In the Beginning

In the beginning, Dan & Kelly met each other as geeky 7th graders. We fell in love & after many, many breakups we decided no one else would have us, so let's get married! After getting married, I was ready to have kids instantly! Dan's plan was to have kids 5 years into the marriage. Well...1 year and 3 months after we were married, Noah(now 7) arrived! We always had talked about having a big family. However, a miscarriage and a stillborn child later, we were fearful that maybe God didn't want us to have a big family. We were pleasantly surprised when I unexpectantly got pregnant with Isaac (now 3-almost 4). The pregnancy with Isaac was (while very, very wanted) stressful, exhausting, terrifying, and required a TON of medical intervention. I had my tubes tied after Isaac was born-we decided that the risk of losing another child was too great & too much for me to handle. We decided to enjoy having two boys & see what God had in store for us later. Once Isaac turned 3, my pregnancy itch kicked back in. I WANTED a baby more than almost anything in the world. We investigated international adoption, infant adoption, etc. but decided we could not afford $30,000-$40,000. For heaven's sake, my husband is a pastor-that is what he makes a year & will ALWAYS make a year! So...after much fear we decided to look into foster care adoption. We joined forces with Project 1.27. Project 1.27 is an awesome organization whose goal is to decrease the amount of kids in Colorado waiting for their forever family. We have filled out more paperwork than you can imagine, been fingerprinted numerous times (amazing, but true), been background checked, poked, prodded, and have jumped through hoops but we are now the proud prospective adoptive parents of Jasmine, Brian, and Shamie. The purpose of this blog is for me to journal my days and their craziness. The kids are 7, 6, 4, 3, and 2 years old. I spend my days wiping snot, wiping bottoms, putting out mini-fires, doing laundry, reading books, feeding an army, and the list goes on and on. I am, by nature, an extremely sarcastic person. This blog will probably always have a sarcastic tone to it. I think this blog will be more for me than anyone else. My days, like I said above, are busy & very frustrating sometimes. Meshing together two families into one is hard enough but throw in a mess of issues due to abandonment and you've got yourself quite a party! I think once I get a lot of the stuff down that frustrates ME I will realize it is actually pretty funny. I mean, really, what isn't funny about a boy whose talent is peeing with no hands and another who needs to strip down to nothing to go the bathroom and then misses the toilet completely-every time! It doesn't seem funny when I'm cleaning up the messes but I wouldn't change my life for anything in the world.