Help!

Thats the sound of Ben from the bathroom. He snuck in there to "wash his hands" which usually involves taking toys in there to wash them too. Don't worry he's fine. He just had so much soap on his hands he couldn't open the door. The boy tends to panic. It's not a bad trait in a 4-year old really. Keeps them from getting too deep over their head.



I knew darn well he was up to no good but I was just about to launch my blog for the first time and was actually glad that he was going to entertain himself for a few moments while I got this thing started. Of course that was also the reason I let him buy mooon sand (of all the stupid things) today. I thought for sure he would be entertained but no. Moon sand somehow is just not fun to do without Mommy sitting next to you. No, despite the fact that he has been begging for moon sand for months. Ever since he found out he got money for xmas he's been dying to spend it and settled on moon sand. Ok, he still has lots of money left but I told him that he spent it all becasue he was driving me mad. I suppose I should have given him yet another lecture on how we don't spend all our money but I've done that for three days now and he still wanted to spend his money. So the next time he asks to buy something I get to tell him he spent his money. Then he'll launch into a campaign to earn money. He wanted to have a garage sale in November and he suggested that we open a lemonade stand on the day of the huge ice/snow storm that dumped six inches on us. The boy is ready to work I'm just not up to it.



Where is he now you ask. Why watching "WowWow Wubbsy" of course. Hey, I'd send him out to play except we are having the great meltdown here. Rather matches my mood. Over the last four days we've had rain and warm temps enough to melt 2 feet of snow (almost). It is not a pretty site. Especially when you have a dog and a fenced yard. Say no more, know what I mean.



So back to my reason for starting this blog. Well as you all should know we've been waiting about two years to bring our daughter home from Nepal. She is at the same orphange (Bal Mandir) that Ben was. For the last ten months or so adoptions have been stopped so we've just been quietly going insane here waiting for adoptions to start again. The slow spiral into insanity is really interesting but I'll leave that for another posting. Over the last few weeks the committee has begun meeting again and has (and this is really hard to believe) actually processed over 200 files. So really the call can come any day now for us to travel to Nepal to finally bring Sarina home. I"ve actually started packing and that is a huge deal because I"m a big believer in Murphy's law which in my life goes something like "the minute I think something good is going to happen and really start to believe it will happen and actually start planning as if it will happen then all hell will break lose." Which explans why the Maoists have suddenly returned to the government in Nepal and they've sworn in a new (Maoist) Minister at the Ministry where my file should be waiting to be signed right now as I type. Coincidence? I think NOT! My prediction is that the Minister will shortly be leaving on a whirlwind trip around Europe and the US and will neglect to leave someone in charge of signing the files. Why you may ask. Because every damn new Minister in that post (even the interim Minister) has done exactly that. Oh I forgot and then they quit within six months. I really think they offer the position this way. "Say Bahai-ji what do you think of being the Minister of Women, Children and Social Welfare?" "Raamrochaina (not good)!" "But you will get an all expense paid trip to anywhere in the world Bahai-ji." "Ah, Raamro! I will do it for six months but I must travel for 5 of those months." "Raamro!"



My son has found me. He says "Everyone is good at something." He is now singing "EVERYONE CAN BE A STAR". Help!