Busy March

       I can not believe I did not post once in March, we had a very busy month.  Art and I finished our "PRIDE" classes, the last step in our foster license through the state of Michigan.  Now that those are out of the way they were able to finish our homestudy report and it was sent in last week to Lansing for approval.  No we do not want to foster or foster to adopt we want to adopt a sibling that their parental rights are already terminated but we still need a foster license.  It makes no sense to me but we did it and now we are just waiting (as usual) to here of any possible children, we are still on the infant adoption list (that is a joke) but miracles do happen, not to us but that is a whole other can of worms.
      We were called two weeks ago on two children, a young lady (9)  and young man (10) both Art and I agreed that was a little too old.  I am ok missing the first steps, diapers, and first words but I would really like to experience with one of my children their first day of school.  So we passed on those two and God help us that we made the right decision.  We may be kicking ourselves at Christmas time when we are still with no children and those two could have been ours.
     Atleast my bad health, 4H, and new animals have been keeping us busy.  I was hospitalized for 8 days and off work for three weeks total.  I am doing much better now but man was I sick, lost a lot of weight (still have a lot to go) and still not back to eating 100% but doing better.  I had c-diff on top of some other still unknown GI issue and a sinus infection.  So still on alot of medications and still going through tests.  With our 4H club we have been working hard raising money, building a pig/goat barn, and educating the kids.  I can not wait to have children and be involved in 4H with them, I love watching these parents work along side their kids.  I do get jealous but it still puts a smile on my face watching the families work together.  I bought a Mama goat and brought home her two babies, Smokey and Bandit.  Smokey is the Canfield kids goat and Bandit and Mama Melinda are mine.  I will be milking Mama Melinda goat as soon as the milking stand is built and I wean her babies off Mama Melinda was sick with intestinal worms so that was a whole fiasco in itself.  Then if I didn't think things were crazy enough I brought home a foster dog, Daphne, she left for her forever home 4 days later.  So I thought let's try again, Gabby, not a good idea....Gabby left 3 days later because she did not like Arthur (who doesn't like Arthur?), she wouldn't let him in the house.  So I think I will take a break from fostering dogs for awhile.
    So still waiting for our phone call on our children, still working (no winning lotto tickets here), and still loving farm life.