Home Study is HERE!......

.....but it is wrong.
And the things that are wrong are not minor things (like how old my sister is when she has very limited contact with us because of age and geographic distance) but fairly major things...like citing the number of children we have, how many live at home, and how many you have interviewed. and those numbers don't add up!
So, we are back to the waiting for the homestudy game.
I hope they can get it corrected, quickly, and we can submit to USCIS before the end of January.

In other news:
Matt is doing fine after his tongue surgery. He seems to be healing just fine. That is so weird that they can do all of these things to his tongue, and it not affect his speech.

Jaoob is about the same. Stomach pain episodes are still down about 75%, but his aggression continues. We are looking into other avenues to help heal the trauma he experienced and help him learn better ways to deal.

Catie turned 21 yesterday. She came home from Ukraine at age 14. What a beautiful young woman she has become. We are very proud of her, and so glad to call her our daughter.

Emily starts her nursing classes in a week or so. In another year and a half we will have 2 nurses in the family.

Marie is busy, busy, busy. Planning, studying, working. Ahhh, to have the energy of youth! Marie and I are both working on our degrees...she on her Bachelor's for teaching, me on my Bachelor's then Master's in Nursing. Both going through WGU, an online, fully accredited school. James is working on his homeschool stuff, Marie on her's, me on mine. At any one time, in our kitchen, James will be making us a super banana bread as he integrates math skills with home ec, I have homemade models of hemoglobin both with and without oxygen (oxygen represented by blueberries) and lysine (an amino acid, which I chose colored marshmallows to demonstrate the various component parts of) and Marie is videotaping her presentation of how a Montessori school differs from more traditional schools. Homeschooling has never been so much fun!

Everyone is healthy, and we are all waiting for silly winter to go away and the warmth of spring to appear. Full blown cabin fever should be about 2 weeks away.

Mary