Quinn is officially moved into college as of Saturday....well it's all fancy since Brian and I graduated and now considered a university! Move-in day went without a hitch seeing that we've done this now 5 times seeing that she is the 5th child, however the excitement never wears off! She seems to really be enjoying her new found freedom and sleepless late nights with new friends so can't ask for anything better.
We ended up staying in Erie Friday through Sunday for the whole weekend since it also happened to be a reunion weekend with friends from college. It was nice that we still have friends in Erie so we were drifters and spent Friday with a friend then Saturday at another friends and saved on the hotel expense.
We frequented our old stomping grounds of bars/clubs.
While also hitting up old time favorite local restaurants!
We stayed out and up way too late considering we live pretty boring lives now of going to bed around 10 p.m. We stayed out until 2 a.m. dancing the night away and catching up with friends. We were reminded that we are not 18 years old any more and able to be out and about until wee hours of the morning without repercussions of exhaustion the next entire day however it was worth it for the weekend of fun we had. We are officially in recovery mode trying to regain our lack of sleep and get back on schedule!
Sunday afternoon to the land for the night into the holiday at the land. We had to pick our dogs up that were being watched for the weekend there and decided last minute to spend the night.
We enjoyed our time with the family as usual though it was a short stay for us. Elise bought GT a Thomas the tank engine smock so we decided to send her a picture of us all enjoying the "train"!
We came home in time to harvest some vegetables that ripened over the weekend. I picked ready vegetables before I left Friday and just over the weekend we harvested quite a bit!
Growing strong!
Tomatoes are growing like crazy! I have a ton of tomatoes in our fridge that is becoming tomato sauce come this week. First tomato sauce making experience so keeping fingers crossed it will be at least edible!
Just when we thought our strawberries were coming to an end we come back to find countless flowers that will soon become nice ripe strawberries!
Brian my hand model showing off our harvest today. Looks like green beans for dinner!
We are also excited to see my angel trumpet tree finally has some flowers getting ready to open up and bloom! I have had this tree that started off as a tiny twig since I was a sophomore in high school so for 9 years now and it is finally getting ready to produce the flowers I've been impatiently waiting for! We used a cutting from it to grow another tree which produced a few flowers last year except it never did through the summer or fall but only once we put them in our basement for over the winter did we finally see the beautiful flowers. Better late than never huh?!?! We are elated to see so many and hoping for them to bloom soon. I've been in awe at the man who gave me my first tree as his are always blooming like crazy but perhaps this is just a sign that it is finally mature enough!
We also had an unofficial update into our whole becoming foster parents journey. We are near the last leg of our journey until we can have placements and while we have been completely certified and approved for a while now, our county has this one course they insist we need to take before they will start calling with potential placements (not state rules but county preference). We heard through the grapevine of another family that we did our pre-service training with and have kept in touch with that the course is this upcoming Saturday the 7th. Did we have any knowledge of this? Nope! Last we were told was 4 weeks ago that it was still tentatively the 21st and if it changes that our resource manager would call us and get us registered ahead of time. So finding this out last Thursday I called our resource manager that early afternoon and left a message and shot her an email. After not hearing from her Thursday or Friday we find ourselves stuck with today being a day off for the holiday. I'm giving her until tomorrow at 10 a.m. to return my call before I end up just calling her supervisor to get some answers and clarification. Seeing that come tomorrow it is only 4 days away from the actual class date we've been told about, we are wondering when our resource manager intended on telling us the class is this Saturday?!?! The next class is not until December therefore what a shame it would have been to miss this because of an oversight of our resource manager who is in charge of keeping us updated and in the loop. It's a shame we had to hear about the class via another family instead of by the entity in which we are working with. So we are keeping our fingers crossed that it is indeed this weekend and that we can be registered and attend the class. It is our very last thing we need checked off our list before we can start receiving placement calls. The 21st seemed so far away but now knowing the class is likely 5 days away from now it suddenly became so real!
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