a little overdue

So not much posting leads to a gap in my garden tours and updates.

 

So at this point this is where we are at:

 

 

These were harvested just this morning. Some cherry tomatoes. Two very tiny yellow pear tomatoes and 2 red tomatoes. To be honest I didn't even know they were growing. I had to use my machete scissors to get through the jungle of tomato plants I have growing.

 

I just snapped this pic. This is still on the vine, but I will be harvesting it in the next day or two. I'm really excited about my zucchini because I've never grown them before!

 

 

here's my zucchini and pumpkin patch. oh and onions.

did i over do it? yes.

will i ever plant onions with vine growing or crazy bushy plants. no. i've ruined most of my onions this way because they have gotten bent over. boo.

 

These were harvest about a week and half ago. we've only had the one harvest of beans so far.

first time growing them.

a perfect serving for me and my sugarplum.

 

 

And my crazy out-of-control hyped up on miracle grow tomatoes.

no seriously, i haven't even used miracle grow on these.

 

they are insane. and i don't know what to do with them. they are tied up with so much twine that it's a jungle. literally i'm pretty sure i saw a monkey sleeping on a branch.

 

next year. no cherry tomatoes.

or at least have an acre to grow one bush.

 

 

First meeting!

So I've decided to finally write about the first meeting that I had with our adoption specialist.

Of course it won't be nearly as cool as the original post I did, but I need to get SOMETHING down. Before I forget more than I already have.

 

So in a nutshell:

 

It went great.

She came and she was awesome.

Immediately I knew that she was the right person for us to work with. SO happy about that.

 

We sat down at the table. I of course FORGOT was too anxious and nervous and didn't offer her a glass of water until she had talked so much her was drier than the Mojave desert and she had to ask for one.

mortified. ugh.

 

I did send her off with some homemade chocolate chip cookies, hoping that made up for it.

 

but my feelings.. well to be honest i've forgotten some. which i didn't want that to happen because i wanted to write this blog so that i could chronicle our experience, my experience. and feelings so that I wouldn't forget.

and guess what has happened?!?

 

So from what I can remember I felt overwhelmed.

She went over our schedule and I was given a lot of paperwork.

 

I had some questions and so did she. What I didn't know was that this was considered our first interview and I of course thought afterwards that I could have had better answers! I wasn't prepared, but was more nervous then anything. I think that if I was prepared I would have sounded like a crazy person!

 

I wish that I could remember more. Rowan behaved well. The specialist was great. I feel like she is the right fit for us. Which is exactly what I need because this whole process is intimidating and scary!

 

So at the end of the meeting we were given some homework:

1. read or watch three videos on adoption {I have already read two books and have three more books coming in through amazon next week}
2. get past three years of tax returns
3. rowan's immunizations charts submitted {done!}
4. complete autobiographies {Jessica done!}
5. find 4 references! {in the process}
6. start on our family photo profile book
7. Research medical conditions - what we are willing to accept - fill out form

So our list is different than others. In the fact that bubba is deployed and won't be back until December. So we have a shorter list for now to work on while he is gone.

We do of course have our entire to do list, which is so long you don't even want to know right now, but this is our shortened list for the meantime.