We had our foster child placed yesterday. We are not allowed to give a whole lot of specifics out as foster parents, especially online, so please forgive a lack of specifics. She is _______ and has a beautiful ________ and the sweetest __________ . I am not really sure what we can or cannot say.

The Mysterious Anika

The Mysterious Anika

Let’s say we call her Anika for anonymity. Anika would work good with Mason, Bowen & Adelaine so let’s call her Anika. She comes from a loving family and has been placed with us. She behaves so well, that we may send Bowen for the overnight visit to Anika’s family. Just kidding Bowen.

Adelaine is so happy, she finally has a best friend living with her in bunk beds just like her guys. They get along swimmingly (what a strange word). Anika slept on the bottom bunk and Daisy spent the night snuggling with her.

Usually, Daisy sleeps on my head or on my feet or just generally wedged up against me, so the relief is nice. She is not a big dog, but I like to sleep unencumbered (today is big word day)

I was not always that way. Angela often gives me grief about my previous sleeping partner. I would wake up to spooning (or “Making Spoons” Pulp Fiction reference) before we started dating. Yes. I admit. I often awoke to spooning with my german shepherd Cosmic. That may be the reason he was never allowed in the house. Jealousy. Or maybe it was the hair. That dog shed while he walked, sat, ran, or just generally lived. He was like Pig Pen from The Peanut Gang. Only Cosmic had hair circling him rather than dirt.

Back to the quads. Yep. 4 kids. That is a lot. I want the surgery now and a bag of frozen peas for after.

Nice even number.
2 boys
2 girls
6 seats in the vehicle
3 bedrooms – wait that is not even. I guess we need a 4 or 6 bedroom house. 8 bedrooms is too many, but 8 is my average score per hole of golf. Par 5 that’s not so bad. Par 3 – ouch.

We are going to the hockey game Monday night. The Dallas Stars are in town and we are hoping to get to say hi to Brad Richards. I spoke to his assistant Kasey yesterday and Brad is not certain of his travel schedule as of yet. Brad leads the Stars players in Points.

The girls just finished lunch. I hear them giggling at the kitchen table. I wish I could share pictures and video with you today, but that will have to wait. It will be like a mystery to be revealed later. Kinda like Scooby Doo only no bad guys that say, “If it weren’t for those kids and that mangy mut…” then we will jump into the Mystery Machine and go get some Scooby snacks.

Speaking of Mystery Machine the car insurance was up for renewal today. Our provider wanted to raise the cost with no accidents or tickets, just to say Thank You for being a good client I guess. So I decided to check into a better rate.

I found this site which I entered the information into and bammo, I got 6 quotes from 6 different companies and went with the cheapest, which happened to be Progressive. This quote was $30 less than we were paying with Geico and $45 less than if we stayed with gieco. (gotta pay for the cavemen, the gecko and now the money with eyeballs commercials I guess.) Before I clicked to buy, I went straight to Progressive and they wanted SIGNIFICANTLY more than through this multi quote site. Like $200 more for 6 months! Click Here to go to the site.

If nothing else do it to make yourself feel good about the rate you’re getting today. I guess that when the insurance companies know they are competing they will give you a better rate.

Tonight is Tae Kwon Do / Chung Do Kwan. Their site is http://www.pctkdo.com It is located in the old transformed sanctuary of a growing church in our community. Yes, they pray for you before they break your bones. PCT actually won a big tournament in Florida. Master Mike Conaway is a nice guy that could tear me in half before I knew what was happening.

The Grand Opening of a new Publix across the street from the Church is tonight. This Publix is in an old Albertsons grocery store that closed last year. Albertsons and Jewel are related. My first job was bagging groceries at Jewel. Those brown plaid ties were horrible. I made $3.65 an hour at the age of 14. I was rollin.

It Was Cold getting Carts in the Winter

It Was Cold getting Carts in the Winter

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