Done Deal

Many happenings around these parts lately: Dani's adoption is now officially completed and she is now a bonafide Slate. We were lucky enough to end up having it scheduled on her third birthday, October 17th and had a plethora of folks that have played an important part in her life join us in the courtroom for the ceremony. The judge even decided we should sing 'Happy Birthday' to her before it was all said and done.

Many of you know that my brother Joel and his wife Hannalize welcomed the newest Slate, Tyler Jay, into the family on October 30th. He had been trying to escape his confines for two weeks and although he made his entrance into this realm a bit early, he's doing well and enjoying teaching his new parents about the joys of never sleeping through the night again....hehehehe.....

All of the boys moved on to adoptive placements or alternative foster placements by the end of August so we were quiet around here for a couple of weeks. True-to-form the phone started ringing and we quickly went right back up to seven kids. We now have five, including Dani, as we have a group of four sisters that will probably be here for a while. This house hasn't had a female majority for several years so I'm having to transition from trucks and superheroes to all things pink and glittery. It is NOT a smooth transition. Fluff and froo-froo is not my baliwick.

The weather has turned yucky for the most part so the chickens feel they need to live on the porches and complain because the goats pirated the chicken coop and won't share. Now the chickens own the dog kennel. Par for the course around here....nothing follows the norm!