Homestudy

We meet our new social worker today and had our updated homestudy.  She was very nice and it went very well and very fast.  We always feel so normal during these meetings, how can they not approve us :)  I have even been cleaning our house for the past week for the big day.  Last time we had the social worker come to our house for the homestudy she went through the whole house.  This time she only made it as far as the kitchen.  I almost wanted to make her go through the house just so it wouldn't be a waste of a good clean.
The timeline might take longer than I was hoping because once she approves us it then goes to the AB govt for approval.  The govt is a little behind so it tends to take 4-6 weeks before the homestudys get approved.  I am hoping with ours being an addendum it might not take as long

Chinese food, Karate Kid and fortune cookies

Every Friday is family night.  We take turns having our weekend and that person gets to pick the dinner and movie on Friday night and also gets to pick what we do at West Edmonton Mall (waterpark, mini golf, bowling, amusement park and of course I pick shopping).  Tonight was my night and it was also a week before the social worker comes for the homestudy.  We still hadn't told the boys we were going to precede with adopting a little girl.  We didn't want to tell them too soon because we didn't want to get their hopes up if it wasn't going to happen (they knew when we started the process and then we had to tell them a couple of years ago that we didn't think it was possible).  We couldn't wait any longer because now that the social worker is coming the boys have to know.
I thought a fun way to tell them would be to go with a Chinese theme and pick Chinese food for the dinner and rent The Karate Kid.  I also made new fortunes to stick in the fortune cookies.  I wanted them to sound like real fortunes so for Hayden it was "make a wish for something you really want"(Hayden has been telling me the last few months how badly he wants a little sister), Tristan's "you will become a great protector", Quintin's "with love a family will grow" and Jason's "Money is not the road of happiness" (because he is more concerned with the cost of the adoption than I am-lol).  I was so excited and couldn't wait for them to read them and wonder and than we could tell them about the adoption.  Well the fortune cookies didn't go the way I planned.  I couldn't get the other fortunes out so the boys ended up focusing on the three fortunes in the cookie and Quintin even told me he would keep two of the fortunes but I could have the crap one (which of course was the one I wrote).  Then we read Hayden's and asked him what he wished for, he wished for a toy story t-shirt!  I figured it was not the time to tell them
Jason saw my disappointed and said I gave them too much credit.  With boys you have to hit them over the head.  The fortune cookies should have said "you are going to have a baby sister"
Before the movie we sat the boys down and told them the exciting news.  They are very happy and especially Hayden.  He is so close to the older two boys and they treat him so well but I think it will be good to have another child around that is closer to his age.
The night was a perfect night-the movie was better than the boys thought it would be, yummy food, and the best part- the boys are so excited about having a sister join our loving family.  And it is always a successful day when I learn something -I can't be subtle with the boys just as I can't with Jason, if I have something to say I have to spell it out or get the point missed
Love Family Night