To my surprizement...

Jack was recounting an event that occured today, that he was not expecting. He THOUGHT the truth was one thing, but realized "much to my suprizement" it was something else. Darned if I can remember the rest of the story because it would be so much more amusing in its entirety but that's the line that stuck out.

It's been a rumbling kinda week here. My weeks fly by... I "only" work three days a week - if you're counting by calendar dates, not hours. I was insanely busy this week so they passed by so quickly... besides, three days is three days, even if I'm slow, it's a pretty short work week. (before you get jealous, I work two 12 hour days in the office, one 8-9 hour day and do paperwork and the like at home on my "days off", so it's not a cushy p/t job). Weekends go by quickly anyway, even if they are four days long... the end result is time is flying so fast, I can't keep up. I'm forever saying "Was that already a week ago?" or "Wasn't that LAST week?" when infact two or three have passed.

So the happenings to my suprizement this week as highlighed in RED:

1. I have not been frequenting the RQ site since my temper tantrum earlier in the week. I will allow myself to "check in" once a day or so to read if there is any worthy news, but I don't read any more than that. Surprizingly (or not) I'm feeling much more calm and relaxed about the whole situation. Coincidence? Time will tell.

2. Course, I am reading other sites. One of them is a Yahoo group for Canadian families who are or have been involved in the Waiting Child programme (Green stream, SN, tomato/tomato). By piecing together information, it is my understanding that two agencies in Canada are liscenced to participate in the WCP - Children's Bridge (our agency) and one further West that goes by FOI, which stands for Family-something-something, I think. Apparently FOI was also NOT included in the "30" agencies. However, and also apparently, they JUST received a group of files and are in the process of translating them. And more apparently, they received files in December as well. This can't be anything but good news for us... it can't HURT, and it could be good - I mean if THEY get files, there's a chance we could too, right???

3. For some strange reason, I'm hopeful these days. April feels like THE month. I shouldn't allow this optomism to happen - even my contact at CB tells me it's most likely that the April deadlines will be postponed, but somehow it just FEELS right. It FEELS like it may happen, and April FEELS lucky. But, remember folks, I've never won a lottery - if I was so intuitive, I'd be rich by now, right?

In other news...

4. We're STILL reluctant to put poop in the toilet. PJ is fully pee trained, so we've dropped the reinforcement for peeing and left it only for the poops. She'll announce the requirements; "a totowut tip for a poop in the towut, not in me unnerwears". No chocolate chips yet.

5. It's been a year that the boys have shared a room. They've ALWAYS had trouble falling asleep in the same room. They fight all day and turn to best of friends when they "go to bed". We've tried everything from letting them play/talk as long as they want, with the thought that the novelty will wear off as they get more tired to pouncing on thier first sounds after the door is closed thinking they'd get the message that it wouldn't be tolerated... and none of it has worked. Our new plan is having them EARN their electronics - tv, video games and computer - by staying in the same room. As of now, with them quiet upstairs tonight, they are 2 for 4, which is better than typical but far from where we want them to be.

6. As I watch the Oscars mostly b/c of Jon Stewart, Russel Crowe says "For anyone who is on the downside of advantage, and relying fully on courage, it's possible"

Bring on the last week of February!!! I hate this month, and can't wait until it's over. Bring on March and SPRING!

N