. I swear there's a big bullseye somewhere on me.

~Brianna

*Cough* *Cough*

Well, I still have a horrible cough(hence the picture).
So at night when it's realy bad, my mom makes me choke down this horrible tasting cough syrup. It tastes like battery acid. Not that I've tasted battery acid before-I haven't-but I'm sure that the taste of this kind of cough syrup and the taste of battery acid, aren't that different.

Anyway, we have a new little girl, N. She's 7 years old and was only supposed to be an emergency placement for a few days while something was worked out with her other foster home. And then we were called today by one of her social workers and found out she gets to be with us now! We are all very happy, she is so sweet and very, very nice. She has an Aunt that's adopting her who lives in Tennessee, but she won't get her till her next court date in June because the Aunt wants her to finish school.

Little J(the 5 month old baby boy we got last week),is settling very nicely in our house. He just started laughing. It's so cute when you make funny faces at him he crinkle his eyes up and starts giggling! Oh yeah, and yesterday, he threw his first temper tantrum. At 5 months old!

Uhh, it's taken me a long time to post this, I keep coughing and blowing my nose so I'm making all sorts of typos(thank God for spell check!).

Anyway, we have church choir practice later. We're singing "Praise to the Lord the Almighty" for the 5th year anniversary celebration the church is having on Sunday. I'm actually playing the piano for the choir.

I gotta go,Cya!

*cough* cough*

Yeah!!!!!

We got a baby!!!! A boy!!!!
We finally got called on a baby, we went and picked him up on Tuesday and brought him home. He's 5 months old and is absolutely adorable!:)
As always we don't know how long he'll be with us, the social worker said there might be some relatives who could maybe get him, they're not sure though, and it could be at least a month till they work some things out.
It's really sad though, he's got some kind of neurological problem and he doesn't see that well. He'll sit with his hand in front of his face for a really long time like he can't find his mouth and his eyes go in different directions and he has a hard time focusing on anything. So he's got some doctor's visits coming up to see if they can find out what's wrong.

D's mom finally called us. Actually J, D's sister who we also had in our home called and asked if we could come pick up D because she was asking for my mom. So we went and got her on Thursday night and we'll have her through tomorrow(Sunday) afternoon. so, basically D's mom wants a break from a wild almost two year old and so she just casually asks us if we can take her for the weekend. We cherish the time we have with her though. We're just all praying that her mom will continue to let us see her.

Today we were babysitting some friends kids. We had a lot of fun. Well, except when I was cutting a sandwich in half for lunch and I sliced my finger(ouch!). I had no idea how much blood was in the top of a finger. Now I know. Although I would have liked to have been without the hands-on science lesson(literally).

I was sick a few days ago with a really bad head cold:(. Every time I got up it was like a symphony of trombones and tubas were going off inside my head. Not fun.
Now my throat is so raw from all the coughing that my voice is all scratchy sounding, and it doesn't really feel good to talk. According to my family I should just stop talking altogether. For the sake of healing they say( yeah right).

Anyway, it also hurts to type with the top of my slit finger(I'm basically falling apart), so I better go before I hurt myself anymore. I'm dangerous you know.

~Brianna

Pictures!!

As I'm sure you can tell, I finally have pictures!
Once Brooke showed me how to do it, it wasn't that hard.
Anyway, this picture is of our dog, Chessie.
On Sunday she got attacked by a cat, and the cat tore her tendon so yesterday my mom took her to the vet and she had to have surgery. :(
So today she came home with a cone around her neck(don't worry, I'll put some pictures up!),and she has bandages on her legs where she got IVs .

Anyway, Brooke's got a pretty bad head cold and I've got a sore throat, and yesterday at P.E., I got beamed in the leg with a softball. Yeah, it hurt. I have a big bruise and I can feel the pain all the way into my foot! So, basically everyone is falling apart!

Well, I haven't posted for a while. I haven't really been to busy, I haven't been sick, I haven't forgotten. I basically just couldn't. We lost a baby last week. Besides losing D this was the hardest loss we've ever had. It was a 5 day old baby boy, no parents, and no family.
He was a long term to adoption placement. The phone rang we had our hopes up, started making plans, including a name, he had none, and the next day to make a long, complicated, and sad story short, we weren't listed in the county computer as an adoptive ready home. Our social worker didn't know we were an adoptive home, we are, we have all the paperwork we need to adopt a child, we weren't listed as that, so they placed the little boy with someone else.

We just pray that the family that the family the baby is with will love and cherish him, and raise him to know the Lord as we would have done.

So we picked names, talked about how excited we were to finally get a boy, one that we could keep no less, and then we found out God had other plans.

And well, to add to it all, D's mom hasn't been returning our calls, and we don't know why, we just are praying that she will call and everything will be ok, and she'll let us see D still.

So know we are all waiting, hoping, praying, that the phone will ring and we'll finally be able to fill our empty cribs, empty car seats, and our empty hearts.

We jump every time the phone rings, and wait to hear if it's a social worker calling to tell us a baby need us, because we need them.

~Brianna

"For I know th plans I have for you,"declares the Lord",
plans to prosper you and not to harm you,
plans to give you hope and a future".
Jeremiah 29-10-12