Tuesday, April 27, 2010

my house is spic and span!

we have our last home study meeting today, which includes our interview as a couple, inspection of our home and an interview of R. i'm not really all that nervous about the actual interview, which may be a bad thing?!? i'm definitely much more apathetic this time around compared to our foster/adopt home study...but i guess that's just because we're old pros now, right? hmm...

one of the biggest things that i'm worried about is this crazy amount of kentucky rain we've been getting lately, and the thought of having to keep the dogs in the house during our entire visit. if we just had yawkey, i would not be worried because he's a very sweet and mellow black lab. he would much rather be sleeping at your feet than jumping on you and excitedly trying to get your attention like our first mutt, fenway. i really hope our social worker likes dogs! we've got around 150 lbs of them ready to hang out with her this afternoon...

the other thing i'm worried about is our house looking presentable. even though i know it's not going to happen, i have a fear that our social worker will show up and want to examine every drawer, closet and nook and cranny of our house. this fear has totally cramped my normal style of cramming things in closets and cabinets until company leaves :) despite a very busy weekend, i have been working during any free moments since friday on trying to get things straightened up, which proved to be quite a challenge! cleaning doesn't go as smoothly as it used to now that we have a nearly walking, almost 1 year old and a 13 year whose idea of helping is picking up 1 dirty sock from his floor and playing video games. thankfully, my sweet momma came over last night and really did help me quite a bit. it only took her a good 2 hours to clean R's bathroom, and her only comment was that "boys are gross!". ryan helped quite a bit too and pulled daddy duty last night so i could work without P on my hip all night.

stupidly, i also decided to work the past 2 weeks on transforming a spare room in our basement into my new sewing and crafting domain! i'll have to post some pictures of my new space sometime when i think of it. it's by no means perfect, but it has been quite an undertaking and is all MINE! ryan keeps sarcastically asking me what it feels like to have my own room and saying how nice that must be. to that i say, "get over it" :) i'm the only girl in the house of 3 human boys and 2 doggie boys, so i deserve my own retreat space! plus, it's right next to the laundry room so i can get some clothes washed while i'm working...oh the joys of a full-time homemaker and wife :)
here goes nothing...wish us luck!!

1 comments:

jody said...

You go girl! No luck needed! You're got the Big Guy on your side!!!

Can't wait to see your space!