Home Study Update meeting

We heard from Pat (the social worker who is doing our update) Thursday afternoon (5:00ish) and found out that she wanted to meet with us this weekend, preferably early Saturday morning. I was able to convince her that Sunday afternoon (3:30ish) would be better. So, she should be at our house around 3:30 Sunday (May 16) to meet with us and go over any changes that have happened since our first Home Study meeting. Shouldn't take too long, not a lot to report. Okay, the fact that we have $26,000 in the bank is a GREAT update to report! Thanks to family, we were able to get there!! Chris' Wal-Mart paychecks are also helping (about $450 every two weeks). I will add $270 after next weekend (I am delivering cinnamon rolls & catering a graduation party). Oh, and our IRS refund came in today. That is going to pay for the Home Study Update and getting the air ducts cleaned out this summer.

I was really praying that I would have a large amount to deposit today, but the rain made it impossible! Liz & I had scheduled to be at a craft show in the Heights area today (scheduled it several months ago) and when we were there in October, we both did really well. Liz sold 5 of her toy cloth balls and that was it! The forecast in Houston was 40% of scattered showers. We had RAIN (not showers) starting at 9:30ish and it never stopped! It did seem to lighten up several times, but when the lightening & thunder showed up around noon, we decided that it was time to go. Over half of the vendors had already packed up or were in the process of packing up at that time. At least we got the rest of the afternoon (after lunch & two shopping stops) to get things better organized & packed back up. Now, I just need to finish drying my blankets (about half got semi-soaked) and they will be ready to go back to Liz's house for storage (at least until they sell).

Anyway, God has & still is blessing us tremendously!

Now to eat some dinner, clear off the dining table, put stuff in the garage for storage and finish cleaning for our visit with Pat tomorrow. Probably another night of little to no sleep (okay I will probably get about 5 hours), but it will (and is) so worth it!!!!

Oh yeah, only 12.5 school days left (weekends don't count)!!!