It's Official!

Our walk through was today. Not really what I expected. I've spent most of the week getting Jarrod's room ready and cleaning the house. When the social worker got here she walked in the door, asked to see Jarrod's room, said everything looked great and left. She didn't even peek at mine and Danny's bedroom (which is still the messiest room in the house) and barely looked at any of the other rooms. I'm just relieved that Jarrod's room is ok. The previous owners used it as an office but in the real estate description it was listed as a bedroom. It does have a closet and built in drawers but it doesn't have a window and there's a door to the garage off one side. The social worker didn't say anything about any of that though. She actually said it was a really nice room, yay me for getting it ready!

So now it's official, Jarrod will be coming to stay the night tomorrow. I'm nervous and excited. I hope him and Ashton get along and Ashton doesn't bug him too much. I think we'll stop by the store on the way home from picking him up to get things for dinner and breakfast and lunch Sunday. He's diabetic but I think his diabetes is worse than Danny's so we'll need to watch the sugar and carb content closer. We don't usually go too overboard with sweets though so we should be ok.

I should have a bunch of pictures to post after the visit, I'll just have to make sure to not keep putting off uploading them.

Quick Update

Danny and I went to Jarrod's 8th grade gradution on Monday and then had a nice dinner with his foster mom and his mom's family. Actually his mom and her family pretty much ignored us but that made it nice, no bickering. I took some pictures and will try to get them posted soon.

Our walk through has been scheduled for Friday at noon. Danny has been having Friday's off but because of Memorial Day he'll be working this Friday so I'll be the only one here. Jarrod's room is almost ready, I just need to move a few boxes out of the closet and move the old treadmill out of there. The house needs a good cleaning too so I'll be busy with that tomorrow. Hopefully all of this hard work will pay off and Jarrod will be able to start doing some weekend or overnght visits with us soon. I have no idea how much work goes into getting approved to foster parent but I have a feeling that what we've been doing is pretty close to the foster approval process.

Saturday we'll be going to visit Jarrod again. His Boy Scout troop is going to be in a Memorial Day parade and we told him that we'd come and bring Ashton with us (Ashton didn't get to go with us Monday). He seemed really excited about finally getting to meet Ashton and Ashton keeps talking about when Jarrod gets to come visit us. Hopefully the excitement continues after the visits start and we don't run into too many problems.

Long Time No Blog

It's been awhile since I've done a blog post. I've thought about writing one a couple of times but procrastinated to the point that I forgot what I was going to write about. Really things have been pretty much the same in IF land. I'm wanting to have my second surgery soon but money is making me put it off for awhile. We're going to be doing a program with our mortgage company to try to get our house payments lowered, Danny is looking into getting a cheaper car and we're trying to find other ways to cut costs. Unfortunately it looks like we'll probably be filing for bankruptcy soon though. We have a lot more money going out than coming in right now. I hate to resort to bankruptcy but I also don't want to lose the house and both the cars.

Danny has continued his visits with Jarrod. At one visit Jarrod asked the social worker on his case when he'd be able to do some unsupervised visits and she told him that he'll probably get to do unsupervised visits with us before he gets to do any with his mom and step-dad. I got to go to last Monday's visit and might get to go to his 8th grade graduation tonight. Danny and Jarrod are so much alike, they sat and talked about cars the whole hour. It will be great to have Jarrod come here but I'm not sure my brain will be able to handle all of the guy talk. We did a parenting class on Friday to meet one of the requirements of Jarrod's case plan. Now we just need to have someone come do a walk through of our house and we should be good to go with unsupervised visits.

Ashton lost another tooth a couple of weeks ago. We went to Kindergarten orientation and he seems really excited to start school in August. He says he wants to play baseball this summer but I haven't had any luck finding a program for his age group.

My fitness efforts have just not been happening. I have a big problem with motivation and temptation. I love sweets and all things not good for me food wise and can't seem to get myself to love exercise (although that's probably because I haven't made a real effort to get any kind of schedule going). It's gotten to the point though that if I don't lose some weigh I'm going to have to buy new clothes and I don't have the money for that.