Understanding Teens

It is a good no GREAT thing I have taught teenagers for the last 8 years.  It means that I knew that no one ever understands this crazy breed of people!  Yep, I don't understand these kids, especially D!  D might stand for her name, but it also stands for DRAMA QUEEN!!!  Goodness we can be happy playing, then angry mad, then throwing a tantrum, all with in 2 minutes.  We can go from hating someone, to wanting to stay at their house everyday in 2.5 seconds.  If I really thought I could understand teenagers coming into this chapter of life, I would be in for a rude awakening! 

On another note, I got in a package that had so much paperwork in it, it cost $5.32 to mail!  Yep that would be the beginning of adoption process.  The beginning of a home study.  I will look at those papers when we get into the house, I mean I can't do them all right now anyways, I have to draw a floor plan of the house or something.  We have 2 months left before I can officially adopt them.  Now we all know it can take longer, but the faster it gets done the better for all of us.  The kids have been in this process now for over 3 years, they are beyond ready. 

Overall it has been a week of getting ready to move.  BOXES BOXES and MORE BOXES!  We are taking a break tomorrow and going skating with the cousins (my sister-in-law and nieces).

Now to share a few moments that made me feel like a mother ( I mean this feeling is very new to me) :

1. Getting a text from D because she hurt herself at her grandparents house wanting to know what to do.  She needed me :)
2. T texting me the day they came back WE ARE COMING HOME TODAY!!!
3. Today T says "we have not spent quality family time together lately, I think we need to" 

Thanks to everyone who has passed on encouragement to me personally or through other people.  You will never know how much it has helped me get through this process of shock and feeling like a failure and moving forward and trying to create a feeling of family with the 2 kids God has trusted to me.