8 months

well close enough to 8 months....only 3 days early. my life is fixin to get real busy so i'm posting it now since the posts from now on maybe few and far between.

i officially start college today.....big gulp. i have to do an orientation course first and then my first offical class starts on dec 28th....double big gulp. i don't know if i'm ready for this but i have to try.

my sister has been approved for disability...which is a miracle. this also means the kids qualify for benefits so we will be getting a check every month to help with food, clothes, and all the hundreds of things growing kids need. Praise God!!!!

my sister will be here on monday and then we get to tell the kids the happy news that she will be moving to town. just pray this will work out. all the adults agree we will keep the kids indefinately. mark has put his foot down and told all parties involved that freddie will live with us until she graduates from high school. she graduates in 2009. she will not like this decision but she has been bounced around so much from place to place and school to school. she told me the other day that she has moved 25 times in the last 10 years. we will set up visitation with my sister so they will be getting to spend nights and weekends with her on a regular basis once she has a permanant address. for right now she will stay in a shelter until housing becomes available. not a perfect solution but workable. pray for us that we will continually have the mind of Christ with the raising of all our children.