This was a fun day...

Here was a picture of one of those fun days, the kids found this huge caterpillar/tomato worm in the driveway after our softball tournament.

Today we joined our friends at their church today, shared lunch with them and their friends and had a wonderful time. Both of the families that we had lunch with have foreign exchange students and I'm interested in trying the same thing. I asked my husband about it tonight and he's supportive but doesn't really understand my reasons. Well it's really rather simple, I'm alone here and need something to do, something worthwhile, something with meaning and purpose, something that will be remembered, and I've always wanted to adopt but that's not an option yet, so this is the next best thing to trying out new energy in the house. I'm afraid of doing foster care because of all the horror stories, and being a foster kid myself, it's not the greatest way to come into a family (the us and them thing doesn't work for me).

So I took a look at the web site and I think a girl from Germany would be a good fit for us. Not too crazy of a culture shock and our family has some German roots on both sides. I have some favorites and I think it would be cool to try this out from January till June or the equivalent of a semester, at least as a first time.

There's a part of me that is really excited, especially if this were to happen. And having a little time to mentally prepare the kids is great too. Cleaning the rooms, decluttering the extra stuff, and teaching them our family does these things together, I even want them in the selection process. So hopefully this blog will be a bit more optimistic, as things are looking up. One of my favorite sayings as of late has been, "It's hard seeing the forest from the trees." And it has been harder but I think I'm over the hump now. It's okay to see what you're made of from time to time, it's the only way to realize how good you have it sometimes. And I do have it pretty good.