October will be busy!

October 1st is finally here. This month will be a big one for our family. A lot of things happening with our kids foster cases that will determine their futures.

First, we have a review hearing for Little Guy & Baby Girl on Oct. 2. I'm anticipating that they will set a termination date at this hearing, so that they kids can become legally free and we can start the adoption process for them. So far, the parents have had no contact with the kids since Baby Girl was 2 days old. It's sad to say that - I would fight tooth and nail for them!

Second, we have Little Man's termination hearing on Oct. 15 & 16. It will be a full two-day trial, going over the case from the very beginning until present. I'm sure there will be a lot of testimony that will reveal things I've never known, so I'm definitely going to be sitting in that courtroom for two days. I will be so relieved when this part is done - we've waited a long time for Little Man to become legally free so that we can adopt him. We were told in June 2006, when we brought him home, that we should be able to adopt him by that Christmas. And here it is, more than a year later, and 2-1/2 years since he became a foster child, that we are finally at this point. It's a relief!

Hubby has two hunting trips scheduled for this month, so hopefully he'll get his deer one of those weekends. But that means two weekends in a row I've got the kids all by myself! I'm sure I'll be ready to check into the loony bin afterward! Pray for me!

I'm hosting our MOMS Club bunco night at my house one of the weekends that Hubby is hunting. 16 ladies in my little house - yikes! But it should be lots of fun!

Hubby's birthday is on Halloween, and my mom's birthday is on the 29th, so I'm having a family birthday party here on the 28th. I'm sure that will be interesting! It's always loud and crazy when my family gets together!

My grandma is making the kids their Halloween costumes this year - all characters from the Wizard of Oz. Little Man will be the Tin Man, Little Guy the scarecrow, and Baby Girl will be Dorothy. I think it will be so cute! We'll take the kids to our church's Harvest Party, and we've also got some trick-or-treating scheduled at the mall and with my Mom's Club at a senior center. We are also taking them to the Foster Kids Harvest Party on the 13th.

So, this will be a busy month, and hopefully, a very good month! Please keep our family in your prayers, for the court cases to be successful, and for the Lord's will to be done in those courtrooms. We just want to be able to call these kids our own, legally. They've been ours in our hearts for quite a while, but it will be nice to put some permanency behind those feelings.